Anyone else in the "cilantro tastes like soap" club?

[bicentennial_baby]

I am...I'm hearing that it's quite common...I can't go near it, eat it, smell it... :puke:

Anyone? :)

[In_The_Wind]

1. Me! I can't stand the stuff!

:hi:

[bicentennial_baby]

7. i'm glad i'm not alone...

:pals:

[In_The_Wind]

23. Sweetie ~ you'll never be alone.

:loveya:

[reyd reid reed]

2. I can live without it.

I don't know that it tastes like soap, exactly...but it's not my favorite thing in the world.

[idgiehkt]

3. not me

I love it. It looks like little hands. But I understand... :hi:

[Broken_Hero]

4. I love cilantro...

never heard of this soap rumor before...how odd.

[Ediacara]

13. Aparently, it's genetic

or so I've heard. Some people have a very strong aversion to cilantro, many of them describe it as soapy, and about 75% of people think the cilantro-haters are crazy. It's not because we're crazy, we genuinely are tasting something you aren't (and we wish we weren't tasting it).

[Shakespeare]

18. That is correct.

The Washington Post ran a couple of stories about the studies on it, oh, maybe 7-8 years ago.

I wish I liked it--I really do. But it's an immediate, visceral reaction--the smell even makes me want to run from the room.

[Ravenseye]

36. I'd never heard that before

That sucks. cilantro is aweseome as long as it doesn't taste like soap to you.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

14. I've heard a lot of people say that.

At the health food store, a couple of my coworkers wouldn't even go into the stockroom, if we got a case of cilantro in with the produce delivery or were picking out the bad bunches from our stock.

Personally, I'm fine with cilantro.

[mad-mommy]

5. it's soooo good in salsa....

but that's about it. Maybe the hot peppers overpower the soapy taste?

[Suich]

6. I thought I was the only one!!!

I hate the stuff...it's always tasted like soap to me!

:hi:

[bicentennial_baby]

8. nope, it's not just you...

:pals:

[DavidDvorkin]

9. Me!

And my son, too.

It's genetic, apparently.

Which is to say, some of us have a good-taste gene in this regard.

[Ediacara]

10. Yes, kind of

Not exactly like soap, but pretty much horrifying. It tastes like rotten, salted, celery that's been burnt in the oven with melted plastic, and then reconstituted, and then covered in soap.

[bicentennial_baby]

12. Yeah, I hear that the distaste can differ...

For some, soap, for others, plastic, rotting corpse, etc... All bad though x(

:pals:

[Ediacara]

28. yep

I find it tolerable in salse, but nothing else. Especially now that it's become to herb de jour to the hipster foodies.... My boyfriend is quite severely allergic, so we don't cook with it and I don't miss it.

[PassingFair]

11. Cilantro is a pollutant.

:puke:

[XemaSab]

15. Dude, I thought you were cool...

:eyes:

[MiniMandaRuth]

16. I read that as 'Clinton tastes like soap'!

Woops.

[bicentennial_baby]

17. Blame the Clenis!

:rofl:

[MiniMandaRuth]

21. I really dig tomato soup with lots of herbs in it.

Yummm.... all creamy with cilantro. Now THAT is what angels taste like.

[RevolutionaryActs]

19. I only like it when it's in salsa.

:shrug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

20. My dear bi_baby!

It doesn't taste exactly like soap to me......

But it sure as heck tastes awful!

I can normally detect even very small amounts.........:puke:

[In_The_Wind]

22. AirmansMom said: "Me too"!

She isn't answering for herself because we just finished off a second bottle of Beringer White Merlot 2004. I guess I'm corrupting her!

[AirmensMom]

25. OK, Miss Joani, it's like this ...

I'm AirMENsMom. I got two of 'em, dontcha know? x( AirMENs ... MEN ... MEN ... MEN. Got it? (:rofl: You know I love you, right? :loveya:)

And second, (while I'm at it), I have to agree with you 100% on the cilantro stuff. Who in the world decided that was edible and should be put in every single fucking food? I know people who eat it by the bushel! :puke: Jeez! Go buy a bar of soap!

[In_The_Wind]

30. oopsie ~ fine

[AussieDave]

24. Cilantro, to me, tastes like stink-beetles - it is the Devil's Weed

and should be eradicated as a pest.

Truly Awful Stuff.

No redeeming features whatsoever.

[astral]

26. Well, I didn't understand anything good about it when I first tasted it. .

but someone made some home made salsa, the kind you chop up with a sharp knife, with fresh hot peppers, and tons of cilantro in it, and it was the first time I'd tasted fresh made salsa with cilantro in it, so I thought it was pretty great.

