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Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• kautau@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We need a study on if that’s the divide. If you can smell ants you also think cilantro tastes like soap

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  • lengau@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Cilantro: tastes like soap

    Can smell ants: no

    Sorry, I’m a counterpoint. I got the worst of both.

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    • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But do ants taste like soap or cilantro

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      • dunz@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They taste kind of almost vinegarey

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    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m with you. Can’t smell ants, but cilantro is soapy.

      There are lots of little genetic quirks out there. I experience Arnold’s Reflex, that is, I cough when I stick a cotton swab in my left ear canal. (Only my left. My right doesn’t react.) There’s also the Photic Sneeze Reflex, which is where you sneeze when looking at light. I don’t have that, but around 35% of the population does.

      I’m sure there are countless more little things like this that people just haven’t talked about/gathered enough data on yet.

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      • Denvil@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Every single time I walk outside, 3 sneezes sometimes more because of the sun. Although I’ve never met somebody else who does the same

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      • XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I didn’t know about the cough reflex. I’ll have to check if it’s both sides. Can you taste iodine? It’s present in hot pink food dye, making things like pink peeps taste worse than yellow or blue for me

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    • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I can smell ants (but they aren’t disgusting just sour) and cilantro is delicious.

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  • Monument@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I can’t smell ants, and cilantro tastes soapy. However, I do have dry earwax and my armpits don’t smell. (Which is just spurious information to your hypothesis.)

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      but can you roll your tongue? <insert more asenine genetic things here>

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      • Monument@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I cannot!

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  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Can smell ants, love cilantro, can’t smell stinkbugs.

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    • swelter_spark@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Stinkbugs only smell bad if you scare them. They never smell bad to me, either, but I also try not to scare insects.

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      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Idk if scooping them up and putting them outside is scary, but I’m told people can smell them just from being in the same room with them, or crushing them, and I’ve done (or been near) all of the above yet never smelled one. And they’re constantly sneaking in my house so I should have by now I think.

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  • Wilco@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Exactly! Cilantro tastes like soap to me, but my kids love it. That is so weird. Ant smell and probably snake smell are the same I bet. I have heard old people say they can smell a snake around.

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    • KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I am afraid that cilantro does taste like soap to me but that people around me have been telling me long enough telling me that it’s tasty that I started to like it.

      Tldr: I now like the taste of soap.

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      • e8CArkcAuLE@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        i’ve had a similar experience, at first it was incredibly soapy to me. now i genuinely like it and i don’t taste the soap anymore. how could that work though if it’s a genetic trait? could this be stronger in some variants of cilantro? or even on the culantro/cilantro divide?

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      • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m slightly in this. I love cilantro, but when I heard it tastes like soap to some I just thought “I guess a little bit it does taste that way… but the rest of it tastes better.”

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  • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I can smell ants strongly and have an aversion to them, and cilantro tastes wonderful to me.

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      this is your thread! Go nuts!

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