I just cut my gums with dental floss without really realizing it and got a mouthful of my own blood. It had a metallic but otherwise indescribably awful taste.
How the hell do those damn vampires and devil worshippers do it?
Ever swallowed some of your own blood? If so, care to put a description on the taste?
Ever swallowed anyone else’s? You have? Sicko…
Holy shit I was JUST thinking that is been a LONG time since I’ve seen aha around!
Blood… yeah… wouldnt want to drink a quart of it. Slightly metallic like you said. Non offensive.
Hella good dripping out of a thick steak.
I don’t know Whammo mine tasted like shit…wait… maybe that’s not an apt description… biologically speaking.
My automatic “ouch” reaction is to put the injured extremity in my mouth, so i taste blood every time I cut my finger or hand. Tastes kinda coppery, slightly sweet.
I never drink…blood.
Whenever I cut myself, I suck the blood and lick the wound. It’s instinctual. I found out after a while that saliva has enzymes that speed healing, so I figure that’s why I do it. I cut myself a lot, so I end up drinking a lot of my own blood, and I figure, why not? Hey, that’s material that’s not escaping my body, anyway.
What’s it taste like? I really can’t remember right now. metallic sounds about right. It’s not an unpleasant taste for me at all.
[Jack]You can swallow a pint of blood before you get sick[/Jack]
I’ve always liked the taste of my blood. I like that metallic, sour in the corners of the cheeks taste.
I was wondering where aha was too. Good to see ya 'round.
** aha!! ** just couldn’t stay away from us, couldya??? 
We were afraid you’d been rock n’ roll napped, and we’d have to break open our piggy banks to bring you back.
I’m guessing that besides the play on words, ‘damned’ vampires and ‘bedeviled’ worshippers believe that there is power in the blood, renewing their own lives, in a way. * NOT that I know for sure, you understand! * Maybe the metallic taste gives them some immunity against the silver bullets…oh never mind, that is the werewolves, isn’t it?
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I’ve only swallowed my own blood, and it had a metallic taste, unpleasant enough, that I avoid it as much as possible. 
But, I’m glad that it keeps on circulating!
Ever swallowed anyone else’s? You have? Sicko…
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I’ve swallowed more than my fair share of my own blood, I think–that happens when you’re as accident-prone a child as I was. I never found anything particularly unpleasant about the taste. It’s coppery-metallic (odd, given that it’s iron-based), moderately salty (less so than, say, sweat), and slightly sweet.
As for why anyone would deliberately drink someone else’s blood…well, it’s a pretty potent symbol, isn’t it? It’s hard to get more personal than one’s own blood. If it’s mutual, then it could be regarded as the ultimate bond (witness blood-brotherhood and blood-oath rituals); if it’s one-way, then it could be regarded as the ultimate violation. It’s mainly a question of intent.
I wasn’t too far away…just been busy as hell. SDMB and the people on it are always on my mind.
I think I may be getting a warm fuzzie here. *
Oh for pete’s sake, aha!
You freaking VANISH for freaking EVER, then you come back with this???
Busy, my ass. You were kidnapped by aliens, weren’t you?
Chicken.
You’ve tasted your own shit!?! Sicko. 
I think dental flossed blood tastes worse than pricked finger blood, more metallic, less salty/sweet.
I’ve noticed my blood tastes coppery. I haven’t managed to have the chance to taste someone else’s blood. I have noticed that if any of my patients swallow too much blood (what is too much?) they vomit rather violently.
Perse my love!!! I have been over in GD and GQ’s a few times so I didn’t vanish altogether. BTW is there any chance you could abduct me and maybe do a bit of probing?
Just like I said. Kidnapped by aliens. :rolleyes:
As for me abducting you, well…we’re having a fest here in June…