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Genes be crazy (piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone)
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[–] 115 points 9 months ago (32 children)

Whatever, keep your ant-smelling superpower, I'm not jealous. At least cilantro doesn't taste like soap to me! :P

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  • [–] 25 points 9 months ago (31 children)

    We need a study on if that’s the divide. If you can smell ants you also think cilantro tastes like soap

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  • [–] 36 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    Cilantro: tastes like soap

    Can smell ants: no

    Sorry, I'm a counterpoint. I got the worst of both.

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    I'm with you. Can't smell ants, but cilantro is soapy.

    There are lots of little genetic quirks out there. I experience Arnold's Reflex, that is, I cough when I stick a cotton swab in my left ear canal. (Only my left. My right doesn't react.) There's also the Photic Sneeze Reflex, which is where you sneeze when looking at light. I don't have that, but around 35% of the population does.

    I'm sure there are countless more little things like this that people just haven't talked about/gathered enough data on yet.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Every single time I walk outside, 3 sneezes sometimes more because of the sun. Although I've never met somebody else who does the same

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I learned about the Photic Sneeze Reflex when discussing the frustration of cancelled sneezes (you know, when you feel one coming on, but then it just doesn't happen and it leaves you feeling weird.) He told me, "When that happens, I just look at a light." I had no idea what he meant. Meanwhile, he thought it was normal for everyone. We both learned something that day.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago*

    An entry for ACHOO syndrome in the National Library of Medicine, by a Laura Dean (I think?) from 2012 claims 1 in 4 people will be pushed over the edge to a sneeze when they already have one on the edge, but "pure" photic sneezing is "far less common" although there is no number given, so I have no idea how rare or common it is to just straight up sneeze from light without already having to sneeze

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    I didn't know about the cough reflex. I'll have to check if it's both sides. Can you taste iodine? It's present in hot pink food dye, making things like pink peeps taste worse than yellow or blue for me

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    Can smell ants, love cilantro, can't smell stinkbugs.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Stinkbugs only smell bad if you scare them. They never smell bad to me, either, but I also try not to scare insects.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago* (5 children)

    Idk if scooping them up and putting them outside is scary to them, but I'm told people can smell them just from being in the same room with them, or crushing them, and I've done (or been near) all of the above yet never smelled one. And they're constantly sneaking in my house so I should have by now I think.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I can’t smell ants, and cilantro tastes soapy. However, I do have dry earwax and my armpits don’t smell. (Which is just spurious information to your hypothesis.)

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    Exactly! Cilantro tastes like soap to me, but my kids love it. That is so weird. Ant smell and probably snake smell are the same I bet. I have heard old people say they can smell a snake around.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago* (6 children)

    I am afraid that cilantro does taste like soap to me but that people around me have been telling me long enough that it's tasty that I started to like it.

    Tldr: I now like the taste of soap.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    i’ve had a similar experience, at first it was incredibly soapy to me. now i genuinely like it and i don’t taste the soap anymore. how could that work though if it’s a genetic trait? could this be stronger in some variants of cilantro? or even on the culantro/cilantro divide?

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