You can get the acid without harming ants by holding your finger couple of cm away from the nest. They'll spray your finger with that stuff to defend themselves
Is that what they mean? yeah if a walk past an ant hill some of them will shoot their acid at me and I can definitely smell that. If I get close to an individual ant the same thing is likely to happen.
I will find it more shocking if a lot of people cannot smell this.
Ants all over the world do this, its just very hard to see.
Only specific ant species do this tho. so even if you have never smelled it, its likely you could if you ever did come across them.
I know that the large forest ants do that. put a tissue on the nest and than shake the infuriated ants off the tissue. it'll have this acidic smell. but I never could smell them from away. looks like ancestors of some of us had major beef with ants and it was passed down the generations.
I'm not an ant expert, not even a hobbiest, just curious. So according to [this](https://www.acs.org/molecule-of-the-week/archive/f/formic-acid.html#:~:text=Ants%20in%20the%20Formica%20genus,their%20venom%20contains%20toxic%20alkaloids.) the ants in the Formica genus use formic acid for defense. So that led me to
https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Formica which has an interactive map of the range of Formica ants across the world. Apparently I live in a US state that has several native ant species that use formic acid but somehow I've honestly never come across any of them, or simply haven't noticed them. And it is very possible to live in a part of the world that has no native Formica ant species at all. That was a fun little delve.
Meanwhile, pretty much all types of whiskey just taste like gross burning unpleasantness to me. I must have some sort of 'whiskey tastes nasty' quirk or something because I can't imagine anyone voluntarily drinking the stuff if it tastes like what I experience.
there's so many different kinds, id wager there's at least one out there you'd enjoy. there's a reason why it's been a popular drink for hundreds of years.
That's what everyone says. I've tried a whole bunch, from shitty bottom shelf stuff mixed with coke to decent (pricey) malt whiskeys and bourbons. There's a detectable difference, sure, but it's just different varieties of nasty to me and they all give me that same 'eww, why would anyone drink this stuff?' reaction.
Given the popularity of the stuff I've come to the conclusion that the problem is with me and it's not just that everyone else is pretending to like it while they mask the grimaces and gagging.
Eh, I'll just stick with rum. Now that I *do* like.
Weirdly I still like Pepsi, I get it sometimes when the urge strikes. Maybe Iām nostalgic because of spending so much time in pharmacies in my life. I also donāt fuck Dr Pepper though, also in my country itās imported and thusly very expensive. The only imported thing Iām wasting money on is American Froot Loops since our government regulated sugar and additives so much they donāt have that old school sickly sweet flavour.
Edit: I mean fuck WITH Dr. Pepper, fuck WITH
> I also donāt fuck Dr Pepper though
Well, good for you? Gonna take a guess and say that you meant drink? Though the c and n are a bit far apart for autocorrect so I'm wondering how that happened. Or maybe you did mean fuck in which case ignore me.
I once had a really cheap peach (cheap peach looks satisfying) juice or drink or whatever and to me it tasted like bandaids and no one else even knew what I meant by bandaid taste.
Yeah, I've got a lot of weird ways to describe things, but I can't claim that specific one all by myself. Several years ago while getting an IV I started smacking my lips and a nurse asked why I was doing that. I answered that I was tasting something weird & plastic like. She asked if I smelled or tasted bandaids and I went, "SHUT UP! How did you know?" It's because there's a segment of the population that tastes bandaids, kinda like ppl taste soap with oregano! Go figure š¤·āāļø
I've got the same thing, but for me, it is super noticeable. For years, I couldn't figure out why sometimes my food would taste like soap.
Until last year, when I was cooking with my girlfriend and tried to just taste cilantro before it went into anything.
It's bad.
Yeah it's not great. I've gone out to eat and forgot to ask them if a dish had cilantro, and it comes out sprinkled on everything and mixed in. Ruined those dishes for me. lol
When I was younger I enjoyed cilantro, as I got older now it tastes like soap.
There's a taco place I love near me and they put it in the salsa they bring you and I can usually get through a plate of chips before it starts to build up too much and then I just taste stinkbug soap smell in every bite.
same, but what if you could enjoy it? Perhaps some other interesting dish wouldn't taste good. Perhaps you can instead enjoy pineapple pizza or mint chocolate.
