Interesting. I have the genetic marker that is noted by the issue that I taste walnuts as bitter and somewhat fuzzy.
I cannot eat them, I am not allergic to them, they just taste bad.
I can eat and enjoy all other tree and ground nuts.
My grandfather was a tenant farmer, and Road laborer, and worked many other hard jobs such as logging, ditch digging etc... Lived in northern Michigan raised 13 children and was probably one of the strongest man I’ve ever known. He stood 5 foot 5.
I don’t remember much of him because I was very young (and he spoke Czech) but I do remember (and my uncles reminded me several times) that he would take a walnut in his hand and with his thumb and his curled index finger - crack that Walnut to open it. The man was just plain hard as nails.
Yes, very bitter. Hard to eat even when so directed!
Are we related? Similar ethnicity? Levantian?
I’ve looked into that genetic testing hoping for at least a few whys about some problems I was born with.
The big reason is what if/when genetic screening becomes a way to discriminate in hiring.
Coffee and alcoholic drinks are bitter to me. Some of my relatives despise celery according to them celery tastes terrible. To me, celery has virtually none.
Is that the same genetic marker that makes cilantro taste bad?