The 3 Oddest Food Mysteries Solved!

[@helllodarling]

Cilantro always tastes SO soapy to me! And now I know why

[@whitedragon1204]

MYTH BUSTERS DID ALL OF THIS YEARS AGO.

[@dafork2]

truth

[@TraceDominguez]

Yep, they put bananas in a thing and ran around on them. Doesn't sound like great science. They also blow stuff up, do you comment when movies blow stuff up now? Because that would get tiresome.

[@dafork2]

Trace Dominguez go be gay somewhere else

[@TraceDominguez]

I don't take people's bullshit, and thus I'm super fun at parties.

[@gamingdice9786]

i Agree with you on that i watched that episode the Japaneese guys stole their Glory and prize.

[@Grimfang999]

Cilantro? What the fuck is cilantro? *Looks it up* Coriander? AMERICANS CALL CORIANDER CILANTRO?! REALLY?

[@TurboBinch]

We also call it coriander.

[@AlexanderPavel]

Americans also call coriander coriander. In regions with higher densities of Latino people, however, people tend to call it by its Spanish name, Cilantro.

[@davidmcmillon5963]

The leaves are cilantro and the seeds are coriander in the U.S.

[@mung0dude]

I like coriander. Americans call a lot of things funny names.

[@RadiantlyYellow]

i live in the US and i call it cilantro, i dont say merry-go-round i say carousel. im cultured as fuck.

[@PaddyCollector]

Banana peel slips were the subject of so many old jokes because in the early 1900 s and late 1800 s people in big cities lime new York would just throw their trash on the sidewalk and back then the bananas they ate were not the ones we eat today (the cavandish) they were much bigger ( commonly called the big mike). These factors actually did cause a lot of people to slip on banana peels

[@fanofswitchfoot]

7th grade biology my teacher brought in cilantro. I was the only one who hated it, tasted like soap. it was a cool demo on genetics effects on taste.

[@meaganann18]

I love herbs but cannot eat anything with coriander in it. Just thought I was fussy, never knew how to describe this taste to people who were confused with why I can't stomach any food with even the tiniest bit of coriander in it!

[@AlteranTech]

I tried cilantro for the first time today. OMG, I almost vomited! it reminded me of when I was little and said a 'bad word'. I'd get that really cheap antibacterial soap shoved in my mouth. That's what it tasted like to me. That was 2 hours ago and no matter what I do, the taste still lingers.

[@Cynycal]

I love Cilantro, it is easily one of my favorite flavors and smells.

[@steffj]

i LOVE cilantro! i put it on everything. eggs, salads, soups, sandwhiches, guacamole, salsa, chicken...etc. maybe its cause im latina lol

[@Amigps01]

Thank you for verifying the fact that my bad luck defies physics. I have slipped on a banana peel, and no, it wasn't purpose.

[@Sarah_D.]

I'm a cilantro hater. Had some salsa at a Mexican restaurant once that was loaded with the stuff. I thought it tasted like soapy dish water. It was so bad, I actually thought that maybe they didn't rinse out the bowl very well before putting the salsa in it.

[@dmytroxdh8122]

I've always hated coriander (I'm British) and my parents always tell me to get over it but it gives me headaches and make me wanna puke. They always say I'm overreacting and I just don't like it

[@Storebrand_]

A chick told me "I wish I could slip on your banana" lol how rude, I was hungry, I barely started eating it and all people can think about is pranks. I walked away

[@CriticalEatsJapan]

What food science do I want to know about? Asparagus + pee = Sugar Smacks

[@ATodor22]

I've seen a guy slip on a banana peel and do a backflip...on vine.

[@ReedBetweenTheLines]

I have actually slipped, but not fallen, on a banana peel. To be fair, however, I was conducting a scientific test to see if they were as slippery as cartoons portray them to be. My conclusion was, on a flat surface, with the gooey side down, they are pretty damned slippery, but not quite so much as they are in cartoons.

[@jamesmurray4176]

I have literally slipped on a banana peel before. I parked my car in a parking lot, and I guess someone had dropped their garbage on the ground outside their car door because when I got out of my car I immediately slipped and fell on my ass. Banana peels are sooooooo slippery.

[@tomtimasotius]

Cilantro or coriender just suck, that thing ruin the taste of food

[@RagutosWorld]

Cilantro is absolutely amazing, I can't go very long without it! I like it in everything I eat.

