Anyone with plenty of time on their hands and absolutely nothing else to do could search through the Dope and discover how I feel about cilantro. The best description I’ve read was by Bobotheoptimist (and that I fully agree with him) when he said that “cilantro tastes like hate.”
I’ve made no secret of my loathing for that noxious weed. I thought everyone I work with knew how I felt.
So, what did my Secret Santa give me?
A gift card to Chipotle.
Oh, God, ick[sup]3[/sup].
Maybe my Secret Santa did know how I felt and doesn’t like me. Could be.
I gave the gift card to one of the poor Rad Tech students.
So they’ll have to try harder next time?
Seriouslt isn’t their anything in Chipolte without Cilantro, you get to choose what they put in the Buritos, so unless you are deathly alergic it should be possible to eat there.
I hate eating cilantro/coriander/soap but I’ve eaten at Chipolte. I don’t think cilantro is in their milder sauces. They have 3 or 4 types.
And they fill the wrap with so much rice I doubt you could even find any if it was there.
Oh, pshaw, like Santa trying to poison you is a big deal.
I’m allergic to nuts. My mother used to make a chocolate pie for my birthday – with almonds. Yes, my mom tried to poison me. Because, you see, I’m not really allergic; I’m just a picky eater.
She’d still be doing it, but my nephew is also allergic to nuts, so if she makes the poison pie for me, he’ll have some and get a reaction, too. Can’t have that happen.
I eat at Chipotle every chance I get. And I hate cilantro. It’s really only in the rice and the pico. if you get your burrito without rice and pick a different salsa, you should be jake.
I used to think that cilantro tasted like dirty socks. Now I love it, hell when I buy a bunch I even dry the leftovers that I won’t use so I have it on hand.
I know that all tastes are not for any given person but after discovering the culinary world I find a deep disappointment for the food aversions that most peple face. Myself, have never had this impression in the last ten years or so (I eat all and savour the unique properties) and I believe so should all.
I understand if you can’t handle it but what would latin cooking be without it?
I bet you eat alot of it and don’t notice it at all. Put into a salad with alot of your favorite dessing…do this for awhile and I bet you will eventually change your tune.
Uh oh! I feel a food fight with religious overtones coming on. I don’t think I’ve ever eaten mac and cheese in my life, including before I knew I was lactose intolerant.
Even assuming that those of us for whom the foul taste is overwhelmingly strong could “acquire” a taste for something that resembles dirty sweatsocks, cheap dish soap, and stinkbug juice…why would we want to?
I accept that there are those who like the taste of the stuff, perhaps even among those who taste the “mild” version of the flavors I find disagreeable. I make no attempt to convert the cilantro-fanciers. Why, then, do they insist on trying to convince us it’s edible? (The poisoner Rysdad accuses might have stopped short of intentional cruelty, and may merely be trying to coerce him into going along with the cilantro fad. Or maybe they’re just clueless.)
People sometimes taste the same thing differently. To me, cilantro doesn’t taste at all like any of those nasty things, it just tastes like cilantro. And it’s good.
Also, you might change your mind over time. I didn’t like almonds when I was a kid, but now I do.
You’re not the only footnote searcher, Rigamarole. Then I went :smack: and thought “cubed, he meant cubed!” Leave it to a Doper to use scientific notation in a post.
Wow, what a thoughtful Santa - you’d think someone would make at least a minor attempt at figuring out what you might like.
But next time you get a Chipotle card, send it to me… cuz I love Chipotle (and cilantro too). I don’t get people who try to convert others to their favorite tastes, though.
My standard salad includes tomatoes, but they’re not there when the little brother comes to visit, cuz he hates them. Best friend’s husband hates bananas (to the point of nausea), so no bananas are on hand when they come to visit. It’s not difficult to accommodate. Really.
I can taste a minute amount of cilantro in anything. For me, it ruins whatever it touches. I don’t even like the smell.
It’s hard to convey what cilantro tastes like to me to cilantro lovers. Put it this way…if everyone tasted it like I do, the effort the world put into eradicating smallpox would be dwarfed by the effort to obliterate cilantro.
That’s fine. Me, I don’t like dried, shredded coconut. It’s got this nasty bitter taste that destroys anything it’s in. Oddly, I’m fine with coconut milk, just not the dried stuff.
They might have already recieved that card as a present, and you’ve been regifted the restraunt of Hell. Regifted cards are the new fruit cake of the millenium.
