What does wee taste like?

Being a parent of boys, there is a frequent chance that I will have to clear up puddles of wee from time to time.  They are all pretty good (big and small!) but sometimes having to aim, particularly first thing in the morning when they are really tired, it all becomes a bit of a struggle and well, yes it is usually me who ends up stepping on the wet patch.

One morning last week, we were having the usual manic morning and I was rushing around trying to get everyone out of the house on time.  A came down to breakfast and said; “Mummy there was something wet on the floor near the toilet and it tasted funny.”

I stopped and looked at her.  She carried on eating her breakfast. Should I tell her that she had probably just tasted someone’s urine?  What possessed her to taste it anyway?

In the end, I waited until after she had eaten and gently explained that it was probably wee and that it wasn’t the best idea to taste things off the bathroom floor.  She wasn’t bothered in the slightest.

I shouldn’t have worried though as if you Google the medicinal properties of urine (and yes I did do that), it turns out that it is a bit of a wonder medicine, so maybe she knows something I don’t?