The Secret Life Of Cilantro

More time-lapse plant photography for 2009. Taken with a Canon SX100IS + CHDK.

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[Jay18Jay]

@meatisdeliciouse You are probably some puerto rican who is just mad at cilantro because you kept finding it in your god damn beans!

[DJAnthonyillWill]

I didn't know you needed to smoke pot to watch this video.. WTF dude

[meatisdeliciouse]

Yeah, I would say i'm right at the end of the spectrum for intolerance.

[meatisdeliciouse]

@DanielEBurnette Yes yes, Other people don't understand my exctream reaction to it. I can remeber picking up one of those free samples at the bakery in the super store, I thought it contained sausage, but then I relised it was full of vegetables. So I asked if it hade cilantro in it. She said yes, and my first reaction was to put it back in disgust, of coarse the lady was horified at what I hade just done. I just looked at her as if to say, you trying to kill me? She did not understand.

[DanielEBurnette]

@meatisdeliciouse Definitely sounds your like your on far end of the spectrum of tolerance for cilantro, pretty extreme. As far as aldehydes; I dont think our parents would know what has that stuff in it, I just did the reasearch and I dont even know... the only things I know that have it are soap and lotion, certainly you experienced those before the age of 5. But then again- answer or coincidence. Interesting to see what that organization has to say.

[meatisdeliciouse]

I actualy wrote to a orgonisation that does reaserch into chemical smell and taste. I put some of my hair in, so they could test for the gene. I wonder if they will reply, I put enough coupons in to cover the postage back. There dislike of something, such as parsley, or mature cheddar. And I could possibly eat them if I was hungry enough. Cilantro on the other hand I don't think I could eat, even if I was starving to death, the revulsion is just to intense and strong.

[meatisdeliciouse]

@DanielEBurnette Well, I duno, I don't think my perants would have let that happen. I have a strange reaction to the smell, it causes breathing dificulties and makes me start to black out and feal dizy. It's so horible. I actualy find the sensation of a kidney stone a more palitable option. Even if there is only a tiny amount in my food, I just simply cannot eat it. I actualy scream in pain if I taste it. I can't describe the sensation, but it's absolutely agonising and painfiul.

[DanielEBurnette]

@meatisdeliciouse Well I dont know for certain the correct answer either. I read that the smell of cilantro is a modified fragments of fat molecules called aldehydes. And that aldehydes is found in many natural forms as well as household products. I could argue that you came in contact with aldehydes before the age of 5, and when you first tried cilantro your brain associated it back to the unfavorable substance that had aldehydes in it, explaining the dislike for it.

[meatisdeliciouse]

@DanielEBurnette Well thats funny, because acordin to my pereants, when I was a baby, any time they gave me cilantro, I threw up imidiately. The first time I remeber eating this demon weed was when I was 5, I imidiately threw up and felt sick, and I don't ever remeber eating soap or bugs. Actualy, the taste of soap doesnt make me throw up. I also have seen studies, we seem to read conflicting data, the studies I read say otherwies, I gues I'm just going to have to wait for a reply from the lab.

[DanielEBurnette]

@meatisdeliciouse Everything I found in published studies saids its your brain's association of cilantro with another unpleasant, previously encountered, substance. Usually soap, lotion or bugs. Like all other phobias, that's behavioral, not genetic.