#cilantro tastes like soap

[hotteacocoa]

I just realized I’ve been on here for about a year and never properly introduced myself, so here it is:

Hi, I’m your friend now. I love cats, don’t have a favorite color, but I really like kelly green because it burns my retinas when I look at it. I am allergic to red dye 40 and can’t eat Twizzlers because of it, and that makes me very sad. I sing to myself when I’m scared, and I have a horrible fear of dead bugs. Cilantro tastes like soap. :)

#I am horribly allergic to shellfish and almost died because of it #my brain is either constantly lagging or going way too fast #I only bake when I’m sad or bored #puns are hilarious to me #I love anything cat-themed #I am dyslexic and sometimes it’s raelly obvious (see what I did there? haha I know I’m hilarious) #I will start a project only to stop when realizing it would take too long to finish #i will say it again #cilantro tastes like soap #I drink way too much coffee and by too much I mean sometimes I’ll have 2 cups because I literally don’t need that much #i might have adhd #inattentiveadhd #or even #high functioning adhd #but I’ve never been diagnosed #so we’ll blame my energy on too much caffeine or something #:))) <3 #txt #txt post #it’s a bit late introducing myself now but I don’t care #introduction #introductory post #adhd inattentive #random #random stuff #adhd moment #gen z mood #gen z stuff #gen z humor #gen z post

[sunsetzer]

#polls #tumblr polls #cilantro #cooking #food #my post #personally i have the tastes like soap gene

[thelastspeecher]

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#making this bc I'm furious at how many people think they taste like cotton candy #I am an enormous cotton candy fan #those grapes do NOT taste like cotton candy to me #but idk maybe it's some weird genetic thing like cilantro tasting like soap #so I'm gonna get some goldarn DATA #(btw cotton candy grapes are a variety of grapes that supposedly taste like cotton candy) #poll #speecher speaks

[lastoneout]

#making this bcs so far Im the only person I know who can taste the soap but still likes it #the other cilantro poll I saw did not have that option #I want to know if theres anyone else like me

[naranjapetrificada]

Wow, people still out here saying Izzy spent the Kraken Era "protecting" the crew huh

#maybe this is just like how cilantro either tastes like soap to someone or it doesn't #it feels that way if I think about this perspective for more than 3 seconds #that or like I'm about to have a massive nosebleed #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2 #ofmd spoilers #ofmd s2 spoilers

[padawansuggest]

Hot take I’m a massive tea drinker who breaks every rule. I don’t heat it to a specific temp. I don’t time it when I steep. I sweeten it (with monkfruit drops) before I taste it because no I’m not gonna taste something that was boiling three minutes ago how about YOU burn your tongue off. I don’t even much care if I steep it too long. I will mix and match whatever I feel like when I fill the steeper I’m just out here making experiments with tossing in lemon zest or a piece of ginger I don’t give a fuck. If I don’t think the tea is strong enough I grab a White Emperor (racist much) bag from the cabinet and toss it in next to the steeper. I like adding weird shit like cocoa powder or vanilla and not just to rooibos either.

I don’t even care how big the mug is I’m filling it to the brim if it’s not enough tea I’ll add more or steep it longer. I’m a fucking rebel.

I like cold brew tea just as much as hot tea. In fact, if I make hot tea and forget about it long enough to become cold, great. Now I have a cold drink. Delicious.

And you know what??????? I still think 90% of teas taste the same. I’ll still drink them but I don’t have much preference as long as it’s not green tea or peppermint because I’m very allergic to those. I mean I’m often allergic to a lot of the ingredients I sprinkle in but I mean peppermint literally melts my insides and leaves me bleeding for days but green tea turns me into an inflatable non-fun house and it hurts so bad.

But like. Yeah. I got a lot of things wrong with me, but my insistence to drinking something that I believe 90% of the time tastes basically the same??? Lmao.

