• @[email protected]
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    2111 days ago

    I used to absolutely hate cucumber, to the point that I could taste it if someone cut a tomato salad with the same knife they used for the cucumber without washing it in between, the whole tomato salad would be ruined for me.

    I could smell instantly when someone started chopping cucumber in the other room.

    That’s it, my superpower is to detect traces of cucumber.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      410 days ago

      That’s really impressive, since to be cucumber mostly just tastes like water. (This could just be where I’m getting my cucumber, though.)

      • @[email protected]
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        310 days ago

        This might be one of those things we haven’t discovered yet, like the soap/cilantro thing.

        Cucumber has a very strong flavor to me.

      • Don Piano
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        510 days ago

        It dominates everything else, few things are further away from water than (unfermented) cucumbers.

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      110 days ago

      This is me with Taco Bell’s shredded lettuce. If I get a burrito, I’ll know there’s a piece of lettuce in it two or three bites before I get to it.

      Like I love lettuce, spinach, kale, all those leafy greens. But I swear they spray it with artificial lettuce flavoring or something.

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      210 days ago

      I thought I was the only one omg. The closest thing I could find is the mutation that makes cilantro taste like soap, but that tastes fine to me.

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        110 days ago

        Do you have the same issue with watermelon ? Because for me watermelon or honeydew have the same kind of taste as cucumber, not as strong but still enough for me to stay away from it.

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          210 days ago

          I never really put two and two together but yeah. They’re just not as offensively awful. That’s crazy!

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      110 days ago

      I have this, but for mushrooms…cooked mushrooms have the worst taste, the smell gets into the rest of the food and ruins it.

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      10 days ago

      That reminds me, when we were kids my little sister used to call cucumber slices “ice cubes”. No idea why.