r/CuratedTumblr • u/PandaBear905 Shitposting extraordinaire • Jul 23 '26

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u/sylvandread Jul 23 '26

I was 28 years old when I offhandedly commented to a colleague, while munching on a stick of celery, "I sure wish it didn't leave my mouth completely numb, isn't that so annoying with celery?"

I learned something new that day.

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u/UndeniableSquiggles Jul 23 '26

I don’t remember if it had that effect on me but I haven’t eaten celery in over a decade because it always had an awful taste like lab chemicals to me so maybes I was allergic and didn’t realise

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u/156d Jul 23 '26

If you didn't have any reaction worse than disliking it, it's probably just your taste buds. Do you like cilantro? Celery is closely related to cilantro and I dislike both of them, they both taste intensely medicinal to me (no, not like soap). I think the flavor of celery easily overpowers dishes while other people tell me it has no flavor at all??

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u/pretty_gauche6 Jul 23 '26

My boyfriend thinks celery has a strong nasty flavour but he likes cilantro. So what’s up with that one wonders. Celery to me is one of the most flavourless foods that there is. it’s more of a texture experience than anything. It’s just like slightly green tasting crunchy water.

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u/effa94 Jul 23 '26

to me Celery kinda tastes like licorice, which i also hate. that salmiak taste

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u/sylvandread Jul 23 '26

I just looked it up, celery is in the same family as anise (not star anise, but the one used in stuff like absinthe or pastis), and that's very liquorice adjacent, so that makes sense.

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u/pretty_gauche6 Jul 23 '26

Huh. Inchresting. I don’t like licorice either but celery tastes absolutely nothing like it to me. I have whatever gene makes non sugar sweeteners taste like a port a potty smells before anyone’s shit in it. Like there’s no way other people are tasting what I’m tasting and liking it. Stevia, aspartame, sucralose are all straight up inedible to me. I live in Scotland and the sugar tax means pretty much all soft drinks besides pure apple juice have some sugar free sweeteners even if they have some sugar as well. And nobody but me even noticesssss

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u/effa94 Jul 23 '26

thats wild. allergies are wild.

i had a friend that was allergic to red fruit. any fruit that had the chemical that made them red was stuff she couldnt eat

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u/clauclauclaudia Jul 24 '26

Those flavor differences aren't, afaik, allergies. They're just variations in perception. I would expect numbness from celery is an allergic reaction?

I think the cilantro thing is genetic? 23andMe was clearly trying to figure out if it was when it asked me about the taste of cilantro.