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[-] kemsat@lemmy.world 84 points 3 weeks ago

Some comments are calling it a genetic quirk, but I submit to you all that it is the ones that lack the ability that have a deficiency.

[-] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 18 points 3 weeks ago

Am I also deficient if I lack the ability to taste soap when I eat cilantro?

[-] ARk@lemm.ee 13 points 3 weeks ago

please eat all the cilantro so we never have to see it on a dish again

[-] lambdabeta@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 weeks ago

I'm one of the very rare people that have the gene that makes cilantro taste like soap, but likes it. I blame the soap flavoured gum I had as a kid here in Canada.

So maybe save a little soaplantro for those that want it ;)

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

cilantro tastes like soap for you ? no way, is this real ?

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's pretty common. I mourn for those that aren't freakish enough to actually want to eat soap. I mourn for those like the parent too, but for different reasons.

[-] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

Yes because it makes you worse at finding and disposing of those damn stink bugs, whose stink smells vaguely like how soapy cilantro tastes because of aldehydes.