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The first time I had some salsa in a restaurant I was asking if they accidentally poured dish soap into it. It was inedible for me.
I only learned later that it was cilantro and that it is genetic.
I am still feeling sorry for the remark, but it was all I could taste and didn’t know any better.
I worked at a grocery store and the produce department got a big load of fresh cilantro in. My eyes watered as I walked into the back room. I thought they had just done a shitty job of cleaning the floors.
It´s not just that. There must be different kinds of cilantro too, because some taste like shit and some are delicious.
AFAIK different parts of the plant are used in seasoning, but only the leaves will taste like soap. The leaves have a kind of citrus flavor (so I’ve heard) and the root is just bitter/earthy.
The seeds are sometimes used in brewing beer, most commonly Belgian Whit style beers with the most popular of those being Blue Moon. I have the gene, and I’ve tried the seeds straight up when my old room mate was brewing beer, and it tastes the same as the leaf. It finally made sense why I hated all Belgian Whit style beers.
Then why do I sometimes enjoy the flavor of the leaves and sometimes I find them disgusting? The seeds I find always tasty though …
No, that just your genes that are constantly changing, from COVID vaccine and 5G antennae
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I change my genes at least once a week, or they start to smell
Reroll yoir genes at your closest radio tower
antennae
Convention is actually to refer to the radio devices as “antennas” and the biological things as “antennae,” I believe.
… and chem-trails … don´t forget the chem-trails!
I find it similar to parsley . It’s not soapy to me, but I’m not a hardcore fan. I guess I can enjoy though, does that count or you are looking specifically for people who sense it like soap and like it too?
Yeah that’s what coriander should taste like. To anyone with the gene, it tastes wildly different to parsley.
I guess that puts you top-center on the coriander compass.
I don’t taste parsley at all. Love cilantro. No soap flavor. Hate tomatoes. Taste like a juiced corpse. So, I’m convinced parsley and tomatoes have an associated gene.
I’m guessing you are not a fan of Italian food! Never heard about someone comparing parsley and tomatoes like this before.
Oddly enough, if you cook the tomatoes, it completely takes away the bad flavor. That’s puts alot of Italian back on the menu. And parsley is fine - it just tastes like nothing.
Hate tomatoes. Taste like a juiced corpse.
There’s a gene for that. It’s like the Coriander gene but more rare.
Really?! I’ve never been able to find anything definitive. Just plenty of articles like this one that basically just say: “Tomatoes are gross. Craaazy right?” with no real explanation:
I have a similar thing but with celery. I cannot stand celery because to me it smells extremely bad. Like, the worst thing I have ever smelled or will smell bad. If there’s even a tiny bit of celery somewhere, I can smell it. I don’t even know how celery tasted because I can’t get it close enough to my mouth to try.
I saw a video of someone teaching himself to like celery, and coerced my girlfriend to do the same - it works!
You literally just start by nibbling a bit every day and start eating more and more as you can handle it. She loves celery now, to the point where she just eats it raw as snacks.
Whether it’s worth the apparent torture is up to you. To be frank, picky eaters give me second hand embarrassment when out dining, since you can teach yourself to like basically everything. Usually it’s just people who didn’t get much variety as children.
I got plenty of variety as a child, but there are some foods I just can’t stand. I’m not about to force myself to eat them when I have so many other options.
But I’m glad I wouldn’t accidentally end up eating out with you. Someone who cares so much what other people are not eating makes me embarrassed for them.
You sound insufferable.
Or don’t, because a crunchy water stick isn’t worth the effort…
It is if you’re trying to lose weight
Sure, but I don’t think forcing the plus sized homies to gaslight their taste buds is necessarily the best path.
I’d personally start with veggies they already like and build from there.
i used to work at a poke shop and I had one regular that had a special kind of bowl: he wouldn’t get any rice or greens, not even any protein, he would request like 4 or 5 big scoops of cilantro. covered with crunchies like sesame and tempura flakes with sauce. Like this bro just eats cilantro salad every day
The guy transcended the coriander compass.
In small amounts yeah, but with tons of it, it is revolting to me
What is the soapy gene?
A gene has been identified as a likely cause of why some people enjoy the smell and taste of coriander (also known as cilantro) while others have exactly the opposite reaction to the point of repulsion. Depending on ancestry, somewhere between 3% and 21% of the population associate it with unpleasant taste, including a combination of soap and vomit, or say that it is similar to the foul smelling odor emitted by stinkbugs. This is due to the presence of aldehyde chemicals, which are present in soap, various detergents, coriander, several species of stinkbugs and cinnamon.
For anybody here in the future: whatever knockoff Wikipedia OP linked to has died. You can find this quote on the regular Wikipedia page for it, under the clinical significance tab
So, if cilantro tastes to me like the smell of Irish Spring, I have the gene? I definitely still enjoy it, though. Funny enough, I also enjoyed one brand of Sangria that tasted exactly like the smell of the floor cleaner from my last job.
i always hated weird mex and india foods and recently discovered: no they are not wierdos that like soap
I definitely have the soapy gene, but don’t mind the taste. I blame thrills soap gum, I occasionally enjoyed that as a kid. My sister also has the gene and can’t stand the taste.
So it’s interesting, I have the soapy gene but have found that I do enjoy it, in modest amounts, in certain foods. It primarily just exists for me as an acquired, slightly off flavor that balances the rest - think like trying coffee for the first time versus later in life.
That said, some food trucks really just give you whole scoops of the stuff and I can exhaust that good will pretty quick when I have a bowl of hot soapy pork broth
Am I the only human in the top left?? When I first learned of the gene, I was like “ahhhh that must be why,” then tried it again and did not taste soap. I just kinda hate the taste. It’s like too-much-vegetableness-to-make-up-for-overpowering-whatever-it’s-added-to but I don’t taste soap.
I have one allele of the soapy gene variant at rs2741762, and I really like cilantro and coriander. But I also like any weird or different smells, it appears as if I smell everything a little more strongly, and nothing is truly disgusting for me taste-wise (texture though: can’t stand anything that has a vein-like quality). I have ADHD though, and one emergent behavior from that is pursuing the interesting/novel over the good, smells included.
I think I have similar taste to yours, with the exception of durian. I could not with that.
How do you know this? Do those DNA testing sites tell you this sort of thing?
Yes, I tested through 23andMe and then downloaded my genes. Occasionally I compare them to recent studies with https://codegene.eu, which is how I learned a bit about a cholesterol metabolism gene mutation increasing the probability of Alzheimer’s.
My attitude to privacy is probably more complacent than it should be.
I have soap gene. But honestly that flavour only becomes an issue when there is too much coriander. The other day I was happily adding it to a cucumber raita.
I don’t mind the taste, but I’m extremely sensitive to it. If there is one bit in the dish, all of it tastes like cilantro and nothing else. Is this also part of the soap gene.
Why is top left Kevin James
