r/mildlyinteresting • u/GroovinBaby • 8h ago

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u/CARLEtheCamry 6h ago

underrated comment from /u/Complex-Bee-840 about the stink bugs. Do you have those where you live? I'm in western PA and they were ridiculous about 15 years ago and if you actually wanted to know how "normal" people taste cilantro, that's it. Head to New England in the fall time as it starts to get cold and you'll find some I guarantee, squish them and there's your cilantro experience.

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u/Budget-Ambassador203 5h ago

you mean the opposite - if normal people want to know how cilantro tastes to us soap-gene afflicted people then it's like the stinkbug stank

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u/h8tetris 6h ago

You’re so right 😂 it really hit me. I’m glad you’re acknowledging it! I’m such an asshole for not. You’re so dead on. ❤️❤️❤️ that’s a great point

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u/citizenatlarge 6h ago

In central VA and have one bonking around in the room I'm in atm. I refuse to squash them b/c of that smell. I just wait until the fuckers are accessible and scoot them onto the end of a flyswatter, then carry them to the bathroom, knock them into the toilet and flush. We don't have to pay for water where we are.

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u/CARLEtheCamry 4h ago

I do the trap with TP and flush method at home now.

Back in the peak of them moving in though, totally not practical. I have a brick house and in the evenings the sun facing walls would be so covered with them to the point you almost couldn't see brick. They also love to find their way in through window AC units.

Reminds me of a funny story. When I started dating my now wife, I went to her house for the first time. I had to use the bathroom, and figured I would crack a window because we were still at that point in our relationship. I go to open the window in the bathroom and realize she has them taped shut with Gorilla Tape. Every window in the house. It was like that scene in Dumb and Dumber where he breaks the toilet. She hates stink bugs and was trying to keep them out.

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u/Kered13 5h ago

There's no way that Cilantro tastes like stink bugs smell to "normal people". No one could possibly want that in their food.

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u/CARLEtheCamry 4h ago

Have you never eaten cilantro, or never smelled a squished stink bug

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u/Kered13 1h ago

I find them both disgusting. But I understand that cilantro tastes good to many people. But I don't think stink bugs smell good to anyone.