A temporary state in which sweet food or drink items cause a person to find savory or otherwise less sweet food or drinks less sweet or appealing, when they would otherwise think that it is sweet.
*Drinks very sweet coffee, then eats some jelly toast* “This toast isn’t very good… I’m probably sugar-blind from my coffee.”
“I’ve got sugar-blindness from that donut I ate before supper.”
A Shackteau is a humble, weather-beaten, structurally questionable shelter located in a spectacular or highly coveted place—Wales, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Crested Butte, coastal Maine, the Alps—where the building itself may be worth almost nothing, but the dirt, view, access, and mythology make it absurdly valuable.
In use:
Shackteâu - We thought it was an abandoned shed until the realtor called it a rare alpine Shackteâu with unobstructed views and listed it for $2 million.