[@yay78900]

i never thought cilantro was any more controversial than oregano, dill, parsley, basil, or catnip... leave a Ziploc bag of any in someone's luggage and watch the reactions as they go through customs

[@gilanin]

I always thought that toasts fell buttered side down because it was heavier. Like if you smother any side of paper with something, most probably when you let the paper fall, it'll fall on the smothered heavier side. Of course there are other factors but I never thought anything complicated like what Trace mentions.

[@MonikkasPursuits]

Hahaha :) Im Middle Eastern and I hate coriander :P all I taste is soap.

[@MissCrazyGeorgiaxx]

Yep I am one off those people who get weirdly passionate about how much i hate cilantro, it just shouldn't be a food ><

[@lanceverbose1763]

I've never slipped on a banana peel, but I have stepped on a rake which was hidden by tall grass. Yes, it CAN break your nose. I would also recommend avoiding peeing on an electrified fence.

[@Siberius-]

The butter toast one is old as shit.. for it to fall off a bench and land butter side up, the bench needs to be a lot higher to complete that full rotation, we don't usually have benches that highhh so they usually fall butter side down when they fall and flip down over the edge of a bench.

[@noabeazley6128]

The "wet road" photo you used was taken around the corner from where I live :D

[@AustinPinheiro_uniquetexthere]

what is silantro?

[@blabby102]

I thought that slipping on a banana peel was used in early movies as a euphemism for slipping on dog poo. They couldn't show dog poo so they used a banana peel while the audience knew that they meant it to be poop.

[@Persephales]

WHAT IS THIS BACKGROUND MUSIC!!!?!?! I MUST HAVE IT!!!!! TRACE, GIVE IT TOO MEEEEEE!!!!

[@KilalaFW]

0 g cats land on there feet and buttered toast lands on the butter side down so strapping buttered toast to a cat will cause flotation of the cat an toast because the cat will want to land on its feet but at the same time the toast will want to land on the buttered side now because the cat cant land on its feet and the buttered toast can't land on the butter it will hover off the ground

[@Uninflected_]

Have you seen the animation of this? ^^

[@urmomsahoe1]

Jon Taylor There's an animation of this? Ok your one and only life mission for you is to find....me...THAT....ANIMATION. GO

[@incorporealnuance]

My own personal experience with cilantro was when I worked in a kitchen - I'd never been around fresh leaves of it before. I must have that gene they mentioned in the video, because the smell of it made me immediately gag and feel nauseated. However, when I tasted it in the salsa they were making later, it was totally fine. In face I've eaten cilantro without realizing it, especially in Indian food, and never noticed. Maybe there are different ways it affects people?

[@firstglance]

Yes! I absolutely hate cilantro! The crap tastes just like soap even smells like it to me!

[@kylestewart1568]

Not a banana but an orange peel haha

[@Living_Life242]

Bit of a vulgar but fun movie fact; the use of the banana peel to cause people to slip when stepped on were actually a substitute for a real world equivalent at the time. You see the use of the banana peel came to theaters back in New York when everyone was getting around, not by car, but by horse drawn carridge. HORSE POO! EVERYWHERE! And people would step and slip on the equestrian faecal matter fairly regularly to unintended comedic effect (on the part of the observers at least). The budding movie industry wanted to include such material in their work but felt that some might not approve of using horse crap (or a realistic substitute) in their films so they replaced it with banana peels instead, though everyone at the time understood what it was representing.

[@ryoko65]

I think that if you strap a piece of buttered toast on to the back of a cat....(buttered side up) and then dropped the cat, the toast would cause the cat to spin endlessly in midair. lol..... kidding (and if you had a dog in the house, the dog would also spin endlessly in conflict as to whether he should get the cat or the toast.) (no animals or breakfasts were harmed in the making of this post....lol)

[@Skinnymarks]

Wait... Cilantro hate is a thing? Well I'm half persian so that explains why I don't hate it.

[@kimohearn3087]

I have the soapy gene. It's such a strange thing, if food is flavoured with cilantro, the entire dish tastes like someone has put dish soap in it.

[@Tatycharmz]

lol im also half Persian and cilantro is my bestfriend

[@kimohearn3087]

I don't hate cilantro. It isn't personal. I just can't taste its goodness. All I taste is soap.

[@ScubaShneve]

When I was a kid, I tried to make myself slip on a banana peel. I almost took a header on my grandma's cement walk. The only good outcome was to gain knowledge that I could make ppl slip on a banana peel.

[@HaganeRyuplus5]

I have actually slipped on a banana peel. I hit the ground at a rate that was greater than the force of gravity; this I kid you not!

[@mhs2007]

That's interesting because my dad always told me that he didn't like it and that it tasted like soap. I thought he was exaggerating because I like it, and it tastes fine to me. He was right it did taste like soap to himsl.

