Unintentional Side Effects of Chewing Gum

For a little while after you chew gum, other foods/drinks taste dramatically different.  The gum is usually very sugary or very minty, distorting the quality of everything else.  Nothing you eat/drink lives up to the flavor of the gum so it tastes terrible by direct comparison.

I would connect this to some facet of life, but then you might think this is a serious blog.