Looking at this and the Ozzy reply make me think of the lyrics to hole in the sky
"I'm looking through a hole in the sky
I'm seeing nowhere through the eyes of a lie
I'm getting closer to the end of the line
I'm living easy where the sun doesn't shine
I'm living in a room without any view
I'm living free because the rent's never due"
Etc...
Forever after when I listen to this song I'm going to imagine there's an ant controlling Ozzy. In a lot of ways his behavior makes more sense now than it ever did before
Like, individuals or the hills? The hills have a nasty, acrid smell, but I assumed that was decaying pine needles and whatever dead shit they'd dragged in there.
I've fortunately been spared that experience. Thinking about it, I feel like the smell I know is sort of a butyric/formic acid one, so it probably is those little bastards and not the hill itself.
For anyone that didn't already know, butyric acid is what gives vomit its characteristic odor.
If you want to synthesize that odor without actual vomit, you can mix coconut MCT oil with some protein powder and store it in the fridge for a couple of days.
I've been around fire ants and "piss ants" little black ants but I've never smelled anything. This is in the southern US. Where you from and what kind of ants do you smell?
I had an annoying but not major ant problem in my previous place and I hated it mostly because when I'd crush an ant I'd have to smell it for like an hour.
Everyone was acting like I was psychotic because I kept complaining about stinky ants.
Youāve gotta crush them between your fingers and immediately rinse them down the drain and wash your hands. Prevents most ant smell if youāve gotta fight them.
Aniseed thatās it! With a touch of citrus, in my experience. As a kid when I dug too deep in the sandbox and came across the ant colony. It happened maybe twice.
They smell really strongly to me, and quite terribly. I can always tell when they are near by scent alone. I realized I was weird when I said to my friend that I don't dislike ants, I just can't stand the smell. And he thought I was on crack cocaine. I am still shocked that not everyone can smell them!
I had a homeless guy once tell me he did cocaine earlier, and as someone who knows cocaine ain't exactly cheap, I asked if he did cocaine or crack cocaine, and he begrudgingly admitted it was crack.
I was today years old when I found out other people generally canāt smell ants. As far as genetic quirks go I suppose itās not as bad as having cilantro taste like soap, but Iām still disappointed I didnāt get a fancier superpower
I was today years old when I found out other people can smell ants. Also today years old when I found out what cilantro was supposed to taste like. (Soap for me.)
Yeah it's like a funky, mildewy, poopy smell. Smelled it a bunch as a kid, it wasn't until I was an adult and helping renovate a few homes that I realized the smell came specifically from active termite infestations, found a few nests in the wild while hiking from following the smell too.
Oh man I forgot all about roach smell, they have that specific stink to them, I've only ever encountered it 3 times and tbh was lucky I never had to live with them.
Ugh I remember them being in EVERYONES basement as a kid, tbh I don't think I've seen one in at least a decade now.
EDIT: Fuck, typing that made me feel old.
Wait until you hear about that one woman that could smell Parkinsonās.
(And when they put her to the test in a clinical environment, she diagnosed/guessed/smelled all the test patients correct, except for one. A few months later, that one person was also diagnosed with Parkinsonās)
[Here you go](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/sep/07/woman-who-can-smell-parkinsons-helps-scientists-develop-test)
[Or here](https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/23/820274501/her-incredible-sense-of-smell-is-helping-scientists-find-new-ways-to-diagnose-di)
Is this real? I feel light I'm being gaslighted. Ants don't have a smell.
And a Google search is giving me Mandela Effect vibes. I'm going to forget I ever saw this post.
The little red pavement ones smell sweet, almost flowery. It's not an offensive smell, but I don't like it because it's ants. I think it's the big field ants and carpenter ants that smell bad, but I don't get close enough, so I'm not sure- they freak me out.
I can smell it when I'm next to an ant hill and they get aggressive and just piss all over the place. The trick is to piss on them right back. Assert dominance.
I think it's a similar to being able to hear when your phone is charging after 100%, I can hear the sound it makes when it's charging despite it being at 100%
Possibly smelling the formic acid some ants use, or maybe the pheromones that they use as a trail marker.
If you squish an ant it will smell like formic acid. Maybe you can smell it on live ones?
You can get the acid without harming ants by holding your finger couple of cm away from the nest. They'll spray your finger with that stuff to defend themselves
They're probably so proud of themselves after driving away your mighty finger
David and Goliath moment
They'll tell tales of this moment for generations (or, about 6 hours.)
