Smell is how ants communicate with one another so maybe these ant sniffers will be the first humans who can speak ant.
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tja@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Wait, is that true? Is someone able to smell ants?
thegr8goldfish@startrek.website 5 months ago
massive_bereavement@kbin.social 5 months ago
Ants part of a super-organism often compared to a computer, so probably these people are sniffing their information packets.
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Deebster@programming.dev 5 months ago
At the same time, Penick had people rate what they thought the ant smelled like. Most people said blue cheese, but some thought it smelled like rotted coconut. So Penick rotted a coconut in his backyard and found a mold growing on it that, sure enough, is the same mold (Penicillium roqueforti) that’s used to produce blue cheese. Another mystery, solved.
House ants, rotten coconuts and blue cheese all smell the same. Life is weird.
RavenFellBlade@startrek.website 5 months ago
Uh oh. They smell like blue cheese? That means they smell delicious!
PhatInferno@midwest.social 5 months ago
Thats what i was thinking, i love bluecheese!
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Uhh… Wait. I may be able to smell them. Those descriptions are making me realize some things.
Cikos@lemmy.world 5 months ago
cant say for ant. but i can smell cockroaches
bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
I’d rather die
xwolpertinger@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Me who spent months taking Tupperware boxes full of cockroaches out of the freezer and separating them by hand because our ants were picky eaters: I still smell them, to this day.
Thanks ants. Thants.
tamal3@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I have questions.
xwolpertinger@lemmy.world 5 months ago
just bio major things
Cikos@lemmy.world 5 months ago
🤢 i dont envy you
crawancon@lemm.ee 5 months ago
yikes. how do you react when you get a whiff? is it already too late and you don’t smell them until they are next to you, or is it a general “oh wow you have a roach prob in this house”
Cikos@lemmy.world 5 months ago
if its in my room, that shitling better gtfo my place. if they just arrived i can usually smell them when theyre around 1m off me. but if they been chilling in the room i can smell them once i enter the room. imagine like walking little turd.
crawancon@lemm.ee 5 months ago
wow that is crazy thank you for expanding.
snapoff@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
The smell like pepper to me. Well, you know how when you crush bricks or rocks it kinda has a peppery smell? It’s that pepper scent.
skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
what bricks are you crushing mon
snapoff@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Nah it’s specifically when they’re crushed. Not gravel smells, that smells different. You never crushed a rock or a brick?
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I have, many times, and I don’t think I would describe the smell as “pepper.” It is sharp though.
scottywh@lemmy.world 5 months ago
100%
I can smell them to the point I know when an area has an abundance of ant hills.
Almrond@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I can, they also taste absolutely abhorrent and ruin food they are in for me. It’s a very bitter chemical taste and smell.
Holzkohlen@feddit.de 5 months ago
I suggest not eating them, but I don’t want to tell you what to do.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
There are lots of weird genetic traits. Sneezing triggered by sunlight is another funny one.
Stern@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I got the “cilantro tastes like soap” gene personally. Would much rather have gotten the, “Always remember where I left my car keys” gene, or maybe the, “Come up with witty retorts on the spot instead of two hours later in the shower” one.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
At least you don’t have my “sky-high cholesterol no matter what you eat” gene.
zod000@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
TIL about the artificial sweetener thing, this explains a lot. I have never been able to understand people enjoying diet soda.
massive_bereavement@kbin.social 5 months ago
have you tried ants?
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 5 months ago
My grandfather had low cholesterol no matter what. It was always perfect. This man ate more bacon and had more buttermilk and cornbread than anyone I’ve ever met in my life.
I have to watch mine pretty closely. Well, I should, but I’ll just die horribly and early I guess. The alcohol will get me first anyway.
Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I find that most sweeteners have the aftertaste, like Canderel and Sweetex, but Hermesetas taste fine. It might be worth trying a few brands and seeing if any work for you
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
Look at Triglyceride to HDL ratio from the basic test, cholesterol is mostly about statins these days (sugar/carbs in the past), which only help mortality in ppl who’ve had heart attacks. Look into it.
TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 5 months ago
I love cilantro, but I got the celery tastes bitter and spicy gene. So many people tell me it’s tasteless but it has a strong, terrible taste to me.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Bitter and spicy kinda sounds like an allergy my dude
rudyharrelson@kbin.social 5 months ago
Celery man. Everyone tells me it has no taste, but to me it tastes like an entire lawn's worth of grass clippings compressed into a stick. Extremely pungent.
