• tygerprints@kbin.social
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    But what about cilantro. It tastes like s#it. To me. Yet everyone else seems to love it. It’s very bitter and acrid, I don’t like it. I can barely handly the slightest hint of garlic in most food. I prefer the taste of food without embellishment - like meat without sauces or spices, it’s already pretty flavorful as is.

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            1 year ago

            Maybe she “grew me wrong,” but I guess that’s how you people pass judgment on others who aren’t exactly like you in every way. If that means I was grown wrong, then I truly thank God for it.

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                Then I do humbly apologize for being thin skinned. I’ll force myself to go eat cilantro as a punishment.

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                    Not soap, exactly, for me it’s more of a bitter flavor. I guess i can see how you could come to like it, like learning to like blue cheese, if you eat it enough. But a lot of foods are overpowering to me that other people eat by the buckets-ful. I think most people have a cast iron gut, which I really envy.

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          This is the best TIL I have had in the last several months. I always thought they were all just wrong about the taste, but they were actually just wrong genetically.

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        I realize to most people that would sound absurd, but for me it’s true! Ranch dressing, anything with even a hint of garlic or more than couple herbs and it’s just too strong for me. But then again I don’t like black pepper, or peppers, or garlic or onions either, so – pretty much I just use salt and not much else in my cooking (and it doesn’t seem bland to me at all).

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          I was just referencing a humorous trope about white people thinking everything is too spicy. I have no actual judgements about what flavors people like and dislike.

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      Sounds like you are a super taster. My wife is a super taster too. She can’t eat food that has been in the same room as cilantro. She likes meat cooked medium well, with maybe just a hint of season salt. She is the only person I know who likes easting salad without any dressing. Anything spicy is absolutely out of the question for her, including green peppers.

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        That sounds like me in every way. I also make my salad with no dressing on it, I prefer the taste of the veggies which are quite strong to me. And I don’t even put syrup on pancakes, it overwhelms the amazing taste of them. I like meat with just a hint of salt also. Maybe we were separated at birth! Everyone has unique flavors they like or don’t like.

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      I like it because it has a unique, sharp, pungent flavor that is unlike anything else I’ve ever eaten. I can’t get enough of the stuff. I could literally put an entire bunch of cilantro in any dish that calls for it. Doesn’t taste bitter nor acrid at all. It makes a lot of Asian and Mexican dishes taste so much better. I wish I could better describe what it tastes like to me to people who don’t like it, cause y’all are really missing out.

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        To me it’s so bitter I can’t even bite down on it. It reminds me of syphoning gas for the lawn mower as a kid and getting a mouthful of kerosene. BLECH.

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          Man that is so foreign and bizarre to me. My mouth is watering just thinking about cilantro right now.

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            Well all of us have unique likes and dislikes, maybe our tastebuds are as unique as our fingerprints. I only know that I can’t abide the taste of cilantro. I do use a lot of other herbs, like thyme and basil that a lot milder, but only lightly because - well I love how things taste without other stuff on them. I am weird that way.