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i always hated weird mex and india foods and recently discovered: no they are not wierdos that like soap
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.
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.
Cilantro tastes like soap to me. I like it. I can eat as much of soap flavored plant as I want without shitting out bubbles.
Bazed
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.
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.
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?
I guess that puts you top-center on the coriander compass.
Yeah that’s what coriander should taste like. To anyone with the gene, it tastes wildly different to parsley.
Now do one for people with the asparagus smelling and smell producing gene.
I love Asparagus, but I definitely can smell it when I pee.
Fuck cilantro.
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
I love LOVE cilantro!
There’s a similar gene for grapefruit. My parents love grapefruit. But to me it tastes like the devil. Love grapefruit candy and soda though.
Uh
Hmm
Does the mailman like grapefruit?
You just don’t know the grapefruit technique yet.
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.
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Why is top left Kevin James
