Cilantro and/or Coriander - Soap-Tasting Herbs

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Who here hates Cilantro/Coriander?

Some people taste the herb as a soapy overwhelming taste or "crushed bugs".

Tell me about how many pho meals, curries and etc. have been ruined by this "herb"
 
I hate cilantro/coriander but I still eat pho and curry in spite of it's horrible taste. The reason why it tastes like soap to me is that I inherited the homozygous recessive genotype for taste buds perceiving coriander flavor as vomit-inducingly bitter. My grandfather also has the recessive genotype, but everyone else in my family either doesn't have the gene or is simply a non-expressing carrier for it, so they don't mind the taste at all. When I was younger, I would literally vomit at the faintest taste of coriander, but I've learned to suppress the gag reflex over the years to the point that I can stomach the taste although it still makes me very queasy and ruins whatever food I am eating.

It's just a bad luck of the genetic lottery if coriander tastes like soap to you. Everyone else thinks you're just a picky eater, which is bullshit, because it's literally one gene that controls whether your taste buds perceiver coriander flavor as a normal herb or like soap. You can even trace the recessive gene's expression through your family tree to find out exactly which ancestor to blame for your inability to enjoy coriander, it's not one of those polygenic multi-allele clusterfucks.
 
I think the first time I ever had it was when a half-Mexican friend of my mother's cooked some food that had cilantro in it. I could taste the soapy taste. I must've developed a tolerance for it, because it no longer has the soap taste to me.

And I'm glad I did, because I fucking LOVE Mexican food of any kind.
 
I never had pho outside of some instant noodles (which tasted much better than ramen thanks to the fact it came with sriracha). Still, I pretty much had cilantro in some carne asada burritos. At first I didn't like the taste but I got use to it to the point that I don't mind eating it in a burrito.
 
I hate cilantro. Smells great but tastes like soap. I can tolerate it in dishes when very little is used and there are stronger flavors to help mask it, but otherwise keep that shit off my plate.
 
Valiant said:
Who here hates Cilantro/Coriander?

Some people taste the herb as a soapy overwhelming taste or "crushed bugs".

Tell me about how many pho meals, curries and etc. have been ruined by this "herb"
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I used to hate cilantro when I was 12 or so. Since I grew up, though, it's wonderful.

This is a really blatant example of something changing its taste, though, because when I was a kid, I hated it specifically because it tasted like soap. It just doesn't taste like soap to me any more, though.

I don't blame people for hating it, because if it still tasted like it did to me when I was a kid, I would never eat anything containing it.

If you never had it, though, since you were a kid, and you're 30 or something, give it another shot. It really does taste different.

Bitch I Might Be said:
I love cilantro. It tastes like citrus to me. I could actually eat it in place of lettuce on certain things. I honestly feel very bad for people who don't enjoy its taste :c
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I definitely have the so-called gene for tasting it as soap, because I used to, and long before I even knew of the gene, the first thing I said when tasting something that had a lot of cilantro on it was to freak out and say that it tasted like soap.

Comparing my sensations of it now, though, to my memories, it still tastes the same, but for some reason, I now like the taste.
 
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AnOminous said:
I used to hate cilantro when I was 12 or so. Since I grew up, though, it's wonderful.

This is a really blatant example of something changing its taste, though, because when I was a kid, I hated it specifically because it tasted like soap. It just doesn't taste like soap to me any more, though.

I don't blame people for hating it, because if it still tasted like it did to me when I was a kid, I would never eat anything containing it.

If you never had it, though, since you were a kid, and you're 30 or something, give it another shot. It really does taste different.
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It was the reverse for me, I loved it as a kid and then one day I was at a friends house and went "this taste like soap" and they were like wtf man. Haha it wasn't years until I realised it was the Coriander after I found a fresh sprig of it and ate it.
 
I don't think it tastes like soap, it just tastes like they use way too goddamn much. Because seriously guys dial it back about fifty because I wanted salsa not cilantro guest-starring tomatoes.
 
I like cilantro. One of my favorite smoothies contains pineapple, apple, a generous amount of cilantro, and some other stuff I forget (something creamy, frozen bananas maybe)
I think @AnOminous is onto something, my boyfriend used to hate cilantro (his father still loathes it) but after introducing him to cilantro smoothies and other dishes he actually loves it now. Strange.
 
This is a super necro, but I've asked a bunch of people who liked and disliked cilantro. I despise it. It both tastes and smells like male cat spray / piss. Disgusting. I don't know how people eat it. I've been told dried Cilantro doesn't seem to trigger people sensitive to it, but I think I'm the only person who think it smells 100% like male, unfixed cat spray and or piss (whatever you want to call it.)
 
I don't even taste soap in cilantro; I taste the odor of stink bugs. Disgusting.
 
Cilantro is absolutely awful, but I wouldn't say I think it tastes like soap or "bugs" at all. I've never been able place the flavour I just know it ruins every single piece food it's used in.

I was always lead to believe a lot of us find it disgusting, but most people most like it given how commonly it's used.
 
I don't feel it's awful but it's def a "oh. cilantro." sort of thing when I notice it
 
i can kinda taste the soap thing so i get what people mean, but ive had cilantro for long enough that it never bothered me when having it
 
I've never had a problem with cilantro/coriander. The seeds or the leaves. I don't buy it or use it often but I don't mind it. I did used to buy the seeds when I made curry. I'd toast up some whole cumin and coriander seeds and grind them up with a mortar and pestle to use as a base. My wife doesn't mind it like that and she doesn't mind the leaves cooked into food but she doesn't like them raw.

My dad will eat the seeds but he doesn't like the leaves he says they take his breath away. My sister can't stand it. She says it tastes like soap. She doesn't like ginger either for the same reason.
 
I really liked it once I was an adult outside the armed forces. I dunno why I hated it so much as a kid.
 
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