I love cilantro… but I agree, it does smell like stinkbugs. I didn’t realize this until I lived in Maryland, which is being invaded by the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug. Now, whenever I eat something with cilantro in it, I have a brief moment of panic as I wonder if a stink bug fell into the pot while it was cooking. Again.
So anyway, cilantro tastes good to me (stink bug comparisons aside). On the other hand, celery tastes absofuckinglutely awful to me. It’s like someone dragging their fingernails down a chalkboard. And it’s in everything.
I can roll my tongue and I make a point out of peeing after eating asparagus. I’m not sure what it’s called, but I have the power to cloud men’s minds by hollering, “Hey! Y’all look over there!”
They’re edible, so no worries! They make a great substitue if you’re all out of cilantro…
RE: all the asparagus pee mentions, I have an asparagus pee story that may be a bit TMI, so be warned…
I never tried asparagus until I worked at a place in my early 20s that had an employee cafeteria. They occasionally served asparagus, and I fell in love with it to the point that I started buying fresh asparagus at produce places and eating tons of it all the time. When I started noticing constant asparagus pee smell, I had no idea what it was, and I thought I had a bladder infection. I actually went to a urologist, who tested me for infections and all manner of STIs (I passed all tests).
It wasn’t until awhile later that I put two and two together.
I have what other people like to call a “Gene Simmons” tongue. It’s very long and I can touch my tongue to my nose quite easily.
For some reason, I’ve never thought of my teeth as anything genetically passed down, I thought it was all environmental. So I’m not sure if this counts, but it took a really long time to lose all my baby teeth. I was at least 18, maybe even 19 or 20 when the last of my baby teeth came out.
ETA: I just Googled it and it appears that delayed tooth eruption can, indeed, be genetic.
Oh, this is fascinating. First of all, no, they did not. But I just took a good look at the underside of my tongue, and I don’t see any frenulum at all!
I can roll my tongue sides-upwards, into a U shape, like many folks–but can anyone roll theirs downwards? With the upper surface of the tongue up and the sides down? I’ve never seen anyone do that.
What do you mean by debunked? All us kids could roll our tongues, but our mom couldn’t. We laughed our asses off at her attempts.
Oh, man, sometimes I wonder if I’m a chimera*, I’m so asymmetrical. Even my ears are different heights on my face, so wearing glasses without them going askew is really hard.
There are twins in the family line, so it’s not impossible.
I could never do this. I was born with shortened ligaments in my thumbs, and I have really limited range of motion as a result. Mainly because I wouldn’t do the stretching exercises the doctor wanted me to do when I was a freaking baby, mom.
I can roll my tongue. I had five wisdom teeth. My end of 2nd toes (the ones next to the big toe) are bent. Like the one in this picture, but not not quite as much. And my 3rd toes are flattened like the ones in the picture.
I’m right-handed andcan’t write well in the normal manner with my left hand, but my left hand is very comfortable with mirror-writing. No idea what that’s about.
I can also wiggle my eyeballs side-to-side. Sort of a shimmy effect. I’m told it looks quite peculiar from the outside.
I can open my eustachian tubes at will without swallowing, and hold them open. I can also swallow without opening them, though if I don’t specifically try to do this, they open when I swallow. I can’t do any of this on specifically one side or the other, though, it’s both or none.
I have no wisdom teeth, extracted or erupted or hidden or migrated or anything else.
I can sometimes blow air out my tear ducts, though it’s not comfortable and makes a mess on the inside of my glasses.
It was thought by early researchers in inheritance to be a simple dominant/recessive trait, and it’s still being included in biology lessons as such. Later research have shown though that it is more complicated than that.
It’s not as uncommon as some of the things that’ve been mentioned, but I have hitchhiker’s thumbs - I can bend both of my thumbs backwards at the knuckle by almost 90 degrees.
I’m your polar opposite. I clicked through a link on the page naita posted, which shows the spectrum of thumb shapes you could have, and mine is the very top one.
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