Other than Ralphie, who knows what soap taste like?
Posted on 04/09/2021 10:43:50 AM PDT by mylife
You probably take your tongue for granted, or at least, don’t fully grasp the complexities of how it deciphers the flavors it encounters and sends those delicious or distasteful signals to your brain.
This is all the more important because things don’t always taste the same to different people. In fact, when it comes to the herb cilantro, the fresh earthiness you taste might actually taste like Palmolive or a fragrant bar of bathroom soap to someone else. There is a lot to wade through when it comes to common myths about food, but the idea that to some people, cilantro tastes like soap is no outlandish rumor.
Why cilantro tastes like soap to some people Whether you taste a mouthful of antiseptic when you chomp into a bite of cilantro-rich salsa comes down to a roll of the genetic dice. Specifically, it come down to the aldehydes—organic compounds in which a carbon atom shares a bond with another atom or group of atoms, per Britannica— found in cilantro, which are often used in various perfumes and cleaning products, owing to their pronounced fragrances.
According to the Cleveland Clinic, the aldehydes are best detected through the olfactory receptors, which allow you to smell things. The organization notes:
The difference may be small at the molecular level, but has large implications at the olfactory (smell) level. It’s suspected that a dislike for cilantro is largely driven by the smell (and smell is directly linked to how we taste.)
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A matter of taste as my family prefers the green onions. As far as chili’s are concerned, I have to stay in the middle due to likes/dislikes in the family :)
I do like your suggestions.
It’s both.
Coriander seems to have been cultivated in Greece since at least the second millennium BC. One of the Linear B tablets recovered from Pylos refers to the species as being cultivated for the manufacture of perfumes; it apparently was used in two forms: as a spice for its seeds and as a herb for the flavour of its leave
Other than Ralphie, who knows what soap taste like?
its like feta cheese,either you love it or you hate it..
Because it does.
The Devils Lettuce.
Sorry you lost me at can
so good!
I guess I need to add some cilantro to all my broccoli dishes to balance them out!
Durian and coconut: what do they have in common?
next week, we find the wild epazote, delve into the mystery’s of Mexican oregano and ponder “why is Italian basil so lame? there are other basils!
and does anyone eat parsley?
Because it does. ;) However it also gives me a headache, closed up sinuses, and makes me itch. I’m allergic.
I have also heard that Broccoli for some people tastes worse that shingles.
Cilantro
Coriander
Chinese Parsley
So I think this whole "soapy" cilantro controversy has been caused by Chinese Parsley.
Those Chicom bastards are at it again!
eat your paisley!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQrG4_Qh7JE&list=PLdWpGASByg6ymntkYlRCQL2V_wpdPl8oi&index=9
they’ll sneak anything in the stir-fry...
You can use canned or get the items in the produce section. I use the latter.
The first time I had cilantro I kept sending my burrito back because I said the dish had soap in it. I thought they didn’t rinse the soap off the plate. Then someone finally explained that it was cilantro.
Since then I have used it many times and I never tasted the soap. That is strange, isn’t it?
basically my experience.
“I have. Cilantro = soap”
BOOM!🤯
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