Very funny. Not quite what the article says, but funny. Apparently the great majority of adult Euro-Americans with an aversion are more like DeisCane, unfamiliar with fresh cilantro in childhood, they have an aversion which is quite readily overcome by beginning to eat it little by little.
But we all react as individuals. For example, thousands of pregnant young women have walked past Mr. Bartley's Gourmet Burgers in Harvard Square over the years. But that was my neighborhood when I was young and to this day I cannot walk past the place without feeling a strong physical reversion to the that first trimester feeling.
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