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The Wandering Harper

(915 posts)
Wed Nov 13, 2024, 03:50 AM Nov 2024

I'm one of those people who thinks cilantro tastes like soap, and I like it

I told a friend and she was like "cilantro: all the fun of eating soap with none of the digestive distress."
When I heard about washing the mouth with soap as a punishment when I was a kid, well,
of course I had to find out what soap tastes like!
I liked it, but the burning of the lye put me off

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I'm one of those people who thinks cilantro tastes like soap, and I like it (Original Post) The Wandering Harper Nov 2024 OP
Re: Cilantro karijofromMT Nov 2024 #1
Welcome to DU The Wandering Harper Nov 2024 #2
Same. I taste the soap but still love it MaryMagdaline Nov 2024 #3
I love it now, but initially thought it unpleasantly metallic rather than soapy. Harker Nov 2024 #4
It tastes like soap to me, and unlike the posters before me, PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2024 #5
Omg you reminded me of a poster's response to a -previous- cilantro thread...they said it was like having electric_blue68 Nov 2024 #12
What gets me is the things they put cilantro on! Phentex Nov 2024 #20
You're not susposed to make a salad out of it, it's a spice. Hotler Nov 2024 #6
I know some artists in Mexico Kali Nov 2024 #17
I'm One Of The "Others" ProfessorGAC Nov 2024 #7
It is one of those genetic things. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2024 #15
Makes Sense ProfessorGAC Nov 2024 #18
God love ya............I love cilantro soap! Ladyhawke1 Nov 2024 #8
It gives me cold sores... Ysabel Nov 2024 #9
I don't know if it's soapy or metallic but fresh cilantro is not my fav.Now dried? taste fine and I like it. weird, huh mitch96 Nov 2024 #10
dry cilantro has almost NO flavor Kali Nov 2024 #16
I would try another brand. Also if you toast it a bit (I toast all my dry spice) it comes to life better, more flavor.nt mitch96 Nov 2024 #19
I've never had cilantro but according to 23andme... Different Drummer Nov 2024 #11
Uh, oh. Should u want to experiment just pinch off a tiny piece in the supermrket electric_blue68 Nov 2024 #14
I love cilantro. Was fascinated to learn IF I remember correctly the soapy taste happens when a child inherites a... electric_blue68 Nov 2024 #13
Dunno. My two kids are split Phentex Nov 2024 #21

karijofromMT

(1 post)
1. Re: Cilantro
Wed Nov 13, 2024, 04:01 AM
Nov 2024

I love it, and it most definitely tastes like soap. I hated it when I first tasted it, yet for some reason I wanted to like it, so I kept eating it. After about 30 times of eating it, I developed a taste for it and now will not cook or eat Asian or Mexican or Indian food without it.

Harker

(15,655 posts)
4. I love it now, but initially thought it unpleasantly metallic rather than soapy.
Wed Nov 13, 2024, 08:49 AM
Nov 2024

If I didn't now eat anything I disliked initially, I'd be bored.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(27,325 posts)
5. It tastes like soap to me, and unlike the posters before me,
Wed Nov 13, 2024, 09:54 AM
Nov 2024

I do not like the taste of soap.

And nothing enrages me more than someone who says, oh, there's only a little cilantro in the dish. Maybe you're fine with only a little soap in your food, but I'm not.

I'm curious, have any of you ever tried sprinkling real soap in your food? Does that taste like cilantro to you?

electric_blue68

(20,097 posts)
12. Omg you reminded me of a poster's response to a -previous- cilantro thread...they said it was like having
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 04:29 AM
Nov 2024

Irish Spring shavings in their dish! 😄

Now, I'm laughing at the description; not the actual unhappy experience.

Phentex

(16,599 posts)
20. What gets me is the things they put cilantro on!
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 03:06 PM
Nov 2024

Many places use it like parsley and then the dish is ruined. I don't eat out much but when I do I have to specify PLEASE no cilantro because it might arrive on the vegetables or the main dish even though it's not listed on the menu.

Hotler

(12,721 posts)
6. You're not susposed to make a salad out of it, it's a spice.
Wed Nov 13, 2024, 10:11 AM
Nov 2024


You guys may like this, Salsa Verde. Don't buy salsa ever again, make your own, this freezes well. Enjoy.
https://mexicanfoodjournal.com/salsa-verde/

Kali

(56,101 posts)
17. I know some artists in Mexico
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 11:21 PM
Nov 2024

one said they were so poor when he was a child he was happy to have some cilantro to fold into a corn tortilla for a taco.

ProfessorGAC

(71,725 posts)
7. I'm One Of The "Others"
Wed Nov 13, 2024, 01:20 PM
Nov 2024

It does not taste like soap to me.
I'm glad for that, because I'm not sure I'd like it if it did.
Somewhere around 10% of people get the soap taste. So, I luckily stayed in the big majority.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(27,325 posts)
15. It is one of those genetic things.
Fri Nov 15, 2024, 08:33 PM
Nov 2024

Like being able to curl your tongue. I can't.

Or having attached or unattached earlobes. I have one of each. So does my mother and both my sisters. My brothers all have matching earlobes, I think unattached but I can't remember for sure.

Once I was in a college biology class, and the teacher was going through those various things, and when he got to the earlobes I raised my hand and told him I had one of each. He refused to look at them, while the students around me all said, "Yes, she does!"

ProfessorGAC

(71,725 posts)
18. Makes Sense
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 06:44 AM
Nov 2024

I'm one of those that can't roll my tongue, as well. Neither of my parents could.
I don't have any blood siblings (adopted sister) so I have no further frame of reference, but sure seems genetic.
I don't know if my parents tasted "soap" because cilantro wasn't much of a thing when my mom & dad were still alive.

mitch96

(14,978 posts)
10. I don't know if it's soapy or metallic but fresh cilantro is not my fav.Now dried? taste fine and I like it. weird, huh
Wed Nov 13, 2024, 02:35 PM
Nov 2024

mitch96

(14,978 posts)
19. I would try another brand. Also if you toast it a bit (I toast all my dry spice) it comes to life better, more flavor.nt
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 09:54 AM
Nov 2024

electric_blue68

(20,097 posts)
14. Uh, oh. Should u want to experiment just pinch off a tiny piece in the supermrket
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 04:39 AM
Nov 2024

wrap in a tissue, wash at home, take a nibble.

Course, I could understand if you don't! 👍

electric_blue68

(20,097 posts)
13. I love cilantro. Was fascinated to learn IF I remember correctly the soapy taste happens when a child inherites a...
Thu Nov 14, 2024, 04:35 AM
Nov 2024

recessive gene from each parent that will induce the soapy taste. 😬

I get a faint soapy taste, with mostly it's green, and sort of tanginess coming through instead.

Phentex

(16,599 posts)
21. Dunno. My two kids are split
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 03:08 PM
Nov 2024

my husband loves cilantro as does one of the kids. The other gets the soapy taste like me. I have no idea if my parents ever ate cilantro!

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