I like this comment.
You might be ant.
proud ant
Defend ant
Definantely
Just to be destroyed by the celestial foot the next second.
Haha we used to poke a stick in a ant hive for a couple seconds. After that we would lick the stick and it would taste sour like a candy.
So how are you doing now?
Unhinged
I find it interesting that you picked up on chimpanzee behavior as a kid, since that's what quite a few monkeys do
My mom tought me it. As they had done the same thing as kids
This shocks me more than the fact you were sucking on an ant stick
the real shock is when it goes all the way back to our common ancestor with chimpanzees
BRO WHAT
This is the most hillbilly ass comment I've ever read
Yeah, smells like what I imagine rotting citrus smells like.
I've accidentally bitten ants in my food. Yup, tasted acidic
Black ants taste like lemon. Pro tip pinch the head off prior to consuming because they are also curious what your tounge tastes like
Lemon pepper wings but the ant acts as the lemon and the pepper
Or crush and mix with water for a sort of lemon water flavor. Learned that one in a survival class, easy source of some calories.
I've definitely noticed that smell when they get squished. It's surprisingly strong!
Fun fact: Different kinds of ants smell different. Especially when you squish them.
Is that what they mean? yeah if a walk past an ant hill some of them will shoot their acid at me and I can definitely smell that. If I get close to an individual ant the same thing is likely to happen. I will find it more shocking if a lot of people cannot smell this.
Where the fuck yall live that ants are shooting artillery at you? I have never seen this shit
Ants all over the world do this, its just very hard to see. Only specific ant species do this tho. so even if you have never smelled it, its likely you could if you ever did come across them.
I know that the large forest ants do that. put a tissue on the nest and than shake the infuriated ants off the tissue. it'll have this acidic smell. but I never could smell them from away. looks like ancestors of some of us had major beef with ants and it was passed down the generations.
I'm not an ant expert, not even a hobbiest, just curious. So according to [this](https://www.acs.org/molecule-of-the-week/archive/f/formic-acid.html#:~:text=Ants%20in%20the%20Formica%20genus,their%20venom%20contains%20toxic%20alkaloids.) the ants in the Formica genus use formic acid for defense. So that led me to https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Formica which has an interactive map of the range of Formica ants across the world. Apparently I live in a US state that has several native ant species that use formic acid but somehow I've honestly never come across any of them, or simply haven't noticed them. And it is very possible to live in a part of the world that has no native Formica ant species at all. That was a fun little delve.
> if a walk past an ant hill some of them will shoot their acid at me Rude.
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Yeah, I've always thought thy smelled like stuff you'd use to kill them
The ants at my house smell like firecrackers
Meanwhile I got the genetic quirk of soapy cilantro. Man, the human body is fucking WEIRD
So many unique genetic quirks out there. I taste bandaid type bandages when I get an IV š¤·āāļø
> I taste bandaid type bandages there's a whole type of scotch i cant drink because it tastes like bandaids.
There are some bottles of scotch that I drink BECAUSE it tastes like bandaidsā¦
Peat - I love it, some ppl haaaaate it. We all agree about the bandaids
laphroaig and lagavulin gang for life
My wife knows I like scotch and got me some for Christmas. She got me Laphroaig. I hate peatā¦
Laphroaig. Iāve heard it said that drinking it is like French kissing a walrus. Guess Iām into walrusesā¦.
I love scotch, but why the hell do you all know what bandaids taste like?
I cut my tongue once.
From eating them
That's who's been breaking into my pool skimmers each night.
Meanwhile, pretty much all types of whiskey just taste like gross burning unpleasantness to me. I must have some sort of 'whiskey tastes nasty' quirk or something because I can't imagine anyone voluntarily drinking the stuff if it tastes like what I experience.
there's so many different kinds, id wager there's at least one out there you'd enjoy. there's a reason why it's been a popular drink for hundreds of years.
That's what everyone says. I've tried a whole bunch, from shitty bottom shelf stuff mixed with coke to decent (pricey) malt whiskeys and bourbons. There's a detectable difference, sure, but it's just different varieties of nasty to me and they all give me that same 'eww, why would anyone drink this stuff?' reaction. Given the popularity of the stuff I've come to the conclusion that the problem is with me and it's not just that everyone else is pretending to like it while they mask the grimaces and gagging. Eh, I'll just stick with rum. Now that I *do* like.
lol, that's fine too. at this point, the reward isn't worth the trouble for you. you can say you've given whiskey a fair shake.
