Does anyone else hate cilantro?

[Hooked]

When I was growing up I was never exposed to cilantro, my Mexican food came from either taco bell or homemade with McCormicks seasoning. When I started working though I ate out and it was an Italian restaurant that I first encountered this vile herb. This Italian food place was new in a nice neighborhood, and they made a garlic pesto linguini that was the best, you would drive for 50 miles just to get it. They also gave you a big hunk of sourdough bread with a nice thick crust with good foil wrapped butter patty's on the side. This is a great restaurant, but then I cracked open the container on my chicken soup and it had cilantro in it. I was thinking cool some green herb like parsley or oregano, Hells No, this was the most bitter and awful tasting herb on earth.
Turns out hating cilantro is a genetic trait, so who else hates cilantro? and who loves it?. I figured with Cinco de mayo around the corner people should be aware.

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2015/...on-your-genes/

[shadowmouse]

I know a guy who has several genetic quirks with his senses of taste and smell. Like you, he can't stand the stuff. I, on the other hand, am quite fond of it and don't notice any bitter or soapy character to its taste.

[medievalman1]

Yeah, I'm not a fan of it. I was kindly offered and couldn't refuse a few too many ceviche dishes chock full of red onion (which I hate) and cilantro (which I now hate by association).

[Hooked]

We have an el pollo loco chicken place where I live, the best chicken legs on earth, bar none. Their chicken legs are so good you will dream about them, the tacos however get a big fat splash of cilantro. I Always stress to them no cilantro and like 30% of the time they still put it on them. I hate cilantro.

[Dys]

Haven't eaten it often, but I can say I don't like it. I don't hate it, I will avoid if possible, but I won't throw a fit if it can't be removed cleanly. It gives me a black licorice flavor that creeps in through pure smell, so that taste becomes the forefront of everything. I don't like black licorice either.

Now onions on the other hand, I have nothing but irrational, overblown hate for them.

[endersblade]

Cilantro is food of the gods. I love that stuff >.>

[Deleted]

Don´t use it often, but can´t make a good salsa without it.

[Super Kami Dende]

I fucking hate it with a passion.

All the Thai and Vietnamese places around me put it in and over everything, which near instantly ruins its normally amazing taste.

[J Allen Brack]

I pity the people who have that thing where cilantro tastes like soap. It's like, zippy and fresh. I love that shit.

[Milchshake]

How can someone allegedly live in the Bay Area and not encounter cilantro? Its the most diverse area of America. There's more Mexican places than McDonalds. There's more Pho? than McDonalds.

Thankfully one can grow cilantro pretty easily. I got a few plants going. Gonna be some killer salsa when the onions and tomatoes start coming in.

[endersblade]

I pity the people who have that thing where cilantro tastes like soap. It's like, zippy and fresh. I love that shit.

Your signature makes me want bacon.

[Deleted]

Fucking, love the stuff!

[Macaquerie]

I could never stand the smell or taste of cilantro, and it just completely overpowers the flavor of anything it's put in, so I try to avoid it whenever possible. I've eaten a lot of dishes that used it, and while I've tried to get used to it that is just never going to happen for me, and I was glad to discover that there's some kind of genetic basis for it and I'm not just crazy.

[Aliessil]

It's called coriander in the UK, and I love the stuff!!

I'm curious - for the people who don't like the leaf, do you also dislike coriander seeds / ground coriander?

[TheLimonTree]

I don't personally but my mother says it tastes like soap. Guess I lucked out that I didn't inherit that.

[Ichifails]

Don´t use it often, but can´t make a good salsa without it.

I didn't actually have any cilantro until maybe last year when I wanted to make salsa and every recipe recommended it.

It's fucking vile, disgusting. I don't know a single person that likes cilantro over parsley (apparently cilantro is Chinese parsley) and it simply ruins any kind of food you put it in. I'm really wondering if the cilantro we have here is the same as the one from other countries. Different tastes I guess.

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It's called coriander in the UK, and I love the stuff!!

I'm curious - for the people who don't like the leaf, do you also dislike coriander seeds / ground coriander?

TASTE TEST TIME BRB.
Edit: I can see seeds working, they taste nothing like the leaves.

[Independent voter]

My favorite bean recipe is


8 oz. dried pinto beans
6 ½ cups water
1 tsp. salt
1 medium onion, chopped
1 tblsp. canola oil
1 small fresh jalapeno, finely chopped
1 small ripe tomato, chopped
¼ cup chopped cilantro

It's part of living out here in the West.

[Feigr]

Cilantro tastes like burnt plastic to me, they ruin every dish they are in. It's not a huge problem for me since I never encounter it in any dish I eat because I don't eat out.

The seeds I have no problem with and regularly use when making curry.

[Howard Moon]

No way, I love it.

You can't make a good salsa without cilantro. And I mean real salsa, no that disgusting sugary thing that Americans pass for salsa.

[Deleted]

And I mean real salsa, no that disgusting sugary thing that Americans pass for salsa.

What do you mean?