re: Cilantro....the worst garnish ever. Yes or No

I hate cilantro.

Do you not like Mexican food?

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Are they not essentially the same thing...or am I mistaken

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If you ever buy a restaurant in your life, you will end up on restaurant impossible guaranteed

For some people cilantro just tastes different. I have read that it tastes soapy or metallic.

I think they can't smell or taste the compound that makes cilantro enjoyable to others.

creamy butter chicken curry and cheese naan with a tall, cool beer. Damn you, that would be awesome right now.

I guess I'll just beat off to the Care Bears to try and curb my appetite. Thanks a bunch.

No.

Yes, the stuff stinks.

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For some people cilantro just tastes different. I have read that it tastes soapy or metallic.

I think they can't smell or taste the compound that makes cilantro enjoyable to others.

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"Flavor chemists have found that cilantro aroma is created by a half-dozen or so substances, and most of these are modified fragments of fat molecules called aldehydes. The same or similar aldehydes are also found in soaps and lotions and the bug family of insects.

Soaps are made by fragmenting fat molecules with strongly alkaline lye or its equivalent, and aldehydes are a byproduct of this process, as they are when oxygen in the air attacks the fats and oils in cosmetics. And many bugs make strong-smelling, aldehyde-rich body fluids to attract or repel other creatures.

The published studies of cilantro aroma describe individual aldehydes as having both cilantrolike and soapy qualities. Several flavor chemists told me in e-mail messages that they smell a soapy note in the whole herb as well, but still find its aroma fresh and pleasant.

So the cilantro aldehydes are olfactory Jekyll-and-Hydes. Why is it only the evil, soapy side that shows up for cilantrophobes, and not the charming one?"

From this article at the New York Times

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It kills me when people don't like these or tomatoes.

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I can understand cilantro, but I've never understood many people's disdain for tomatoes. Is it a texture thing or what? I just don't get it

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I've never understood many people's disdain for tomatoes.

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Here's the deal for me - I'm all about a local, vine ripened tomato in June-August. However, outside of that, tomatoes are nothing but flavorless mush mucking up my otherwise yummy dish.

Those red things most restaurants and grocery stores peddle in no way tastes like a tomato should taste.