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[–] [email protected] 120 points 5 months ago (6 children)

I got the "cilantro tastes like soap" gene personally. Would much rather have gotten the, "Always remember where I left my car keys" gene, or maybe the, "Come up with witty retorts on the spot instead of two hours later in the shower" one.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

At least you don't have my "sky-high cholesterol no matter what you eat" gene.

Also artificial sweeteners have an unpleasant chemical aftertaste that lingers for a long time. Apparently that's generic too...

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (1 children)

TIL about the artificial sweetener thing, this explains a lot. I have never been able to understand people enjoying diet soda.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Dude, same, and this is the first time I've heard of it. I thought the Diet Dr. Pepper commercials were just being cheeky when trying to compare it to dessert.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

have you tried ants?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My grandfather had low cholesterol no matter what. It was always perfect. This man ate more bacon and had more buttermilk and cornbread than anyone I've ever met in my life.

I have to watch mine pretty closely. Well, I should, but I'll just die horribly and early I guess. The alcohol will get me first anyway.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Hah, my grandfather had heart problems and very high cholesterol so we gave him such a hard time for eating unhealthy food. But now I have been a vegetarian for almost twenty years (I try to avoid eggs and dairy too) and my cholesterol is just as high as his was, unless I take medications. So we should have just let him eat whatever he wanted to...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I find that most sweeteners have the aftertaste, like Canderel and Sweetex, but Hermesetas taste fine. It might be worth trying a few brands and seeing if any work for you

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Look at Triglyceride to HDL ratio from the basic test, cholesterol is mostly about statins these days (sugar/carbs in the past), which only help mortality in ppl who've had heart attacks. Look into it.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I love cilantro, but I got the celery tastes bitter and spicy gene. So many people tell me it's tasteless but it has a strong, terrible taste to me.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Bitter and spicy kinda sounds like an allergy my dude

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's just that a lot of mild allergies sound just like that, no big obvious ill effects

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I think I have half of that gene (2/3, cilantro is nice), fresh celery tastes salty and spicy. If it's old, then it tastes like water.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Cilantro tasted like soap to me until my wife described it as lemony, and it suddenly tasted different and now I like cilantro. Senses are weird

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Cognitive Modulation of Olfactory Processing: Neuron

We showed how cognitive, semantic information modulates olfactory representations in the brain by providing a visual word descriptor, “cheddar cheese” or “body odor,” during the delivery of a test odor (isovaleric acid with cheddar cheese flavor) and also during the delivery of clean air. Clean air labeled “air” was used as a control. Subjects rated the affective value of the test odor as significantly more unpleasant when labeled “body odor” than when labeled “cheddar cheese.” In an event-related fMRI design, we showed that the rostral anterior cingulate cortex (ACC)/medial orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) was significantly more activated by the test stimulus and by clean air when labeled “cheddar cheese” than when labeled “body odor,” and the activations were correlated with the pleasantness ratings. This cognitive modulation was also found for the test odor (but not for the clean air) in the amygdala bilaterally.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I think it's great how a screenshot of comment about a tiktok video is leading to some pretty great discussion.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

If I eat cilantro by itself and focus on the idea of it tasting like soap, I can kinds taste it. It still tastes good to me, just with a hint of soapiness. It's not enough to ruin it for me, and I have to be looking for it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I love cilantro but one time I tasted the soap flavor. I had done a stir fry with cilantro and left the spoon in the still hot pot and there had been some cilantro stuck to the bottom of the spoon that sat there and cooked for as long as it took for the big pot to cool down. Then when I was doing dishes I picked up the spoon and I saw big bunch of cilantro so I ate it and it was horribly nasty and tasted like straight up hand soap. I thought for sure that some soap fell or splashed onto it but no it was just the cilantro. Never happened again either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

The Frech have this good phrase, L'esprit de l'escalier

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I believe that's all on the same gene