I've given up on cilantro

Yes, we have the ability to taste at least one more of the compounds in the cilantro. You’re missing the ability to taste it. And it’s nasty.

Yeah, whatever it is that we’re tasting must break down in heat. The more cooked celery is, the more I can tolerate it. When it’s completely mushy, it has no flavor at all- but raw is evil incarnate.

It’s rather clearly a “disability” rather than an “ability.” What do you get in exchange for not being able to enjoy one of the more pleasurable edible substances?

Mr. Neville can detect celery at a parts-per-trillion level in any dish. I can’t taste much of anything from celery. Since I don’t love it- I just think it’s OK- we leave it out of anything we cook.

I believe there’s some (gene, recepter, whatever) that you either have or don’t have that makes cilantro taste like soapy nastiness. My brother and mom have it, sadly.

I can understand that cilantro tastes like soap to them, but to me, it’s just FRESH MOUTAIN SPRINGTIME SUNSHINEY GREEN AWESOMENESS in lovely herb form.

I must be the only person on the planet who can both taste the soapiness of cilantro and not completely hate it. In fact, I would completely love it had someone not pointed out its soapiness to me :mad:…but I still don’t mind it.

I love cilantro. The local grocery stores carry tons of the stuff, and it sells. Thank goodness the anti-cilantro conservative right won’t be passing a Prop 8 against cilantro any time soon.

Of course, once they do, I can always grow my own. I keep seeds for that eventuality. I hate it when I suddenly find myself a criminal in my own country, though.

As some friends of mine found out, that stuff grows like a weed. It took over their entire back yard.

Welcome to the club, cowgirl. Surprised you stuck with it for so long. It capital-R Ruins everything it touches.

In my house I call it soaplantro. My wife has learned to accept my disability. I should be able to park in the handicap parking at Mexican restaurants.

I often describe myself as a goat when people ask me if I’ll eat food xyz. I’m open to anything; I like most foods and will tolerate with a smile the few that I don’t like. The only two things I will not eat are anything with artificial sweetener in it and cilantro. They are not food as far as I’m concerned.

It’s too bad that all the restaurants here cover EVERYTHING with it. Even the fast food joints are doing it now.

I like the stuff, but then I can’t taste any soap flavour. Cilantro/coriander is only marginally more flavoursome than, say, lettuce. It’s gotta be a genetic thing, because I’m sure I’d hate it too if it tasted like soap. But to me, it just doesn’t.

Either that, or all you cilantro haters are just weird, evil, and defective. :smiley:

I am a picky eater, and I love cilantro. Loved it the first time I had it, at a Thai place–or maybe that was just the first place I noticed it, since to me, in Mexican foods it doesn’t stand out. I eat lots of Mexican and I must’ve had it. Maybe I should say I loved it the first time its special flavor was brought out by the rest of the dish, which was Beef Salad Hot!.

Celery tastes like crunch. On a hot day it can be kind of thirst-quenching. It is a fine vehicle for delivery artichoke dip to the mouth.

Well, I am weird, evil and defective, but that has nothing to do with cilantro.

My favorite quote from the Dope? “Cilantro tastes like hate.”

I read that from someone on here years ago and ever since, I say everything I don’t like tastes like hate. Everyone always looks at me funny when I say that, but I’m not sure why. . .

I like cilantro. It doesn’t taste like soap to me. However, I keep hearing that it tastes like soap to a lot of folks. I’m afraid that someday I’ll have something with cilantro in it, and a light bulb will go off, and suddenly, I’ll go “ewwww, soap!”, and that’ll be the end of my cilantro-eating days. Somebody please tell me that won’t happen!

No, officer, it’s pot, I swear!

Haven’t I already posted this in some other cilantro thread?

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Cilantro tastes like rotted mint- and I don’t like fresh mint either.

Don’t you hate it when you forget to tell them no cilantro in the pho- the broth is so hot that its too late once the leaves touch the water- that taste is there to stay…

I definitely taste soapiness in cilantro, but perhaps not as strongly as others, because I love the stuff. The first time I had cilantro in a salsa, I actually thought the serving dish wasn’t rinsed off properly. However, I grew to love and crave the “soapy” quality of the herb.

Actually that sounded really familiar so I did a search . . . you will find the results amusing. Look at posts 18 and 19.

And, FWIW, Red Bull tastes like liquid Flintstones Vitamins. I’m pretty sure it’s either Dino or Barney. And it’s piss yellow, not even red.

But it’s so good.