I love cilantro. I love the taste, I love the smell, I think it’s awesome. My wife however, can’t stand it. Apparently there is an anti-cilantro gene that some people have that makes it taste like soap or pine needles. It’s sad for me because I don’t get to eat it as much as I would like and I can’t share the joy with Amanda. Anyone else love or hate cilantro?
Sure, I like cilantro, but not a whole lot.
And if Biff can eat nuts for iron, I wonder if goes through a routine of eating a wide assortment of things each day for his nutition. Maybe he should just take a vitamin. Or maybe his diet is why he has surived for over 300 comics…
I adore cilantro. If my mother ever gets married, she’s going to have a bouquet of cilantro and purple flowers.
I love cilantro–but garlic is an absolute necessity.
Cilantro FTW
It really makes my Vietnamese Sub that much better!
The rest of my family, however, detest it. I’m pretty sure though, just because my step-dad doesn’t like it, everyone else says they don’t.
When I was a wee little lad, somewhere well under the age of five, I accidentially swallowed a 1/2″ hex nut. Apparently I’ve been a bit of a nut ever since.
Uhm… O-o what is Cilantro?
One of my best friends has that problem. I LOVE cilantro, but to her it makes food taste really soapy. Makes ordering Thai food very challenging…
Hurm… Don’t think I’ve ever had Cilantro, but I do like stewed pine-needles (Way to many survival courses at age 6 thanks to an overly cautious mom and living next to the woods) so I might like it even with the gene.
Coins taste really good though. Particularly nickles and dimes.
I’ve never heard of cilantro… Though, as picky as I am, I wouldn’t doubt that I wouldn’t like it. ^^;
Love or hate cilantro? Hah! I’ve never heard of the stuff!
Coriander (that’s the proper name for cilantro, by the way) is absolutely delicious, in my opinion. One of my dear friends is a chef, however, and swears that the stuff is death to any meal. Personally, I’ll put it in wherever I can, and justify it by reminding him that in folk medicine, coriander is said to relieve insomnia (which I’ve suffered from since childhood).
Sleepingorange, I think I love you.
Ok, for all those holier-than-thou “It’s called Coriander” people, the use of the word coriander in food preparation always refers to these seeds rather than to the plant itself. If you’re going to be so up tight about it, then correct people properly. I’m copying this directly from wikipedia.
The leaves are variously referred to as coriander leaves, cilantro (in the United States, from the Spanish name for the plant), dhania (in the Indian subcontinent, and increasingly in Britain). The leaves, and especially the stems, have a very different taste from the seeds, similar to parsley but “juicier” and with citrus-like overtones. Some people instead perceive an unpleasant “soapy” taste and/or a rank smell. This is believed to be a result of an enzyme that changes the way they taste coriander leaves, a genetic trait, but has yet to be fully researched.
For me, I don’t really pay attention to cilantro or anything.
My brother and my mom, however, HATE the stuff. My bro makes a face whenever cilantro is brought up, and my mom’s nose twitches when she smells it.
She can still eat Thai food without gagging, strangely enough.
I still snickered at the vitamin joke. (iron
I love cilantro. Use it in all kinds of things. my girlfriend, any time, she is presented with a dish containing cilantro, complains that it tastes like perfume.
One wonders how she knows.
Ryan: you speak as if Wikipedia is actually a reputable source …. but I recognize a challenge when I see one
According to “Herbs and Spices: A Gourmet’s Guide” by Karen Farrington (Carlton Books, 1999), it’s “coriander”. The word “cilantro” does not occur in the book at all. According to Wayne Gisslen’s “Advanced Professional Cooking” (John Wiley & Sons, 1992), “cilantro” refers only to the leaves, and the plant as a whole is called “coriander”. According to Raush and Lotz’s “Lexicon of Herbs” (Rebo, 2004), it’s “coriander”, with the colloquial names of “bedbug plant”, “bedbug dill” or “cilantro” also being recognized.
Not intending to be a pretentious bitch here, but seriously. I was simply commenting in passing on the usage of the colloquial name, and you’re the one who jumped down my throat about it. You might consider looking things up somewhere other than the Internet before rushing to the soapbox.
WTF is Cilantro??
I know I could JFGI or even read thru the comments, but, I’m not into being intelligent.
Oh wait, don’t answer that, it is coriander.
mmmm Tasty stuff.
I learnt a new word for something I already had a word for.
“Hi Ben, and welcome to the internet” Haha.
I guess this is like my mum not liking olive oil, personally, I can drink the stuff, but she says it has an overwhelming flavour. Freak.
I haven’t read through the comments, so I don’t know if someone has already suggested it, but:
A few members of my family hated cilantro for a while, but we figured out that if it was fresh (i.e. not from Safeway) the soapy flavor wasn’t there. Everyone in my family now loves cilantro.
Hope this helps.
It’s really weird how people’s tastes differ so greatly. I LOVE cilantro, which is great because everyone else in my family does too. I also love rosemary. I really HATE mint. I don’t care for bay leaves, and basil is a little strong for me.
i love cilantro. i make pasta at my house and add in nearly all the spices on the shelf. it tastes pretty good.
One of the few times I’m stopping to comment on a post, just because I have something to comment on (imagine that).
I love the smell and taste of cilantro…in fact, I used to work at Taco Bell, and the fact that they use fresh cut cilantro in their fiesta salsa is why I loved making it so much. The recipe calls for half of a bunch as shipped, and I always wound up using the whole thing. Everyone else hated doing the fiesta salsa because it was more work, but I loved doing it because I would get to chop the cilantro for it. Also, you mix it with your hands (gloves on, of course), and I love working with food with my hands like that.
I’m just weird, right?
a bunch of these people say they chewed on metal stuff for iron. I chewed on pennies.
hmmmmm…
What on earth is Cilantro??
I don’t DISlike cilantro, but I won’t go out of my way to eat it.
Also? Never combine cilantro with pineapple. I tried that at a Mongolian BBQ place a couple of years ago and it tasted absolutely vile.
Pine nuts and cilantro(coriander leaves, to anyone outside the US) both taste to me a lot like soap smells. I’m told it’s a genetic thing – whether you can taste one particular compound that’s in it determines whether you’ll love or hate the stuff.
My mother loves cilantro and can’t understand why my siblings and I think it literally tastes like dirt.
I seriously hate cilantro. The faintest whiff or taste of it makes me gag.
Both my mother and brother abhor it. It tastes a bit like plastic to me, but it’s bearable in small quantities. Although, sometimes when I get salad and there’s a big thing of cilantro in there, it’s an explosion of bitterness. Ick.
I happen to love cilantro, but I really get angry when you buy flat leaf parsley instead. I have no idea why my local grocery store still keeps them right next to each other.
Cilantro’s great. Then again so are some kinds of pine needles…
what’s wrong with the taste of pine needles?
I love Cilantro~ I can eat it by itself by the bowl.
Had to look up cilantro. It’s just called Corianda leaf down here. I think it’s the same genetic/chemical thing that works against brussel sprounts.