Honest question. I’m terrified of failure ;-;
Anyway, I know I’m not the only one who’s wished hand soap was edible.

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Weird story:

I like cilantro, but there was one Dr. Oetker’s frozen pizza that had cilantro on it that somehow tasted like garbage diapers to me. Idk, maybe someone put actual garbage diapers on it in the factory.

I don’t trust frozen pizzas now… still like cilantro though.

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maybe someone put actual garbage diapers on it in the factory.

That’s what you get if capitalists don’t allow workers sufficient bathroom breaks.

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It tastes like soap and I feel neutral towards it. Mangoes also taste slightly soapy to me, especially if they’re not totally ripe yet.

And you’re doing great

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On the subject of other things that taste like soap, oregano also tastes like soap to me. I can’t tell if I’m blessed or even more cursed for liking that taste.

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Hmm. I don’t know if it’s soapy, but I don’t really like oregano. I guess I’ll have to pay attention to why next time I try it

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It doesn’t taste like soap to me and I still don’t like it ._.

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Mangoes are picked very green so they can survive transport. Getting one that has ripened fully on the tree is a wholly different experience (those big red yellow and green ones are transcendent)

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Coriander btw

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Unless you’re talking about the seeds… I’m pretty sure that’s only what British people call it

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what is cilantro? is it a herb? that’s what i see online…

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It’s what the Americans call coriander leaves. If you haven’t come across that name either it is indeed a herb.

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I had no idea the term wasn’t used in other places. That’s interesting. I’ll have to keep that in mind in the future.

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What is even more confusing is that apparently, “cilantro” is only used for the stems and leaves, while the rest of the plant (the seeds especially) are still called coriander.

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Everything’s edible at least once!

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How about Mount Everest?

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start at the top and work your way down

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Just because it’s edible doesn’t mean you can eat it. My dad’s raisin rolls are definitely edible, but alas they are also 5k miles away from me.

Edit, sorry for the pedantry, I just couldn’t help myself

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you cannot eat pedantry

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If there is no single being on earth that is able to eat it, I’d consider it non-edible. Even if all humans and animals worked together, they could at best eat some parts of the mountain. But that I’d rather consider eating rocks, not eating ‘the mountain’.

If we define absorbtion of the mountain by a black hole as eating, I might accept that. Otherwise I double down. :P

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Eating the entire thing is not generally a requirement for something being edible. You can’t eat an entire cow, yet cow meat is considered edible (and if you want to say “but you can freeze a cow and eat it bit by bit”, consider an adult blue whale - I don’t think one human eats that much meat in a lifetime).

You can absolutely eat rocks, most of them aren’t even that bad for you if they’re somewhat smooth and not too large. Or just grind it down into a powder and bake it into bread, mix it into a milkshake or make a pill out of it. “healing earth” is a thing (helps with digestion) and it’s just clay, you’re supposed to either take it as a pill or mix it into water.

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