Same with cucumbers. They taste awfully strong and bitter to me.
CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Just to signal boost the other guy that sounds a lot like a food allergy friend
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Any time someone tells you something is “tasteless” you shpuld feel free to discard all of their food opinions
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
I think I have half of that gene, fresh celery tastes salty and spicy. If it’s old, then it tastes like water.
Juice@midwest.social 5 months ago
Cilantro tasted like soap to me until my wife described it as lemony, and it suddenly tasted different and now I like cilantro. Senses are weird
veganpizza69@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Cognitive Modulation of Olfactory Processing: Neuron
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
If I eat cilantro by itself and focus on the idea of it tasting like soap, I can kinds taste it. It still tastes good to me, just with a hint of soapiness. It’s not enough to ruin it for me, and I have to be looking for it.
pigup@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I love cilantro but one time I tasted the soap flavor. I had done a stir fry with cilantro and left the spoon in the still hot pot and there had been some cilantro stuck to the bottom of the spoon that sat there and cooked for as long as it took for the big pot to cool down. Then when I was doing dishes I picked up the spoon and I saw big bunch of cilantro so I ate it and it was horribly nasty and tasted like straight up hand soap. I thought for sure that some soap fell or splashed onto it but no it was just the cilantro. Never happened again either.
tja@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I believe that’s all on the same gene
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
The Frech have this good phrase, L’esprit de l’escalier
MacStache@programming.dev 5 months ago
I have that! Sneezed twice today because of bright sunlight. It can sometimes also be triggered voluntarily by looking at a bright light. You can’t trigger it multiple times in a row though. I suspect this is because sinuses need to recover from the shock of the sneeze.
OfCourseNot@fedia.io 5 months ago
I can sneeze several times in a row if a light is bright enough. I've even triggered it just thinking of the sun, a few times.
QuantumStorm@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yep same here! It’s nice when you feel a sneeze coming on and then it stops, you can kinda force it to happen!
Maalus@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Wait that’s a genetic quirk? I do that shit all the time with “the sneeze that won’t sneeze”
llamapants@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Sure is! It’s my favourite superpower.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Still can’t believe that some people are unable to smell rain coming in the summer!
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I honestly love that smell. It’s relaxing.
essteeyou@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Is that petrichor, or is that after rain?
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Petrichor is after the rain, also an amazing smell! But sometimes there’s also a distinct note before summer rain starts. Similar to petrichor, but different.
theneverfox@pawb.social 5 months ago
People used to make fun of me all the time for sniffing and saying “smells like it’s going to rain soon”. Couldn’t even tell you what it smells like… It just smells like the concept of it starting to rain
I’ve met others who knew exactly what I was talking about, but not many
insufferableninja@lemdro.id 5 months ago
wait, not everyone gets that?
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Nope, i dont remember the occurence rate tho. Just watch the video if u wanna know more lol
Webster@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I have a slightly different version of this. I get sneezing fits when too full. It’s genetic and happens to most people on one side of my family. Thanksgiving is always fun.
Ibaudia@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I have the sunlight sneeze. I would much rather be able to smell ants.
This feels like a shitty superpower what-if.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I have sunlight-sneezing, my thoughts are spoken word, I can read in dreams, the dress is gold, and I alway hear “laurel.”
What others are there?
fiercekitten@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Wait, you can read in dreams? The letters don’t constantly change?
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I sneeze from sunlight, luckily it’s only the first time for the day or very bright light.
MisshapenDeviate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
That’d be me. Nobody else I know does it, either. I try to explain it and they’re like “yeah, I try to look up at a light to help sneeze” and that’s just not it.
jupyter_rain@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Maybe not genetically, but fun fact about sneezing-quirks: There exists "Sneezing induced by sexual ideation or orgasm. Source: scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=20844552323960…
fiercekitten@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Wait, I’m not the only one??
Winter8593@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Wait I have that one! My dad has it too, but my brother doesn’t. All three of us are colorblind too lol.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The sneezing one must be an extreme case of our normal reactions, because I read years ago that if you’re on the verge of a sneeze, and it’s not happening, you should look at a bright light. 50% of the time, it works every time.
FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I have the sun sneezes
Actually it also triggers if go from really dark to really bright like turning on the bathroom light at night
OfCourseNot@fedia.io 5 months ago
I have this. Mildly annoying.