[@FPrimusUnicron]

well, not only banaba peel but some other fruit skins are a risk, here we have many fruit trees and from time to time the streets get covered with smashed fruits and its pretty much dangerous; and i dont hate cilantro

[@cocoberrie72]

So, a bobcat walks into a bar...

[@mizuniki66631]

Thank you Trace! now I know why I hate the smell off fresh Cilantro...makes me want to vomit

[@TraceDominguez]

You're welcome!

[@jh3xgaming]

Bougth "PARSLEY" on a local grocery store and cooked it together with my favorite Chicken Pasta and then BOOM! It taste like crushed bugs 😑 What's annoying is the store put it in a same basket without tags/markings on it. Parsley and Cilantro looks the same

[@marymountain4162]

Really? I was walking down Paris, and I slipped on a banana peal. It gave me a pretty good bruise.

[@medorath8533]

you can't have a salad without cilantro

[@TheRealSpiderMew]

Don't want your toast to land butter side down, well just don't drop your toast! duh!

[@MarkArandjus]

This cilantro finding is a good example of how we know evolution is real. If people have always been the same, we would all have the same reaction to it.

[@BillyJoe1305]

I believe a man in a rat costume a weird scientist and his older mother taught me that thing about toast, on the television.

[@arespinoza85]

In Mexico cilantro is used on a lot of things. Iv also seen it used a lot here in Canada. I love it.

[@sydthegoat88]

the butterside lands down because the average height of a bench is a bit over a metre and the toast only has a chance to do half a revolution, goddammit research these important facts...

[@BrandonAngelDragon]

I wonder if Durian is like Cilantro. Some people like the smell some people hate the smell. Or maybe its an acquired thing and you just get used to it by being exposed when you're still young.

[@dacasman]

Ive actually always though cilantro tasted like soap and everybody thought I was crazy :o This is amazing information

[@muhammadisme24]

Im middle eastern and I hate Cilantro it tastes like chemicals

[@TheBlindDyslexic]

Never saw anyone, nor a coyote slip on a banana peel, Just don't care for saltra because I had to peel the stuff at one of the restaurants I use to work for..

[@kken8766]

Dear Trace, Can you make a video explaining why we have 4 seasons? i've heard it is about the angle that the earth is tilted and not because of the distance from the sun, which blows my mind and makes me confuse...

[@DonTalissia]

I hated it with a passion as a kid but now I totally love it

[@UberOriginal]

I hate cilantro & I'm from east Asia. My family doesn't like it either.

[@CatboyChemicalSociety]

why do most people hate durian! it smells like shit and tastes like shit but only on the first mouthfull 2nd mouthfull and onwards suddenly it tastes like bavarian from inside donuts with cherries mixed in its so strange then if you stop eating it for awhile maybe 10 mins it goes back to tasting like shit on the next bite

[@808foodlover]

Cilantro... HATE IT!!!

[@darsangovind1833]

ok, since you insist-Science world, I m brimming with gratitude for finding out why I fall on my butt slipping on a banana peel & why the buttered side of my bread cant fight gravity & how my race determines whether or not I like cilantro. Absolutely absolutely Nobel prize deserving discoveries. There- now I can sleep in peace - : )

[@JCReiki]

Cilantro is definitely soapy to me. I like it in salsa, but that's about it, lol.

[@cheekybastard135]

I was told I was to go enjoying ultra-hot food was a genetic one not just in the fact of taste but the fact that you have to have the taste receptors genetically to enjoy it. I have always believed his because when I try really hot chilies I can't taste anything at all. Is that true?

[@movesguy]

Cilantro is my favorite herb. I use it on pizza at Pieology and for my breakfast sub at Subway sandwiches. I combine it with red onion, tomato, and if available- chipotle sauce.

[@EnlightenedWhispers]

I have actually slipped on a banana peel. I was walking down the hall in high school and someone threw it on the floor for me to slip and slide and flail around. Everyone laughed of course, but I twisted my ankle and no one offered to help. Good times. :(

[@timjf123]

So true I despise Cilantro!!

[@stiimuli]

2 of these 3 were tested years ago by Mythbusters. Granted, that's not legitimate scientific research but their methods are often science-ish. =P

[@jguyfletch2187]

I disagree with the toast findings. I learned that sectional density plays the greatest role in determining which area of a falling object will face downward. Thus , it would matter how much topping is on the toast and the distance of the free fall !

