People who hate coriander/cilantro.
As far as I'm concerned, the genetic theory just HAS to be correct. There is no fucking way that that stuff can taste the same way to the people who like it as it does to us
I'm all about tolerance of what other people do with their bodies. I don't give a damn what your choices are, as long as they don't impact mine.
I draw the line at coriander. Eat it if you MUST in the privacy of your own home, but I'm seriously considering starting some sort of campaign to stop so many restaurants and food producers lacing everything they make with the stuff. People are (probably) genetically incapable of finding your food delicious if it's full of the evil green shit. Please stop ruining every salad I buy with your stink bug flavoured garbage-soap-herb.
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Oh, my dad has that gene too -- coriander tastes like soap to him, but like tasty herby goodness to me.
My coriander-hating solidarity to your father.
Ugh coriander. UGH.
My mum loves it, but only uses it as a garnish because I find it gross.
I remember buying a ricepaper roll, having been assured by a work colleague that this shop made very great rice paper rolls, and I bit into it and it was like a festival of coriander.
I HATE the stealth coriander inside the rice paper roll. It's the absolute worst kind of stealth coriander, because all the other flavours are so mild.
Yes!
Like most who are anti-Coriander as We are you may be a supertaster.
Pain: I've suspected it in the past. My tolerance for chilli is pretty near zero, even a light sprinkling of pepper overpowers a meal, and I happen to think tofu is tasty unflavoured. Coriander, though... it's in a whole new "That's not FOOD!" category.
I wonder if there's a similar gene for parsley, to which I have a similar reaction as yours to cilantro? I absolutely cannot stand parsley, particularly curly parsley. UGH UGH UGH.
That said, I, uh, luuurrrrvvveee cilantro. Eek.
The worst part is the cilantro seems to be a "trend flavor" around here, displacing sun-dried tomatoes and goat cheese. (Superior trend flavors if there ever were some.)
It's also exacerbated by the fact that it's used in lots of different cooking styles and so I can't escape just by avoiding, say, Indian food.
Anony: I have no idea. Taste is complex!
Evil Fizz: I actually don't object to stuff being COOKED with corriander, as long as there is a non-corriander option available. One Mexican place near one of my works literally has it in everything... not cool.
It's the use as a garnish that really shits me, as it ruins a perfectly good meal.
Also? It's fucking hilarious that I posted that many links on Feministe and the only post to get comments was this one :)
Coriander is the demon weed, I cant stand it, as soon as I open a jar of sauce, a sandwich, I can smell it.
what makes it worse is I love Indian food but they lace their food with it and now they're putting it in salad like its some kind of superfood.
I don't know if its just me but I can literally smell the foul herb before I taste it I know its in their and now I've taken to scanning the ingredients although sometimes they don't list it and I've taken a bite and tasted it and have had to spit it out, I don't know what it is that causes me so much revulsion I cant explain the taste its just revolting and words can't explain the hatred I have for it, I would be extremely happy if someone genetically engineered that herb out of existence, I also hate the taste of parsley that tastes soapy to me perhaps they're linked?
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