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I have the same thing. Maybe not quite that powerful, but as a kid I used to root out ant hills to shove sticks in and be a general terror. I thought it was normal until I started dating a girl and we went on a picnic and pointed them out saying we shouldn’t eat there. If I smash one it smells like someone opened a can of gas in the room.
https://youtu.be/ZHJG48NSWzg had to do it
You’re a genetic masterpiece.
Yes, I hope she realized that she should have a family with that guy. Those genes need preserving
And when did Charles Xavier reach out to you?
Forget Westchester - my boy Shino here has a whole clan, come to Konoha
When I was 14, but I asked if he had a sister cause I’m into girls with shaved heads, and he just waved his hand and gave me ADHD and then walked away.
From what I last heard, X and his sister aren’t exactly on speaking terms.
He’s like an X-Men hero designed to find Ant-Man when he gets stuck between couch cushions or something.
I can do this too.
You can, but do you hunt?
If I smell them in my house, you’re damned right I do!
Weirdo.
…I like that about you.
yeah a small % of folks can smell them.
Last time I was reading through comments from those who could, the common response was “sorta like raisins”
A little like cilantro
I’m one of the ones that dislike the smell of cilantro as it is repugnant. (to me)
Old cilantro that’s starting to go bad maybe. That has a very “earthy” smell similar to an over-watered plant
Spicy raisins
Gon Freecss moment
An anteater in a human suit
If I touch an ant I can certainly smell it on my finger but I wouldn’t be able to detect an ant in the room with me
I can’t say I’ve ever gotten ant on my finger then proceeded to smell my finger.
When I was a kid it was a thing to stick a stick into a nest of ants so they’d piss on it so you could then suck/sniff the stick for a… sensation.
I never did as I didn’t want to bother the ants.
Chimp coded
I can’t do that, I think you have special ant powers
I can register formic acid if I touch an ant or am fairly close. Probably wouldn’t smell an ant from a distance, though
Like some kind of any man
Fuck I have the stupid shitty cilantro gene and there’s some dudes with ant hunting genes?
Not fair :(
I put soap and cilantro into stuff i make so no one feels superior
“Now it sucks for me and you! Just kidding, I like the taste of soap.”
I love cilantro, but if I put enough on a taco or something I can taste a little bit of soapiness. It isn’t bad enough to put me off of it, but I get it.
It’s funny. Cilantro tastes weird and I don’t like it, but I wouldn’t say it tastes soapy. That said, whenever I have it, I always notice this weird taste, but never actually recognize it. Then I check the ingredients and there it is.
Cilantro in salsa is so good. Something about how the flavor of the tomato acts with it… I need to make some salsa now.
I can smell ants. I’ve eaten one before. They taste like iron. Like blood mixed with pepper. Idk why I told you that just now.
Different ants taste different!
I’ve had ants that taste like fizzy lime…
The one I ate was one of those big black ones. Not the huge ones that wander around by themselves, but the normal colony black ants that are large enough to easily pick up.
They taste awful. Like licking a battery.
That’s a great explanation! Yes, that’s what they taste like.
you’re welcome to untell me
There’s no putting the ink back on the bottle.
Not something I ever wondered, but it’s a pretty neat anecdote.
I think it smells more like vinegar.
If her bf is an anteater, good for her, I’d say. 😏 On a more serious note, I think I have the opposite, cause I’ve never felt the apparently dreadful smell that stinkbugs emit when threatened or squished.
Oh I have that with mosquitoes, my parents even wake up when they sting, but I feel nothing, I always have some big ones filled with blood in the morning because they feast on me all night long.
You sure those aren’t ticks?
You evolved to be their ultimate menace.
Some comments are calling it a genetic quirk, but I submit to you all that it is the ones that lack the ability that have a deficiency.
I have an anteater but I can’t smell the ants
You gotta show em who’s the real boss. Hold tight and jerk hard until successful complaince is observed
Am I also deficient if I lack the ability to taste soap when I eat cilantro?
please eat all the cilantro so we never have to see it on a dish again
I’m one of the very rare people that have the gene that makes cilantro taste like soap, but likes it. I blame the soap flavoured gum I had as a kid here in Canada.
So maybe save a little soaplantro for those that want it ;)
cilantro tastes like soap for you ? no way, is this real ?
It’s pretty common. I mourn for those that aren’t freakish enough to actually want to eat soap. I mourn for those like the parent too, but for different reasons.
Yes because it makes you worse at finding and disposing of those damn stink bugs, whose stink smells vaguely like how soapy cilantro tastes because of aldehydes.
mom, my nuts?
I equate it to the smell of juniper berries.
I could see “gasoline”. Maybe peppery.
Lee Mack can smell dead flies
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tEBL5HR9Cuo&pp=ygUgbGVlIG1hY2sgc21lbGwgYSBmbHkgaW4gdGhlIHJvb20%3D
I can smell dead flies. They stink.
Damn, I really believed him
This is exactly what I thought about increasing this! I asked my bf what bug it was because I couldn’t remember for sure. If only I’d kept scrolling before asking, lol.
I can smell a single bedbug. That smell is terrifying
Yes, what do they smell like?
It’s a sour bitter smell. Hard to describe, but I know it when I smell it. I fled to the SW US to never smell them again
…what do they smell like?
It’s a sour bitter smell. I fled to the SW US so I never smell them again