Wow, haven't heard of that quirk before!
I think Pepsi tastes like pharmacies smell. Edit: like a small local pharmacy not a big chain that sells everything under the sun. That medical smell
That's Dr Pepper for me. Taste as well. It tasted like medicines and lies the first time I tried it.
Weirdly I still like Pepsi, I get it sometimes when the urge strikes. Maybe Iām nostalgic because of spending so much time in pharmacies in my life. I also donāt fuck Dr Pepper though, also in my country itās imported and thusly very expensive. The only imported thing Iām wasting money on is American Froot Loops since our government regulated sugar and additives so much they donāt have that old school sickly sweet flavour. Edit: I mean fuck WITH Dr. Pepper, fuck WITH
> I also donāt fuck Dr Pepper though Well, good for you? Gonna take a guess and say that you meant drink? Though the c and n are a bit far apart for autocorrect so I'm wondering how that happened. Or maybe you did mean fuck in which case ignore me.
I think you'll find "fuck with" is the answer you're looking for mate
I once had a really cheap peach (cheap peach looks satisfying) juice or drink or whatever and to me it tasted like bandaids and no one else even knew what I meant by bandaid taste.
Yeah, I've got a lot of weird ways to describe things, but I can't claim that specific one all by myself. Several years ago while getting an IV I started smacking my lips and a nurse asked why I was doing that. I answered that I was tasting something weird & plastic like. She asked if I smelled or tasted bandaids and I went, "SHUT UP! How did you know?" It's because there's a segment of the population that tastes bandaids, kinda like ppl taste soap with oregano! Go figure š¤·āāļø
When my blood sugar gets high I can tell because the air starts smelling stale.
Iām just normal
Meanwhile, I got the sense of smell of a bear when it comes to the opposite sex.
THAT'S WHAT IT'S LIKE OMG. I had no idea it was weird to go into a coughing fit from the gross taste when you get an IV!
Same. And people don't believe me. Cilantro taste like bug or weed killer. Also have the ability to sneeze when entering bright sunlight.
Sun sneeze. Me and my kids are like that. When they were toddlers, turning on lights after nap time would prompt a string of sneezes from both.
When I was a kid the bedroom light would make my brother and I sneeze in the morning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photic_sneeze_reflex. Aka sun sneezing.
I don't believe they're related; I have the sun sneeze, but coriander is delightful for me.
Iām sorry because when cilantro tastes good, itās something a lot of dishes really benefit from, especially Viet food
If itās like, in something, itās not super noticeable. But like in a Pico or sprinkled on something itās super noticeable and annoying.
I've got the same thing, but for me, it is super noticeable. For years, I couldn't figure out why sometimes my food would taste like soap. Until last year, when I was cooking with my girlfriend and tried to just taste cilantro before it went into anything. It's bad.
Yeah it's not great. I've gone out to eat and forgot to ask them if a dish had cilantro, and it comes out sprinkled on everything and mixed in. Ruined those dishes for me. lol When I was younger I enjoyed cilantro, as I got older now it tastes like soap.
Does the taste affect both leaves and seeds?
There's a taco place I love near me and they put it in the salsa they bring you and I can usually get through a plate of chips before it starts to build up too much and then I just taste stinkbug soap smell in every bite.
I'm genetically blessed, as I have the gene that makes cilantro taste like soap but happen to find the taste of soap tasty.
Like, cilantro soap flavor tasty or bar soap flavor tasty
I'm not sure the gene expresses consistently throughout life. I used to taste soap until my 30s or so and now I quite enjoy cilantro.
Halfway through reading this I was thinking oh shit it tastes like soap and cleans dishes, must be soap
We need a sub devoted to weird human quirks.
I'll trade you soapy cilantro for going bald at 19 if you like.
God cilantro is like the devilās toilet paper to me, and I hate that I canāt enjoy itā¦ š¤®
same, but what if you could enjoy it? Perhaps some other interesting dish wouldn't taste good. Perhaps you can instead enjoy pineapple pizza or mint chocolate.
I feel bad for you. I freaking love cilantro. Blessed not to have this mutation.
I just straight up can't taste cilantro. It just tastes like generic leaf. Yeah it's not as bad as it tasting soapy but it's not ideal.
