There was this one time (could have been at band camp, i cannot recall precisely) when I actually chewed on some speaker cable in a rough-ass effort to strip it. It did distinctly have a taste. However I would not call it a flavor.
And while alcohol consumption is arguably an act of slowly filling ones body with a usually awesome, oft umbrellaed, mixtures of toxins, I'm quite sure the consumption of various dielectrics, copper and silver simply cannot be good for you. Even the ohno continuous cast types.
Having said that, Amazon is a little late on some of my stuff so the SYS will take another week to get to me from my forwarder
Is it a holiday or something in the US? And if so, where are the SALES!!! announcements?