cilanto 🌿

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• Addv4@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Those poor, poor people.

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  • otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I am one of those people. An entire burrito can be ruined for me with just a few pieces throughout. I always feel so bad when someone gives me food with cilantro.

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    • Addv4@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That sucks. I just made some enchiladas with diced cilantro stem last night (more flavor in the stem). Don’t feel bad, I’m sure they don’t mind when they realise it tastes bad to you. Now I’m just sad you don’t get to enjoy the true taste of cilantro.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Must suck to be a such freak of nature that even God turns his head from them.

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  • ladicius@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have a mild variant of this. It’s funny when it hits you in completely unsuspicious food.

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    • Addv4@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, it’s used in a lot of different cultures’ foods. Like it you eat Indian or Vietnamese food, theres a decent chance it could be there, not just Mexican, which is what I think a lot of people think of when cilantro is used in cooking.

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• HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pic looks like AI BS

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s the joke haha.

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• Skanky@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, I’m one of those people. AMA?

  It’s weird - sometimes I can kinda understand why people love cilantro so much… It’s like, I can kinda pick out the “good” flavors in it even though the overwhelming flavor that registers with me is soap. It’s a real bummer, because I love food and feel like I’m missing it on some really unique flavor profiles.

  It’s always awkward having to ask for “no cilantro” in restaurants, and then explaining that it’s not an allergy. It just doesn’t taste good to me.

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  • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Weirdly, I’m similar from the opposite side. I can see how it tastes soapy to people, I kinda detect the soapyness too. But it doesn’t ruin it for me, I like cilantro.

    Candied ginger tastes like soap to me though. Fresh or powdered ginger doesn’t.

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    • Skanky@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Huh. I have me problem with candied ginger (or fresh) at all. I’m not crazy about it, but it certainly doesn’t taste like soap.

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  • 0ops@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m the opposite, overall I like cilantro (to a point, too much cilantro is definitely a thing), but I do detect a little bit of that soapiness that people talk about. Luckily not too much though, it’s mostly minty to me.

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  • TisI@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ok, completely irrelevant, but some older and cheaply made chocolates taste like soap, have you ever tasted it?

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    • Skanky@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nope. I try to avoid cheap chocolate though. Life is too short for that. Lol

      It’s hard to describe what cheap chocolate tastes like, but it’s day the best description is “waxy”

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• Naz@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have the opposite – almost all vegetation has a taste and it’s quite good.

  Basil? Yes. Garlic… Cabbage Spinach Asparagus Broccoli Carrots! Peppers! Beets!

  I just made a huge pot of Borscht last night with beets, carrots, potatoes, cabbage, tomatoes, basil and olive oil - it’s going to feed me for days!

  Feel bad for the people missing out on how tasty Earth plants are

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  • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I dislike grapefruit and durian. Otherwise, I’ve never met a plant I don’t like.

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• MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh yes, coriander. Yuck. I was so relieved to discover it was a genetic thing that I was scraping this disgusting weed off my food while everyone else was saying how delicious it was.

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• Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In other words, not liking cilantro is a generic defect

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  • apotheotic@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    People with this mutation are commonly known as super tasters!

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• CaptPretentious@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Every been in a public bathroom that has that pink soap. Cilantro tastes like that smells.

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  • TisI@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Seriously? Man I feel bad for you.

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• RebekahWSD@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It sucks. I love Mexican (texmex here mostly) food and almost all of it is shoved full of cilantro and then I’m just sad. Delicious food, ruined by soap.

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  • The_v@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OR6A2

    It’s likely linked to OR6A2.

    I had a coworker who had this gene and TAS2R38, the one that makes people taste bitter stronger.

    We ended up on several multi-country business trips together every year. So we were eating all sorts of local cuisine.

    I always tried to sit where I could see her face during any meal. It was comedy gold at times.

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    • metallic_z3r0@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have both, but I also have ADHD and prioritize the novel over the good. I find cilantro and bitter foods to be more interesting, and don’t mind them at all.

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• shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My partner and I both have this, it’s awful.

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  • Pilferjinx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It doesn’t taste like soap to me, but it’s intense. So much so that it ruins an entire meal. If I cut the amount to basically nothing it can be pleasant.

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    • TheRealKuni@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I compare it to the smell of stinkbugs rather than soap.

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    • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Huh. It’s just another herb for me. Not much different than Parsley. No strong opinions about it either way.

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    • Saturnalia@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That aligns with some things I’ve heard about flowers. For instance, a flower might contain skatole in its aroma. In very small amounts, it’s pleasant. In large amounts, it smells like what it’s named for, scat. At a low level, it makes jasmine and orange blossoms better. At a high level, you have a shit smelling stink bomb.

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• flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you want to know more about this (because in reality it is a bit more complicated) MinuteFood explains it pretty well in this video.

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• ZeffSyde@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To me, it tastes like what it was cooked in was never rinsed after washing. So much Thai takeout wasted even after I requested no cilantro.

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• Uri@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Finally got an excuse 😁

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• Tarkcanis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would characterize it more like a floral perfume.

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• m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My father had a crop of cilantro at one time and I never knew about somebody saying that cilantro tastes like soap. It was only a few years ago when I started to get my nose into Reddit when I read about people saying that.

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