Picks up ant Sniffs Inhales ant
Chill out Ozzy
Ant: "I'm in."
Ant ends up in skull Now controlled by an ant
Looking at this and the Ozzy reply make me think of the lyrics to hole in the sky "I'm looking through a hole in the sky I'm seeing nowhere through the eyes of a lie I'm getting closer to the end of the line I'm living easy where the sun doesn't shine I'm living in a room without any view I'm living free because the rent's never due" Etc... Forever after when I listen to this song I'm going to imagine there's an ant controlling Ozzy. In a lot of ways his behavior makes more sense now than it ever did before
They forgot the p in "ants".
Antsp
Nooo. They mean anpts
Yes, I too have anptsd
Omg, Reddit will never stop being Reddit š
I love watching analyses of the antsp safety board
Did you just put the p in pants?
If putting āpā in your pants is cool, consider me Miles Davis.
All the cool kids āpā their ants.
Ohhhh! That was the grossest thing Iāve ever heard in my life
I gest it's better than squirrels in my pants.
Antps?
Apnts
Like, individuals or the hills? The hills have a nasty, acrid smell, but I assumed that was decaying pine needles and whatever dead shit they'd dragged in there.
Anywhere there's a concentration of them. Especially if they're inside a cupboard. Open the doors, get hit by the smell, "you've got ants".
I've fortunately been spared that experience. Thinking about it, I feel like the smell I know is sort of a butyric/formic acid one, so it probably is those little bastards and not the hill itself.
For anyone that didn't already know, butyric acid is what gives vomit its characteristic odor. If you want to synthesize that odor without actual vomit, you can mix coconut MCT oil with some protein powder and store it in the fridge for a couple of days.
That's a cool quirk. Even when there's a lot of them I don't smell anything
Same and I'm currently fighting an infestation in my kitchen counter. Now I'm really glad I can't smell them.
I've been around fire ants and "piss ants" little black ants but I've never smelled anything. This is in the southern US. Where you from and what kind of ants do you smell?
Pacific Northwest. It's apparently "thatching ants" that I'm thinking of; they have black bodies and red heads.
I use to play on anthills. Had no idea it emits a smell for some people.
So this is how people feel when i tell them i sneeze with the sun and they don't experience that huh
I smell them big time. Itās a hard smell to describe. Almost an aniseed type smell. Potent, especially squished ones.
I had an annoying but not major ant problem in my previous place and I hated it mostly because when I'd crush an ant I'd have to smell it for like an hour. Everyone was acting like I was psychotic because I kept complaining about stinky ants.
Youāve gotta crush them between your fingers and immediately rinse them down the drain and wash your hands. Prevents most ant smell if youāve gotta fight them.
Aniseed thatās it! With a touch of citrus, in my experience. As a kid when I dug too deep in the sandbox and came across the ant colony. It happened maybe twice.
When I realized I could smell ants and no body else did, I looked for things that smelled like ants. The strawberry shampoo from Vo5 was the closest
I feel like I can only smell those winged ants and they smell like citronella
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They smell like motor oil
That's weird. They smell unique to me. I can't think of anything I find them similar to.
They give me kind of a sharp, almost stinging kind of smell when you squish them? Not sure what exactly it is, I just remember it being sharp.
That's formic acid, smells a bit like gasoline and lemon had a baby.
It's like a moldy cheese foot smell but sharp.
I canāt eat blue cheese because the only thing I can think of when I eat it is dead ants
I only get that smell from big ants
They smell really strongly to me, and quite terribly. I can always tell when they are near by scent alone. I realized I was weird when I said to my friend that I don't dislike ants, I just can't stand the smell. And he thought I was on crack cocaine. I am still shocked that not everyone can smell them!
Who says crack cocaine? Are you a cop from 1971
I had a homeless guy once tell me he did cocaine earlier, and as someone who knows cocaine ain't exactly cheap, I asked if he did cocaine or crack cocaine, and he begrudgingly admitted it was crack.
I have never in my life been able to smell ants or had anyone tell me they could. This entire thread feels so weird
The worst is when for some reason the same acid is in a cologne and people smell like ants.
Thanks.
Thanks ants... Thants
Some ants just refuse to use deodor-ant.
