Comment on Ant smell

• ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bitter and spicy kinda sounds like an allergy my dude

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  • Duranie@literature.cafe ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Celery tastes like that too me as well, but no allergy. I can eat it with no negative effects, other than the fact that I’ve had to taste celery.

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    • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s just that a lot of mild allergies sound just like that

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• 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.

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  • The_v@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Look up the “TAS2R bitter taste receptor gene family”. It’s a fun little group of genes that control how well bitterness is detected.

    I am a moderate bitter taster. So I do not like celery (mildly unpleasant flavor) and prefer cucumbers that contain the recessive bi gene that stops the production of cucubitacin in the plant. The ones that contain the bt gene, the skin gets too bitter for me. This gene mostly stops the cucubitacin production in the fruit but not the plant.

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  • Juice@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah I really don’t like celery. Cucumbers are pretty good if they’re peeled, but yeah they have a very strong taste to me, and the peel is very bitter

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  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Your celery description seems apt to me, but for me it’s much less pungent. It’s actually super mild for me, so I don’t mind it. I actually quite like celery.

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• CobblerScholar@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just to signal boost the other guy that sounds a lot like a food allergy friend

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• 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

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• 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.

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