#okay but I also can’t do chamomile or lavender #or hibiscus because all three of those taste nasty bitter to me because of a weird gene I have #samish gene that makes cilantro taste bad to some people #I also think walnuts taste like soap but that’s their appeal to me when I add them to deserts #sweet and salty? ew. I want sweet and soap

[chalkrub]

another attack from a few days ago <:^)

#my art #artfight #art fight #anthro #furry #deer #monster #coriandeer if you will....... #is anyone else so glad they like coriander (cilantro)? it's such a good herb #rip to the people who taste soap in it but I'm built different #i've had so many lovely attacks I'm very grateful....if you've tagged me in one on tumblr #then I'll reblog them periodically jsyk. i'm not ignoring you

[proteusolm]

I wish more people would smell stinkbugs so that they wouldn't look at me like I'm nuts when I tell them that I don't like cilantro because it tastes exactly like the stink that stinkbugs produce. I smelled stinkbug secretions before I ate something with enough cilantro for the taste to really stand out, so unfortunately the former is the one that I more strongly associate that smell/taste with. This makes me unable to eat things with much cilantro before I go "Eugh, tastes like a bug that doesn't want to be eaten".

Before anyone asks; no, cilantro does not taste "like soap" to me.

#i guess I haven't eaten soap to compare. but my idea of 'soap taste' is probably what unscented bar soap smells like? #or like... thrills gum #and cilantro doesn't resemble that to me

[dross-the-fish]

My partner eating Mexican food with cilantro in it: Delicious! Amazing! What a delightful flavor!

Me taking a curious bite off of his plate:

#How I envy those genetically blessed individuals who can eat cilantro without it tasting like soap #The most gorgeous fajitas I've ever seen...packed full with pieces of the devil's toilet paper

[suffercerebral]

#i feel like there's a a gene for this like cilantro soap #bc IPAs taste so good to me but so many people vehemently dislike them

[roseluwakcoffee]

Kirigiri's profile says she hates coriander

Do you think she just really hates the flavor or is she one of those people with a genetic disposition that causes cilantro and the like to taste like soap?

Could see it either way. She lived in L.A. for a while when she was little, and considering how much cilantro is in Latino cooking...

I always forget about that fact, my real question about it has been what they’re technically referring to. Because coriander could also be the spice, which is used on curry, stews, and meats so she could find that in L.A. too. But it would be hilarious if she did think cilantro tastes like soap so I’d be 100% for that

#such a random thing to dislike #bc coriander spice is just kind of earthy #but if you dont like that taste it might stand out #which is why its infinitely funnier to imagine her eating something w cilantro and wondering who the fuck put soap in it #dr1 #kyoko kirigiri

[toytulini]

i may not be able to open posts from my notes or messages or get more context on posts via looking at the notes, but at least i can make fucked up coffee properly now

#toy txt post #while i was away i began my journey into coffee snobbery. im doing my best. i have a lot to learn #i have a fancy hand grinder that all the ppl on reddit hemmedvand hawed andaid it would probably be somewhat #Acceptable for pour over coffee that I got for less than $100. i want you to understand the coffee grinder ppl are insane. #there are grinders for sale that cost like more than my car did brand new. these ppl are insane? i got a chemex pour over #and a glass stovetop gooseneck kettle cos i couldnt find an electric kettle that didnt have the metal touching the water. prolly cos it #would make them less energy efficient and defeat the purpose but i dont fuck w metal water vessels cos historically They Keep Betraying Me #by making my drinks taste like ass. i got some genetic fuckery going on ig. like the cilantro soap gene but its the metal makes water taste #like ass gene? idk. but i wanted a kettle that didnt have metal and i wanted that gooseneck pour so i found one on Amazon. surprisingly #hard to find? annoying. mostly bc every search engine is bad and kept showing me metal kettles anyway. i got a grinder i got a pour over i #got a kettle i got fancy beans from a local small business i started drinking it black. im going to unlock these flavors. i will get it #but also. im still a goblin. i put garlic powder in with the grounds and made garlic coffee. its interesting. it tastes like garlic. and #coffee. but actually the garlic is mostly an aftertaste? #so it feels very similar to drinking a cup of black coffee to accompany your garlic bread actually. the first time i made it i think it #underextracted the coffee tho. second time i extracted the coffee enough but i didnt like it as much? both times. fascinatingly #i did not get strong aromas! which was weird: i find both garlic and coffee have pretty strong scents already #i wouldve thought combining them would make it stronger? it was a little stronger while brewing the second time but smelled good to me #i find the flavor of it compelling enough that id like to try to refine it a bit more and see if i can make it good #ive come a long way since my first garlic coffee haha #(adding garlic salt to black coffee out of a keurig. dont reccomend this: garlic salt has too much salt and it overpowers everything. #could not get a garlic flavor without overpowering salt flavors. so it mostly tasted like seawater with a hint of coffee. garlic powder is #the way to go. anyway next i want to try it with a lighter roast. i was using medium roast #of a local brand that i would name for exposure but wont name lest it doxxes me haha #also want to try egg coffee sometimes? the vietnamese one. looks..intriguing. robusta beans scare me a little tho #anyway. if youre interested in interesting flavors i recc garlic coffee. it was intriguing. if i find a methodology i think tastes best #ill update yall #im also interested in other things. i want to experiment with spicy coffee. chili powder or cayenne #make the paprika dracula coffee haha #im also admittedly intrigued by butter coffee? as a flavor profile tho not for fad diet reasons.

