Do you like cilantro?

Page 2 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.

Jzero

Lifer
Oct 10, 1999
18,834
1
0
I love cilantro. I agree that it tastes soapy, but cilantro and cumin are probably the two most important things that make Mexican food taste Mexican! The nearest, most authentic taqueria to me loads all their stuff with it....yum.....
 

ElFenix

Elite Member
Super Moderator
Mar 20, 2000
102,402
8,574
126
cilantro + chopped onion + lime juice = very good topping for all sorts of things (from fajitas to indian food)
 
Feb 10, 2000
30,029
67
91
I don't mind a little cilantro, but in quantity it ruins the taste of entire dishes to me, with its nasty, soapy flavor.
 

Draco

Golden Member
Oct 10, 1999
1,899
0
76
I think it sucks. CPK puts it on their BBQ Chicken Pizza and I always order it without it.

Anyone ever smoke it? I wonder if you can smoke Cilantro :)
 

olds

Elite Member
Mar 3, 2000
50,124
779
126
Originally posted by: geoff2k
Yes. Pace Cilantro salsa is our current favorite salsa.
Wow. People really eat salsa out of a jar? :disgust:
I make mine or get it from a local mexican store/resturant. They make it fresh everyday. I look forward to Sundays. 49ers, fresh salsa and beer. :D

 

trmiv

Lifer
Oct 10, 1999
14,670
18
81
Originally posted by: Moonbeam
There is at least one chemical I know of that has no taste of tastes bitter depending on the presence or absence of a gene.

Yea I read about that too in my searches on cilantro and genetics. So it would not be that far fetched that the same might be true for cilantro. I find the differences in people's opinion on it amazing. People either love it, or hate it. And, the people who love it can't understand why the people that hate it don't like it, and vice versa. It is such a vile taste to me that I am amazed that people can like it, so I am convinced that I do not taste it the same as they do.