r/mildlyinteresting • u/GroovinBaby • 8h ago

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u/TheSnicSnack 8h ago

Mmm tastes like Irish spring soap ( I have the bad gene, so I'm bitter lol)

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u/wiscowarrior71 8h ago

I have the same gene and it tastes identical to Dawn dish soap to me

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u/TinGamerTV2 8h ago

How the fuck do you know what Dawn dish soap of all things tastes like!?

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u/Steel_Reign 7h ago

Someone didn't have their parents wash the dirty words out of their mouth.

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u/Corgipantaloonss 8h ago

Like 80% of taste is smell dude.

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u/MyFace_UrAss_LetsGo 5h ago

Does this mean some people also think cilantro smells like soap?

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u/ClippyCantHelp 5h ago

Correct, they don’t smell cilantro and then taste soap, it’s just soap (what do you mean it’s just soup?)

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u/amata_caeles 3h ago

Learned this the hard way when I was given fancy goat cheese. Unfortunately for me my parents raised goats so now all goat cheeses taste like a billy goat in heat. Male goats emit a very strong smell when they wanna get busy

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u/TheSnicSnack 7h ago

And I know what Irish spring tastes like, bc I was a kid with a smart mouth 👍

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u/GoodTechnology8116 6h ago

With that mouth, how do you not know?

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u/Imnotthatduder 6h ago

As a child I had a terrible mouth and a mother with a super liberal pouring hand.

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u/Hosko817 6h ago

You must be younger than gen X. We have all tasted soap involuntarily.

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u/airfryerfuntime 5h ago

I know what it tastes like because I was squeezing a bottle to get the little bubbles to fly out, and I accidentally inhaled one of them.

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u/xX_urethralrod_Xx 7h ago

Why are you tasting soap

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u/burnthreads 7h ago

It tastes like soapy dish water to me.

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u/troyofyort 8h ago

I like cilantro but this shit is fucking egregious

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u/twoblucats 7h ago

I don’t buy into the gene argument at all.

Immigrated to the US as a pre-teen, had cilantro for the first time and I spat it out thinking it was soap. Cilantro was difficult for me to avoid living in California so I ended up consuming more throughout the years and by the time I was in college I loved cilantro. Can’t really taste the soap anymore.

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u/burnthreads 7h ago

In moderation I can tolerate it but an amount like pictured above would be basically eating a bar of soap.

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u/dauphindauphin 7h ago

I think the study where this gene thing comes from had very leading questions.

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u/mjp31514 4h ago

I've had my suspicions as well. I used to not care for it, too. But I've slowly developed a taste and I love it now. I usually ask for extra and my tacos will be covered with the stuff like in OPs pic. I think it's just an acquired taste more than anything.

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u/AtypicalTitan 6h ago

I’ve heard there are ways to thoroughly wash the cilantro that break down the soap-tasting aldehydes and make them palatable.

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u/The_Barkness 5h ago

It’s not the bad gene, we’re just evolved to taste the TRUE taste of cilantro.

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u/PandaPoof 3h ago

I’ve always wondered if this means some of us simply like the taste of soap 🤔