[gnarlystarships]

i hate eating food other people make at like dinner parties and stuff because i just feel like. so deeply embarrassed about how many foods i don’t like or can’t eat. in my normal day to day life it seems like there’s so much i can eat, i have tons of variety in what i eat, its not like im just eating 5 things or something. but as soon as im eating food that other people make i start immediately hitting those walls that i normally easily avoid and i just feel so so so embarrassed and do my best to avoid eating at other people’s houses because i feel so embarrassed about it

#there is no nice way to say that ‘i don’t like this’ #even ‘i can’t eat this’ makes people sad #any time people notice me trying to discretely pick something out or not eat something i just feel humiliated #i can’t stand it #this is something i feel all the time #but i’m feeling it very much tonight #because my sister in law came over and made dinner #and i really hated it but i did my best to eat it without any sign of distress or problems #the only part i avoided was the green onions bc i really can’t stand them #and she noticed me like. gently avoiding getting the onions in my fork grabs #and announced like ‘oh you don’t like green onion?’ #and i was like aah no #and she like pointed to a pile of cilantro for people to add as desired #and was like ‘do you want to add this instead?’ #and i was like aah no i have the soap gene i’m ok thanks!! #and she was like oh ok #and she didn’t mean any harm but it just. makes me want to die #that there’s always at least one interaction like this #every time someone else cooks for me #it makes me want to die #i wish i jusr had no taste buds #ogray

[el-michoacano]

cilantro

Another deleted scene fic! This one takes place between Coushatta and Wiedersehen! Tagging @dolly-macabre, @lokisinsurrection, @seraphtrevs, @lady-writes-flanagan, @jugem13, @sword-day, @slainmanca and @cooked-out-euro-trash 🖤

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"You got a shovel I can borrow, Ignacio?"

They were on the road when Lalo asked, and Nacho gripped the steering wheel just a little tighter. All he knew about this man was his name. Salamanca. That was enough to set him on edge. They'd known each other less half an hour, and they were driving uptown now, and Nacho had no idea what to think. All he could say was, "In the trunk." Were they going to bury a body already?

Lalo's voice pulled him from his thoughts, saying, "Turn left here."

Nacho did as he was told. Just play the dutiful henchman, he told himself. His knuckles were white. You got this. Unsure he wanted to know the answer, he asked, "Where're we going, anyway?"

"The nursery."

That wasn't what he expected. Unable to stop himself, Nacho asked, "You got a kid up here?"

Lalo gave him a brief wide-eyed look before he laughed, a warmer sound that Nacho had expected. "No, man!" There was a twinkle of amusement light up his dark, dark eyes. They were softer than his uncle's eyes, and Nacho did his best not to fixate on that. "A plant nursery!"

That was what the shovel was for, then. Nacho tried and failed to fight back a sigh of relief. "For herbs," he realized aloud. "Because you cook."

Still smiling, Lalo aimed a finger gun at him. "Exactly! You couldn't pay me to cook with the dried stuff. Tastes terrible." He wrinkled his nose as he said it. "Gonna get some pepper plants, too, maybe onions." He turned his gaze out the window again, drumming his fingers against its edge in time with the song playing softly over the radio. He'd turned the thing on the moment Nacho had turned the engine over. "Might be here for a while."

Nacho's stomach sank. He asked, "Are you taking over for Don Hector?" He normally wouldn't have bothered with the title, but he didn't know Lalo well enough to know if that was safe or not.

"Could be," Lalo said. He didn't sound bothered by the idea, either. How could he be so immediately comfortable so far from home? "Might be here until Tuco gets out, unless I can find someone else to run everything until then."