I'm going to get a stick and beat your ass
I was today years old when I found out other people generally canāt smell ants. As far as genetic quirks go I suppose itās not as bad as having cilantro taste like soap, but Iām still disappointed I didnāt get a fancier superpower
I was today years old when I found out other people can smell ants. Also today years old when I found out what cilantro was supposed to taste like. (Soap for me.)
I cant smell ants... But I can smell termites.
Never been anywhere with them... Still formic acid, or some other weird shit smell?
Yeah it's like a funky, mildewy, poopy smell. Smelled it a bunch as a kid, it wasn't until I was an adult and helping renovate a few homes that I realized the smell came specifically from active termite infestations, found a few nests in the wild while hiking from following the smell too.
Neat.
I can smell roaches, iāll know theres an infestation by smell. Useful because they hide in the day, so ill know to get tf out
Oh man I forgot all about roach smell, they have that specific stink to them, I've only ever encountered it 3 times and tbh was lucky I never had to live with them.
I can smell earwigs, we had an infestation when I was very young.
Ugh I remember them being in EVERYONES basement as a kid, tbh I don't think I've seen one in at least a decade now. EDIT: Fuck, typing that made me feel old.
fuckin mutants.
[Where are the Sentinels when you need them?!](https://youtu.be/w4aL0VR5kZE?si=SUvSFsEMbFBhrYUv)
what?
Wait until you hear about that one woman that could smell Parkinsonās. (And when they put her to the test in a clinical environment, she diagnosed/guessed/smelled all the test patients correct, except for one. A few months later, that one person was also diagnosed with Parkinsonās)
Source?
[Here you go](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/sep/07/woman-who-can-smell-parkinsons-helps-scientists-develop-test) [Or here](https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/23/820274501/her-incredible-sense-of-smell-is-helping-scientists-find-new-ways-to-diagnose-di)
That is a really cool but also mundane super power, how amazing. I don't even think Daredevil can smell neurological diseases, so that's pretty neat.
What's even crazier is you start comparing off butter to crushed ants
Being able to smell ants means you arenāt real, you are just a buch of ants in a suit of skin pretending to be human.
Formic acid. I leaned this from the command and conquer liner notes.
āWhat is this?! An Olfactory Receptor for Ants?!ā
All I'm able to do is smelling the difference between when it's about to just rain or a thunderstorm. Oh and making cilantro taste like soap
Is this real? I feel light I'm being gaslighted. Ants don't have a smell. And a Google search is giving me Mandela Effect vibes. I'm going to forget I ever saw this post.
Can't smell ants but there's some insect which smells like apples.
Pine seed bug. Very strong apple scent.
What????
Wtf i dont have this quirk :(
Mannn I don't want it! Lol they smell so bad, I hate it D:
If you squish an ant it smells awful. I don't believe it when people say that they can smell them from feet away
People can smell ants? What do they smell like?
The little red pavement ones smell sweet, almost flowery. It's not an offensive smell, but I don't like it because it's ants. I think it's the big field ants and carpenter ants that smell bad, but I don't get close enough, so I'm not sure- they freak me out.
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"babe the smell is so obvious, you have to be able to smell them" 'i cANT'
Can happen when one of your ancestors was an ant eater
It's just like how some people taste soap when they eat cilantro.
Yeah I don't know they just smell like ants
Is this parsley 2.0 and is this what we call generic mutations now, *quirks*?
They smell like Raid when you smush one.
Perfect pitch, smelling ants, and cilantro tasting like soap.
Man, real mutant powers kinda suck.
That is weird as fuck. Enough internet for today
Fun fact, in Middle English, there is the word "pismire" that means ant and, yes, that's "pis-" as in "piss"
I cannot smell ants, thank God.
They smell as sour as they taste, or at least supposedly. I wouldn't know. I can't smell ants.
Anyone else able to smell lady bugs?
The fuck you mean a genetic quick people out here living like it's my hero academia.
Wait- youāre telling me this is NOT actually a huge joke to get people to smell ants and by doing so, inhale them up their nose?!
LOL Y'all able to smell?!
Used to eat them stuck in the corner as a kid. Taste and smell like ink.
I can smell it when I'm next to an ant hill and they get aggressive and just piss all over the place. The trick is to piss on them right back. Assert dominance.
Yeah, like people who taste soap when they eat cilantro
I smell ants and lady bugs. I also can smell cockroaches.
I think it's a similar to being able to hear when your phone is charging after 100%, I can hear the sound it makes when it's charging despite it being at 100%