pine nuts

so, does anyone eat a lot of pine nuts? we do. nick does not eat meat so we are always doling out misc protein items and one of his favs are nuts. so we measure out his pine nuts, toast em up and they are yum! a few nights ago i toasted up a bunch to have extra on a salad...well mike was at work late and the salad never happened so i ate a handful of pine nuts.....fast forward a few hours and i have a horrible bitter/metallic taste in my mouth (this was monday, still have it sunday)...i recall mike having had this same phenomenon a few weeks ago....likely when he got home in time to have me actually make a salad....i brought this coincidence to his attention and he said "huh". i however was not going to let this little thing lie, so being somewhat of a nancy drew/matlock/macgyver aficionado (not to mention heart to heart!) and since we have goggle!! i thought i would check it out...sure enough it was pine nuts......apparently they can do this, especially pine nuts from china......and low and behold where do you think costco gets the pine nuts for its 5 lb bags that sell for $1.99???? good thing it only makes food taste funny and not bevvies. shit i wonder how much pignoli sell for at broders.......bring on the slivered almonds.