Well…?
[spoiler]Cilantro will taste good to some and horrible to others due to genetics. Either you have the gene to have it taste great (or taste like anything at all in some cases) or you don’t.*
*or you do and just plain don’t like it anyway.[/spoiler]
Madame Pepperwinkle uses cilantro and many other herbs and spices to great effect. Love it!
I chose the last option.
To me it tastes the way your mouth tastes after you throw up.
I love cilantro! El Torito makes a Cilantro Caesar salad dressing that is wonderful on a summer salad.
I can taste the dishwashing soap in quantity, but if its light, it isn’t a bad soap taste.
My husband just tastes SOAP! so we don’t have it much.
It tastes bitter to me and people use waaaaay too much. I avoid it.
I’m very careful using it. I’m not growing it in my garden. The taste is so so witth me.
I usually can’t taste cilantro at all - unless it’s used in obscene amounts.
Soapy as hell, but I’ve grown to almost like it.
When I first moved to Arizona many years ago from NC, I was eating a lot of chips and salsa. I thought, “why does all the salsa taste like soap? Is there some kind of cultural thing where these people don’t rinse out their salsa bowls after washing them? WTF?” Then I learned about the gene. By now, though, I have eaten so much cilantro that it doesn’t taste like soap anymore, really… I’ve learned to enjoy it. Maybe not in quantity, but a little is good. And it’s become so ubiquitous, that it’s all over the place here in NC now, where I’ve moved back to.
I love pico de gallo. I’ve never understood how cilantro can taste like soap to some people. Their salsa must suck 
I accidentally bought it for my guinea pig once instead of parsley though and he thought it was parsley too, started digging in and then just jumped back in shock like it had attacked him. He did eventually calm down and eat it, but begrudgingly.
I voted that I love it, but really I just like it. It used to taste like soap to me, but it no longer does.
There’s a bit more to it than just a genetic component. For example, here is a NYTimes story that goes into the great cilantro divide. Even the research that came out late last year says genetics are only a small part of the story, and that " ‘[the gene] didn’t make a huge a difference in cilantro preference from person to person,’ Nicholas Eriksson, the lead author on the study, tells The Salt. In fact, their results suggest that a hatred for cilantro has only a small underlying genetic component." So take that as you will.
Personally, I taste the soapiness and the first few times I had it, I thought the bowls used for the salsa weren’t properly rinsed. It tasted really odd and weird to me. But after being exposed to it a few more times, I got used to the taste and now I love it. I still taste what people describe as “soapy,” but there’s more to it so I can distinguish actual soap from cilantro, and I love the fresh, green taste of cilantro.
ETA: I voted the last option, because I still taste what can be described as “soapiness.” I would say that most my friends and family, all of whom currently like cilantro, found it weird and soapy at first.
I have similar a cilantro story to pulykamell. It tasted soapy at first and now it does not.
What Blackberry said, I want Pico de Gallo as soup, and trust me, gazpacho needs cilantro .
I Love cilantro!!!
I like it as a salad with baby spinach leaves added…
I do hate blue cheese, lindbergers… and mushrooms sometimes…those smell and taste most foul to me:(
I also taste the soapy flavor, but it’s only a problem for me in excessive quantities. I started off by thinking “Hm, that burrito place I like uses cilantro; maybe that’s what makes them so tasty. I should try growing some of my own cilantro.”. Then, when it came up in my garden, I tried a few leaves by themselves, and almost gagged on them. So clearly, the flavor that I liked so much in the burritos wasn’t cilantro, but the cilantro also wasn’t enough to ruin them.
This reminds me of the story about finding that “super tasters” exist.
Eh.
It tastes soapy to me. If there’s not too much in something, and I don’t bite down on a leaf, I’m Ok with it in food. But there are some places that smother their food in cilantro. Bleah!