Nacho's stomach may well have been in his shoes when they finally pulled into the parking lot of the plant nursery. It was just a massive greenhouse, and it smelled of fresh dirt even before they stepped through the doors. It was muggy inside, occupied by a jungle of plants and huge stacks of bagged soils and pots and watering cans.

"Gonna need your help moving shit," Lalo was saying as he strode over to the selection of herbs that sat against the back wall of the greenhouse. "There's a lot we gotta grab." When Nacho moved to follow him, though, he added, "Three bags of soil, loamy, organic."

It took a moment for Nacho to process the order, but they parted ways there. He wasn't sure what loamy meant, but he found a few bags of soil marked with the label among the piles of their like, hefting them up and carrying them over to where Lalo was kneeling to inspect beds of herbs.

He glanced up from the basil plant he was studying, grinning and saying, "Look at you!" He rose from his knees, dusting off his trousers. "With arms like that, we'll make a gardener of you yet, eh, Nachito?" Lalo reached for one of the plants, plucking a single leaf and crushing it between his fingers. He held it out to Nacho, asking, "What do you think?"

Though he hesitated, Nacho clutched the bags of soil to his chest, leaning in to smell the crushed leaf. He said, "It's cilantro."

Lalo lifted his eyebrows. "But what does it smell like?"

Nacho wasn't sure how to answer. He shrugged. "Fresh," was the best he could do. "Kinda citrusy."

Tossing the leaf aside, Lalo said, "Smells like soap to me."

"You got that gene?" Why did that make Nacho feel superior? He only smiled when Lalo turned away from him again to check out a sad-looking oregano plant.

"Whole family does!" The reply came on a laugh. "A few of us're actually mildly allergic to it, but don't tell 'em I told you."

Nacho wondered, briefly, if you could kill a man with cilantro.

#the salamancas definitely have the cilantro tastes like soap gene #lacho #nacho varga #lalo salamanca #better call saul #bcs #my bcs

[ilikeyoshi]

being autistic with food/taste sensitivities that are severe even to other autistic ppl is the WORST. walmart substituted green peppers for red ones and my nachos turned out weird so i was looking it up and most ppl describe red peppers as "sweeter than green peppers, but the different shouldn't be too noticeable in a dish" meanwhile my nachos taste like SOAP LMFAO.

#IRONIC THAT THE CILANTRO ISN'T DOING IT BUT THE RED PEPPERS ARE???? #ive made this like 4-5 times with green peppers and cilantro. no soap taste. but red peppers taste like soap #yoshi talks

[plokoonsdisapprovingeyebrows]

exciting news! the kel dor conlang lexicon is at almost 1000 words apparently!

some fav recent additions:

gadinai — (vb.) // — to celebrate uproariously; to riot; [colloquial] to really lose one’s shit

kayamassi — (vb.) // — to persist, to keep going; largely used for encouragement, esp. cheering for a favourite sports team: kayamassi ge!

kolmagel — (n.) // — atmospheric pressure-sense, housed in the sensory horns (kolmi); air pressure

kyaogheran — (n.) // — warm outer garment similar to a poncho or a greatkilt, often woven with symbolic patterns or embroidered to show clan or village loyalties

nolna — (n.) // — heat-inducing spices as a class; a plant which produces chemicals kel dor perceive as spicy (and other species perceive as disgusting)

tsipangiri — (vb.) // — to have faith in a person; to be emotionally intimate with someone, to trust them with the details of your life (compare angiri, to simply trust someone to do their damn job)

tvaoruni — (vb.) // — to be at a standstill, to stagnate; [colloquial] to be bored comatose

uani karaak — (n.) // — a spirit of the sea mist said to appear in the guise of one’s loved ones to lead unwary travellers into the sea

zaygeli — (vb.) // — to make sweet, to cover with sugar; [colloquial] to sweeten a deal, to bribe, to entice with rewards, to go out of one’s way to be nice (in hope of reward, it is implied)

zikulikan — (n.) // — ceremonial dances performed on festival days; different dances are performed by different groups, and those performed by the Baran Dao can last for hours or even days.

#kel dor conlang #kel dor worldbuilding #for nolna i am imagining like turbo cilantro lmao #the soap taste plus pool chlorine plus vinegar #sort of thing u spit out on reflex bc something that tastes like that SURELY isn't edible