[@sothca4s4]

I despise cilantro with a passion D:

[@Ygmsp]

Cilantro on tacos? Hell yea. Cilantro on any other food? Hell no.

[@S4Y24]

Can't have pico de gallo without cilantro

[@Ygmsp]

sarang4ya very true, except the way my fam. Makes pico de gallo isn't with cilantro cx. We call it chimol haha

[@S4Y24]

My guess is you are Honduran?

[@Ygmsp]

sarang4ya Close, Salvadoran :)

[@S4Y24]

Cool. ^_^

[@HideSeekTig]

My mother is southeast Asian and my father is UK and I LOVE Coriander!(Cilantro)

[@HunniRoze]

I'm middle eastern :D (Iraqi) and we eat a lot of cilantro. Cook it in food, eat it raw and so on. Doesn't smell anything soapy to me. It has a nice fragrance like vegetables normally do.

[@lolTungsten]

Several years back my sister and I tried to slip on banana peels to see if it really works... it did...

[@MegaDgreen123]

As normal toast falls butter side down most of the time, you don't want to clean up that mess. Check out Marzcorp's unflippable toast. They solved the mystery too!

[@SeijuroRen]

I've slipped on a banana. I didn't fall, but I did slide for a bit.

[@DD1nfamous]

I love cilantro when I make Spanish or Latin dishes with my girlfriend. As for the banana peel, my friend slipped right into a recycling can, and it was pretty funny

[@jackieboarder7]

I seriously hate cilantro !!

[@ThirstiCactus]

when my siblings and i were younger, we all put on bike helmets and purposly slipped on bananas in our kitchen. we were ages 2, 4, and 6. i was 4. it was fun. but i bruised my eblows.

[@Ryzawa]

Behold the science of TOAST!

[@thefirespectrum]

I remember seeing somewhere that the species of banana popular at the time of early film, when the slipping on a banana peel gag started, was a sweeter, mushier species than the bananas we have today. Did the researchers use different kinds of bananas?

[@TraceDominguez]

Bananas have a cool history, check out our video on bananas going extinct! Why Are Bananas Going Extinct?

[@JishnuChowdhury]

Eating a banana and watching this lol

[@starwarskid93]

I would like DNews to further investigate this new phenomenon called the Kura Diamond at Burger King.

[@adriancherry4794]

cilantro is nasty haha

[@78piratesrule]

I LOVE cilantro. I use it whenever I can, and there is no such thing as too much cilantro.

[@PockASqueeno]

I can't focus on anything but that skull sitting on the shelf in the back...

[@dylanmcquiston3645]

Cilantro tastes and smells like stink bugs.

[@rubysumner7819]

I slipped on a banana skin in a car park

[@Smurfman256]

My god. Everyone thought that I was crazy when I said that Cilantro tasted like soap. I'M NOT FUCKING CRAZY!

[@SweetNessTM]

I have no idea what cilantro is...

[@dmytroxdh8122]

Coriander

[@gamingdice9786]

For me i Eat almost all of the soups that i like to eat with cilantro cause it kinda gives it a unique taste to each soupe or at least that is what i Tast so it is not that i love it but i dont mind it in my Food ( i am from Algeria wich is in Africa if you anyone doesnt know so the study is correct on that side and btw in here Cilantro is called Madouness معدونس ) Just as a refrence .

[@katieking-steele3820]

cilantro is sooooo effing nasty

[@VieuxBat]

I love cilantro since I had my first real mexican salsa (I am french, we don't have mexican food in France), but before I had it I hated this soapy taste (like rosemary too).

[@dizzyaquarius1657]

I am of European decent, and I love cilantro. the smell of it entices me, and it adds flavor to the salsa that I was missing.

[@Srinjoymusiclover]

I once slipped with my bike on a Tomato .... they are dangerous too

[@noelsoong777]

I am Chinese and coriander is one of the main herbs used.

[@danielotis1885]

I hated cilantro until I turned 30.now I love it!

[@ellocomuybravo]

does gulping down a can of spinach really make you strong?

[@SuperSimplekitchen]

Very interesting on the cilantro...

[@sherthom5672]

Love cilantro, especially in salsa.

[@evilhojo]

Bananas are insane they try to kill me and my Co workers at least 2 to 3 times a day.... Now I work at Dq (work is work) and we make about 80 to 100 banana splits a day.. Now their is a lot of peels that that miss the trash can and become death peels that cause alot of slips and near misses everyday .. Reminds me of a bad cartoon everyday lol..

[@PitsTasteGood]

I can tolerate/appreciate cilantro now... but i am still repulsed by parsley.