My assumption is she was intentionally parodying the Irish Spring ads.
BTW, the chemical (in cilantro and Irish Spring) you taste (and most just smell) are various aldehydes
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Not at all, and in fact my husband uses Irish Springs and I’ve never noticed a similarity at all. I honestly think cilantro tastes like a beautiful sunny day. Just green and fresh. Irish Springs smells nice, too, but in a perfume-y way. Both good smells. Not alike to me.
It’s interesting that you eat cilantro, TFR, because you sound like one of the soap-tasters. Here is a fuller explanation:
Researchers found that people who responded that cilantro tasted like bubble bath shared a gene, OR6A2, that codes the receptor that picks up the scent of aldehyde chemicals. Aldehydes can have distinctive smells like vanilian that, you guessed it, smells like vanilla. There are multiple aldehydes that contribute to cilantro’s smell and guess what? They’re also a bi-product of soap making…interesting.
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I read somewhere that it is a genetic difference - some people (myself included) has a variation in the olfactory-receptor genes, which results in cilantro tasting more or less like soap to us.
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I thought the soapy thing was coriander and not cilantro?
It’s very common to see “Doesn’t like coriander” on Tinder profiles in my area. And another thing, which is how tall they are. I could post this in the “Beliefs You Have That No One Suspects You Have”-thread as it’s so geographically constrained but I remain convinced that here in my country people actually don’t obsess about how tall/short their partners are and instead we’ve imported this “fetish” from the States. I.e., we imported Tinder-mannerisms that aren’t reflected in our culture.
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It is the same plant - just different names in various parts of the world.
Oh! 
At least it’s not the cinnamon debacle which had people tarnish their livers. Thankfully. Right? We’re only dealing with it tasting bad here? It doesn’t taste bad because they’re unable to digest it or something like that?
No, don’t think so, afaik it is only about taste.
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Coriander is actually the seeds of the cilantro plant. And in Spanish Cilantro means coriander. So maybe cilantro is just coriander, we’re all just stupid and Engrish is hard.
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English is easy, the problem is that you guys are all speaking American.
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That’s an interestingly specific preference to have on one’s dating profile. Where I live, people seem to love or hate coriander flavor, but it isn’t given much more than passing thought. On the other hand -
That’s a fascinating observation. Here in America, a partner’s height is much studied and talked about, with the conclusion that (American) women prefer a man sufficiently taller than themselves.
That makes a lot of sense now, because I have an uncannily accurate and strong sense of smell.
It’s actually how I zero in on different types of mushrooms.
I confess I’ve yet to discover why farts smell unpleasant
- luckily, my horried sense of smell hasn’t seemed to affect my cooking ability
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So I almost made a complete fool of myself in the gym in front of the hottest woman I’ve ever seen in my whole entire existence. Like internet magazines dreams porn… hottest. Of. All. Time.
Wanted to do some BOR’s and the gym was packed and all stations were taken. She was doing this weird dead lift thingy then kettle bell stuff almost like a superset type thing, but taking a long break between. She had about 175 on the bar, which would be a fine weight for me to row with and not bother adding more. Didn’t wanna go straight to 175ish so grabbed a straight curl bar 80 pounder and warmed up. Went over to ask to work in and explain what I wanted and she told me someone JUST came up and had laid claim to her rack as she was done. Bummer.
So at this point I just want to fucking row. Noticed a gym employee was standing in the empty bench press section. Asked him if it would be frowned upon to do rows there and he said go for it. Threw 135 around for about 15 reps as a warm up and added more. Turns out my grip was SHOT and I didn’t have my straps. Had to go back down to 135 and just do some high rep work.
You know how mortified I’d have been to grab her bar and then proceed to drop it!?!?! A random gym goer laying claim to a rack saved my life tonight.
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Well my good sense hasn’t helped mine any, so maybe we’re like equally opposite. 
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Same for my mom- easily the worst cook in the family… best sense of smell. The weird thing is that I’ve don’t like the taste of my “signature” dishes :
It hasn’t helped my cooking ability but my sense of smell is so amazing I can smell whether someone has liver failure, kidney failure, GI bleed, UTI or Cliff just based on their pee or poop smell.
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I liked that. But idk why. It’s more of a “whaaaaaa” like then a like like
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I assume this is somehow related to your line of work otherwise 
Yes I’ve been in the medical field for 18 yrs. EMS and then nursing. Prior to that raised by a mother who had no sense of smell due to a TBI - so I was the official nose of the family.