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 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.
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
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.
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.
