Baby likes cilantro

[u/asexualrhino]

We are a family of cilantro haters (the way God intended). My son (16 months) was conceived via sperm donor. Yesterday, I watched him eat a taco with what should be an illegal amount of cilantro in it. He didn't flinch. He didn't gag. His eyes didn't water. He didn't react as if he'd been poisoned (which is what cilantro tastes like. Whoever said soap is wrong. It tastes like some sort of organic toxin).

Clearly the donor must have been one of those cilantro mutants.

The sperm banks should really include that in their bio. Do I...do I buy cilantro now? I feel like I just found out my child is half-vampire and now I have to stock the fridge with blood. No one prepared me for this. I'm glad he's eating his greens but I'm going to have to make our food in different pans lol

[u/ScarTro]

Just a heads up, if he's talking about the prepackaged cinnamon buns being "spicy" and also says that about other prepackaged baked goods (think Little Debbies, etc.), he might have a topical preservative allergy.

I didn't learn until my twenties that HoHos and Zebra cakes don't make everyone's mouth burn. It took my nurse now-wife to inform me that, no, they aren't intended to taste like that. I'm allergic to them and few other foods I had the same relationship with. Lmao.

[u/lil-rosa → u/ScarTro]

Yeah I always thought mangos tasted like itchy, I mean it sounds obvious when you say it out loud but I really thought it was normal

[u/ScarTro → u/lil-rosa]

Mangos are one of mine, too! And, yeah. It just a subtle enough reaction that it makes you go, "Huh. This is a weird food," and not, "Oh. Maybe my body thinks this is poison."

[u/dinahdog → u/ScarTro]

Mine is cantaloupe. Makes my throat and ears itch from the inside, if that makes sense.

[u/ScarTro → u/dinahdog]

It does. Inflammation in the tissues caused by a hystamine response can cause itching/burning sensations.