“You could just eat cilantro. It tastes like soap.”
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It’s not the cook who did anything incorrect, TexasGator.
There’s about 10% of humans for whom Cilantro does indeed taste something akin to soap. It’s in the genes, funnily enough. LOL
I cannot tolerate Cilantro in any cooking, at all.
In fact, I’ve described Cilantro as, “lettuce that someone has eaten, thrown up and served to unsuspecting customers, like myself.”
Yes, Cilantro does indeed taste that badly. Where I eat, the servers know that if there’s any, and I do mean ANY Cilantro on my food or plate I will cut up/destroy the food and send it back for new food.
It is that bad for my taste buds.
I never knew about cilantro AT ALL until I met my Mexican (now US citizen) wife. I don’t happen to mind it, and even love her cilantro salad dressing to death.
However, we have noticed that a certain number of people that we have had to the house will HATE it - with the complaint that it tastes like soap). This is the SAME batch of cilantro, or cilantro-based dressing or whatever, that is eaten by people that LOVE it. So it is NOT the preparation of it, or how fresh it is, it is the tastebuds of whomever it is who consumes it.
Remember Bush 41’s intense dislike of broccoli? Well, he was a “super-taster,” someone with an unusually acute sense of taste. I have a feeling that something similar is going on here with the cilantro. Some people are just never going to like it, no matter what.