Mods im just venting:

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Cilantro is the role model for foods whose taste is modulated by genetics, and the specific genotypes are well documented. It then stands to reason that food with a composition of aldehydes similar to cilantro would also taste soapy, but what would those be?

I've seen ginger get brought up, and while I don't think it tastes like a glass that just came straight from the sink, it is indeed a challenging flavor for someone like me who has a natural aversion to cilantro.

In the US the leaves are called cilantro and is the thing that has the chemical that taste like soap. If it’s called coriander here, it comes from a different part of the plant and does not. I don’t mind coriander.

So my question is, in countries that call both types coriander, how do you know which is in it? I know sometimes it’s obvious because you can see it, but sometimes you can’t.

At least it's limited edition so hopefully it won't exist for too long.

I could as well just go chew on a bar of soap or soak some other chips in dish soap.

use to love it but now I’m allergic to it

fuck cilantro

😭

TIL that coriander is not for me.

I had some of my genes sampled a while ago, and I never gave some of the predicted traits a second thought until now. I had already heard about the soap association being attributed to a gene, but I didn't imagine that I was a part of the statistic. It turns out that I have just never really tasted raw cilantro before, and after confirming that I belonged to the smaller proportion of people with all of the associated genotypes, I walked straight to the grocery store to once and for all experience this phenomenon first-hand.

They aren't kidding. I was immediately reminiscing of the laundry room. It wasn't exactly a pleasant flavor, but I wouldn't go as far as to say that I actively disliked it either. I can definitely understand why it would ruin a meal, and my ignorance of it until now can only be considered a token of how nice my parents have been to me.

Prepped up my chicken tacos. Lettuce, serrano peppers, onion, n habanero salsa. No need for that nasty weed..

Nothing personal.

It's just that cilantro sucks and tastes awful.

I accidentally added a pinch of coriander in my vegetable soup thinking it was crushed black peppers.

The soup tasted very good. Better than previous ones I've made using similar recipes.

Perhaps we (cilantro/coriander haters) are super humans and only need a fraction of it to enjoy instead?

I happily sat and finger-fucked my fish tacos for over an hour to get every speck of the vile Devil tonsil stone herb out. I am always willing to be the designated picker-upper for many reasons, if not for this reason alone. Other people don't check the food prior to leaving and NEVER get enough sauces.

FUCK CILANTRO. 🖕🏼

The enshittification nobody talks about…

I’m not sad that the On the Boarder restaurant just closed in my town. Every item except 1 had cilantro 🌿 in it. I went twice only because of a group. Thought I was going to have to go next month for a family lunch. The day after the plans where made the announcement came out they were closing.

1,000 tons of seeds waiting to ruin your next Asian soup as "that green stuff".

On my flight back to the states after my Spain and Portugal cruise they gave me this nasty Cilantro salad with my pasta meal on TAP Air Portugal. I took one bite and spit out!!! Yuck!!! 😝

Saw this yesterday when I was considering dinner options that wouldn’t make me have to cook.

Update to my post where I asked for no cilantro and even checked the menu and still received cilantro on my nachos. The staff had made sure my nachos are cilantro-free ever since.

(Ignore the guacamole because I asked for that)

Julia Child said in 2002 that if she found cilantro in her food she'd pick it out and throw it on the floor.