you can say what you want about my dental hygiene (and i do need a cleaning, at least), but one thing that is always true about me is that my breath is clear. there's no secret to it - i just brush a lot. i might pick up some coffee breath sometimes, and if i've smoked recently you can usually tell, but the stereotypical "stinky ass" breath is something you'll never catch me with.
so, you can imagine it's kind of weird that i'm noticing...let's say bad tasting breath...after i brushed with the dish soap, this morning.
after i brushed with soap - not before.
can you smell your own breath? well, you've gotta do the cup-your-hand-over-your-face thing, right? you then blow directly into your nose. i guess you hope you don't have any anthrax or mad cow disease living in there. or that your teeth aren't randomly excreting cocaine.
the other thing you can do is wet the tip of your finger with your tongue and then press it up against your nose. i'm just imagining how somebody would react if they saw me do that in public right now, let alone generally.
see, that's the weird thing - it doesn't smell if i do either of these things. but, my mouth tastes the way that bad breath smells. how is that possible?
that smell is the smell of bacteria; if your breath doesn't usually smell, you've succeeded in killing the bacteria. or, at least, you've succeeded in killing the bacteria at the surface of your mouth, enough that you can't smell them.
i'm going to guess that what i did was kill a hefty batch of bacteria hiding in sneaky places, maybe even under the gumline, and the taste is that bacteria seeping out from the inside of my mouth.
yummy?
well, you don't use antibacterial toothpaste, either, do you? guess what?