But I do love it now, but it's kinda pointless unless it's mixed with the right stuff --- tomatoes, or hummus pita sandwiches. I try to eat alot of it because it is supposed to be -- The Greatest Thing -- for detoxifying your body of heavy metals, such as, mercury fillings til you can afford to get the darned things taken out!!! And afterwards, too.

But soap? Nope! :)

I feel that way about fennel or licorice or anise --- grody stuff! You cilantro haters are probably those strange genetic mis-fits who love to chew on rubbery black licorice sticks!~

[Ediacara]

27. Not me

Fennel, licorice, and taragon are also pretty horrible IMHO.

[leftofthedial]

29. I used to love it

about a year ago, I developed a horrific sensitivity to it (and to mint, tarragon and other related herbs). It has varying degrees of effect, but at its worst, it makes me so sick I think I'm gonna die. I can't breathe or keep anything down . . . awful.

soap? yeah, a little. Especially when it comes back up.

[Frank Cannon]

31. I cannot stand it in the least

It tastes like the smell of toilet bowl cleaner, only concentrated.

[xchrom]

32. ok -- now this is weird -- but i think it was

on the food channel -- but i had heard that for people who don't like cilantro it's genetic.

something abour chemical make-up makes it so you don't like it.

so cilantro divides us up -- people who like cilantro and people who don't.

i don't know if it's really true or not -- just thought it was interesting.

[Cannikin]

33. yes, it taste like soap.

I cant stand it unless its ground in small amounts in home made salsa

[Richardo]

34. Not a fan.

A little goes a looooooooooooooooooooooooong way for me. Like homeopathic amounts.

[ScreamingMeemie]

35. I am in the "replace cilantro with taragon whenenver it comes up in a

recipe club" aka cilantro tastes like soap club. :hi:

[tjwmason]

37. It is grotesque.

There are very few things that I can genuine barely force down my throat if needed (such as being served by an unsuspecting host), but corriander (as we call it) is definitely one of those things.

Sometimes it works when cooked - for example carrot and corriander soup is lovely :9 but by itself it's as much a toxin as arsenic to my mind.

[Rhiannon12866]

38. Yes!!! I absolutely agree!

I do not understand the huge fan club for cilantro. I don't like it, either. When I have to make anything calling for cilantro, I substitute flat leaf parsley. I also don't understand the popular food obsession with making everything as "hot" as possible. Whenever I hear somebody on The Food Network saying that they want to turn up the heat on something, I figure that this means it would be too hot for me...x(

[kwassa]

39. Fresh cilantro is wonderful in many different dishes.

I use it in salads. Mexican dishes, of course. Seafood dishes, etc.

[cwydro]

40. ugghh

hate the stuff

[Sugar Smack]

41. YES! Girl after my own heart-

HATE cilantro! HATE it!

[bicentennial_baby]

43. yet another reason why

i love you so!! :loveya:

should we call you this evening, or tommorrow? :)

:loveya:

[Sugar Smack]

45. YES, tomorrow!

Yes!! :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[bicentennial_baby]

46. Sounds good!

We'll be calling you, most def :D

I can't wait to hear your sweet voice...Will you sing to me again? :rofl:

:loveya:

[Sugar Smack]

47. O, shit!

Of course I will! BWAAAAH! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :loveya: :rofl: :rofl:

[Squeech]

42. Just the opposite

I love cilantro in all its forms (coriander is the dried seed of the same plant, very useful in curries and middle eastern dishes).

But tarragon affects me the same way cilantro does you, and I think it does taste exactly like soap. Moreover, it tastes like soap dissolved in cheap white wine. My unfavorite flavor in the whole world.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

44. Fascinating!

I had no idea there was a genetic thing that made it taste like soap to some people. I really like it; it doesn't taste like soap at all, to me.

[jakefrep]

48. Not me personally....

...but I think the "Galloping Gourmet" guy does. He mentioned something about it yesterday on his show - if you use too much cilantro, it tastes like soap.

[azmouse]

49. I love cilantro so much I make a pesto with it!

Yummmmm :)

[philosophie_en_rose]

50. It's so terrible! It ruins salsa.

I hate cilantro. It does taste like soap.

[Love Bug]

51. Yuk! I object to the overuse of it in everything nowadays

10 years ago you didn't find nearly as much cilantro as you do now in tex-mex food. Cilantro is the new "trendy" herb used in every goddam thing.

[jpgray]

52. I like it lots

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

53. Right here.

That stuff disgusts me. Ginger, too.

[Idylle Moon Dancer]

54. hm, interesting

yes, I think it tastes like soap,
but unlike other soap-tasters in this thread, I like it.

I don't eat soap, btw, but I have been known to taste a
bar of soap that looks particularly interesting.