Taste Shift
"What a Kelling Joke! I asked my cook for a nice roast leg of Crocodile, but this thing tastes exactly like Cabbage! What next? Is he going to spice my gruel to taste like bacon? My greens to taste of cake?! Bring him in here, my Warclub and I have a few things to say to him..." A Bugbear warlord, about to need to hire a new Chef.
Transmission & Vectors
Transmitted through blood to blood contact, or passed from parent to child.
Causes
Misfiring of the brain, in the way it interprets flavor.
Sometimes jokingly known as being 'Tongue lost'.
Symptoms
Exemplified by a complete shift of how the affected being tastes food.
Treatment
With a drastic change of diet, the disease can be managed. While this does not actually cure or treat the illness itself, it does assist the affected deal with the change, and move forward with their lives. In fact, many find that the new flavors they find in food actually can help them eat healthier things they did not enjoy before, while avoiding sweets (that incidentally may now taste like tree bark or burnt wool).
Prognosis
Once the condition is manifest, the infected being will notice a swift and seemingly random rewire of their tastebuds.
What is certain is that all affected creatures experience this change differently, no two have exactly the same changes.
The affected creature may now find that Beef tastes like burnt bread, or that Carrots now taste of raw sugar. This is not fatal or particularly dangerous, but it is seen as inconvenient and disconcerting.
Hosts & Carriers
Goblinoids, Orcs and Half Orcs.
Epidemiology
Spread either through family lines (typically skipping 2 to 3 generations), or by blood to blood contact with an infected individual.
History
This disease has always plagued Goblin and Orc cultures, but tends to be rare.
Cultural Reception
Inconvenient, but not lethal.
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