A continuation of an argument

[omorka]

It doesn't make sense to argue about whether broccoli and rutabaga are bitter or not. They're not bitter for me unless they're really old and poorly cooked, and even then they're perfectly edible. The exact same head of broccoli, cut up and steamed for six minutes, that just tastes green and sweet to me tastes bitter to some of you. Your TAS2R

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[northwall]

food and sex are two of my favorite things!
broccoli sometimes tastes bitter to me and sometimes not.
my sensory perception is odd in a different direction from most of you (and the people i think you're referring to): cannot smell real things most of the time (anosmia), but also hallucinate smells occasionally.

[geki_burakku]

I think the only people who DON'T like sex are humorless xian fundy types who see it as evil and necessary only for (mindless) reproduction. *chuckle*

[colorwhirl]

One: your statement is false, but I do not feel like having another discussion about the belittling of sexual abuse and assault victims.

Two: I was skimming and saw "xian"; my brain confused that with "azn", and I thought, "Asian fundies hate sex? What are they fundamental about?" Further reading removed my confusion and made me giggle at the processing error.

[geki_burakku]

To address the first part of your statement, was not even remotely intending to belittle those people at all, and I do apologize if you got that impression. Was not even remotely the idea. I was being facetious about humorless fundies more than anything else. I will never, EVER make fun of rape victims or sexual abuse survivors--that's just too wrong. Glad you got a chuckle out of at least part of my post. :D

[geki_burakku]

Broccoli is your friend, and it took me til I was 21 to figure this out. I love it dearly to this day.

[starcat_jewel]

I used to be able to eat broccoli, but now I can't get past the sulfur smell.

Oddly enough, cauliflower isn't affected by this; I still like it as long as it's actually cooked. Raw or undercooked cauliflower is tough and stringy.

[geki_burakku]

I have come to appreciate cauliflower, especially if it is cooked Mediterranean style--now we're talking. Sulfur? Funny you say that--I've never detected that odor with broccoli at all. Interesting...

[omorka]

Interesting. I only notice the sulfurous smell of any of the cruciferous vegetables if they've been way overcooked. It's not even detectable, for me, when they're raw.

(Then again, I wouldn't describe the texture of raw cauliflower as stringy, either, although 'tough' certainly applies to the stems.)

[colorwhirl]

The only thing tastier than fresh veggies is good science. Mmmm, science.

[omorka]

You're in luck - we have both in today! :-)

[emmacrew]

Oddly, I pretty much never find broccoli bitter, but rutabaga almost always so.

Also, the cilantro gene. Ugh.

[omorka]

Different glucosinolates, as it happens. So you can taste one but not the other.

And cilantro tastes like soap. Realizing that it wasn't that some people liked that flavor, it was that it honestly didn't taste like that to them, was part of the process in the above post, but I left it out because I wanted one positive and one negative example and two different senses.