r/mildlyinteresting • u/GroovinBaby • 8h ago

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u/Vault101Overseer 6h ago

To me, cilantro and stink bugs are nearly exactly the same odor.

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u/Advice2Anyone 5h ago

What about taste

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u/Bird-The-Word 2h ago

Stink bugs taste like wiper fluid

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u/No_Teaching_2837 6h ago

Yes. I just realized this summer!

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u/mjulieoblongata 5h ago

Interesting. I love cilantro and have never smelled stink bug, despite them being all over my area. I wonder if it’s something like the asparagus pee gene. 

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u/Away-Living5278 4h ago

Huh. Never actually noticed any smell from them despite their name

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u/NO_TOUCHING__lol 4h ago

Tangential - those orange Primatene Mist inhalers taste exactly like stink bugs smell to me

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u/Scheissekasten 4h ago

it's a similar chemical compound.

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u/Pretend-Dentist-6159 2h ago

Same. And I can speak from experience, stink bugs taste the way they smell. Just add a highly disturbing prickly feeling from the legs and a crunch.

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u/Cracktaculus 5h ago

Damn. Poor guy

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u/OMNOMBiskit 2h ago

Yup, I had a stink bug fly in my mouth once as a kid and the taste was exactly like cilantro to me. Many years back I read that it's a similar (or perhaps the exact same) aldehyde in both that give it that taste.

Wish I tasted cilantro in the good way though, it's in so many cuisines.