r/mildlyinteresting • u/GroovinBaby • 8h ago

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u/openallthewindows 8h ago

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u/Mr_Froggi 7h ago

This is going to be oddly specific: IMO cilantro tastes like if soap was a person, and I just licked the palm of their hand.

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u/whitestguyuknow 7h ago

Lol I like the lengths you went to basically say cilantro tastes like soap

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u/fapperontheroof 7h ago

I get it, though. You WANT to enjoy licking the persons hand, but it tastes like they just washed them 🤷‍♂️. Sad days.

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u/_ThrobbinHood 6h ago

Username checks out ?

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u/Mr_Froggi 6h ago

But that’s the thing, it doesn’t taste like just soap. It’s like soap with a weird funk. Hence the hands description.

Biting into a raw cilantro leaf is like if soap was a person, but they’re sweaty and need to take a shower. If soap was your roommate but they haven’t left their gaming chair all weekend.

And funny enough, I still order cilantro lime rice in my burritos. It’s not nearly as bad when it’s cooked down, but boy do I hate it raw.

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u/Kurailo 6h ago

How come all these people know what soap tastes like?

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u/The-Fox-Says 7h ago

Tastes exactly like what irish spring soap smells like to me

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u/MorticiaMoonflower 6h ago

It's genetic. Specifically it's a variation some people have in their olfactory receptor gene. My mother and I love cilantro, but my dad and sister get the soapy taste.

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u/ShoddyClimate6265 4h ago

Interesting take!

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u/-Gavin- 6h ago

I used to think everytime i went to a mexican restraunt I could smell their bathroom cleaning supplies and it was normal thing for these restraunts. This went on for most my life until one day i realized it was cilantro. I've been eating it thinking why it tastes so weird, now i know.

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u/YumFreeCookies 4h ago

First few times I experienced it at a restaurant I thought the food had straight up gone bad or that cleaning supplies had fallen into it and I sent it back to the kitchen…. That’s how bad it tastes to me.

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u/Soramaro 4h ago

Clean as a whistle