I hate cilantro!

You don't like food, do you?

I mean, I hate raisins, but I'm learning to get over it. I don't particularly care for cooked sweet peppers but I'll eat them. I get my finickyness out of my system by being a vegetarian.

Oh wait, I just remembered. LICORICE!!! UGH! UGH! WASH MY MOUTH OUT WITH SOAP! YUCK!!!

(BTW, you have eaten both tofu and cilantro in my cooking before without complaining. Or, ooh, err, were you just being polite?)

try Piquillo peppers though - nummmest of nums

Kate and her cooking of cilantro and tofu are exempt because she made them for me when I was sick and blasted the snot right outta there. Boooom!

The only thing I will not eat is raisins cooked in savoury dishes (esp curry). Their horrid puffy fatness 'Oh I used to be a grape dontchaknow' really gets my goat.

I like raisins but I wish they'd stay out of my cinnamon buns.

surely that's a complaint....

Things I would not eat when small: egg yolk, bread crusts, mayonnaise, meat fat of any kind, raw carrots (gave me tummyaches), Stouffers Spinach Souffle.

altho, i love olive oil.

I rarely enjoy eating eggs. They have to be REALLY hard scrambled. Mushy eggs are grody. That's right - grody.

stewed tomatoes are icky, but usually big enough to catch with a fork and hurl across the room to the bin. fresh tomatoes on samiches are VERY icky. They make everything all watery. (see also: spinach on pizza - c/d?)

My food hate extends to: onions (raw onions rather, they're great in soup and whatnot), licorice and the spices that make things taste similarly foul, and mushrooms, although I suspect that I actually like mushrooms now and am just being stubborn.

Oh, and fucking caraway seeds.

Ugh! Ugh! Ugh!

I like raw tomatoes, but not on sammiches. I always pick them out and eat them separately if I can't avoid them.

-- El Santo Claus

OTMFM. same goes for green olives. olives in general. ick. i too am fond of olive oil. it's nothing like the real things.

as far as cilantro goes, the more the better. deliciously fragrant herbal treat! chop it finely, mix it in with your sour cream or yogurt and put it on your mexican dishes, etc. it's quite tasty.

Neil's tomato sauce

You will need: garlic, onions, chopped tinned tomatoes (drained, keep the juice no matter how watery), passatta, balsamic vinegar, port, pinch sugar, salt, pepper.

in 1 pan: mix half port, half juice from tinned toms, wee bit balsamic, pinch sugar, salt pepper. Boil like mad until reduced a lot. Skim crap off the top while doing this. Put through a fine seive to get rid of all the solid crap.

in a wok: sweat chopped garlic and onions, add drained tomatoes and passatta, cook em up for a bit, add some tomato puree, a wee bit of balsamic, sugar, salt and pepper, cook for a while. Add reduced port/tom juice. cook some more.

Eat with pasta.

I think you need to get a feel for making this and for the proportions/times (hence why it's all a bit vague). the key is in all the wee extra bits that bring out the flavours (balsamic + sugar)

You've never had Cajun food, have you?

But this is ingredients - there are lots of awful dishes made from pefectly good ingredients that I avoid if possible.

The most notable food I don't like is eggs. The closest I'll get is quiche, because the eggs are masked by cheese, veggies, and a yummy buttery crust. But even omelettes make me want to puke. Scrambled, forget about it. Also, I'm not too keen on black olives (but green are heavenly).

The only thing that comes to mins when I think of foodstuffs I just cannot abide is OKRA. Bleah.

And I am not a huge fan of chocolate. I always thought it tasted like dirt.

Ha that's almost exactly like me. No vegetables, no seafood, and nothing too weird. I wonder if it's a St. Louis thing.

I hate nuts in my dessert.

OH THE ARRAY OF JOKES...

gin tastes like pine trees smell. I like it.

-- RJG (r_gillander...), August 29th, 2003 11:08 AM. (RJG)

And to all y'all cilantro hataz in the house...I have never tasted soap-like cilantro, so whatever it is y'all are having must be tainted with some nasty shi. That is why I grow my own! I should make ya a cauldron o' sweet-ass stew (no ass needed) and TURRRN YA OH-'N!

There is not a single food I won't eat. Well ok, I guess I will also cop to the licorice/anise - dislike expressed upthread. BUT THAT'S IT.

Cilantro is my absolute favorite herb. I love dishes that feature it.

Brussels Sprouts are absolutely wonderful. And gin, well, my liver is pickled in the stuff.

Otherwise, I'm good.

My food hates are pretty minimal and are mostly limited to condiments (ketsup, mayo, mustard, and relish) and ultra-sweet things like some cake frosting, soda pop, most candy, and whipped cream. I also don't like red berries (cherries especially) from the same sweetness reason, but tart strawberries are OK.

sheesh

yeah, for real. where does all this squeamishness come from?

I think my stupifaction with food haterz stems from once dating a woman who had a bunch of foods she would not eat. It drove me absolutely batshit. I will never date a person like that again.

Sounds delish!

Michael, are you pregnant?

IF SO, WHO COULD THE FATHER BE, HMMM?

frosting, egg, pregnant - you get the picture.

My Mayo Squeamish: in uni I worked at Subway for a summer, and the smell of mayo by the gallon in a hot, humid work environment was just too much. the smell began to make me sick, especially as I had to ladle it out by the ice-cream-scoopful and dump it into the "seafood" mixtures. And then you'd get the people who would come in and request extra, so I'd be dumping it onto their footlongs so it dripped with mustard in large dollops all over everything. Dear god. I'm going to be sick just thinking about it....

I also reinforced my anti-onion stance working at Subway since I had to cut them. You don't know pain until you've cut ten pounds of large raw onions in a sitting. And that's not even getting into all the raw meat handling. Subway is not a job I recommend.

MR MAYO SQUEAMISH: An Eager Businessman
CORIANDER CILANTRO: A Hero with a Sword and shit
SPENCER CHOW: A Louse
THE METROSEXUALS: A Popband
COCKFIRE: A Donut who is also a Villain

Scene: MR MAYO SQUEAMISH is sitting at the bar in a smoky, dark club. THE METROSEXUALS are on stage warming up for their first song. SPENCER CHOW is standing nearby chugging booze and feeling sorry for himself. The music starts in, full of vigor and disgust for the status quo, yet tempered by a desire to please the fans and a slight lack of imagination.

THE METROSEXUALS (bangin'): COME ON LETS DO THE METRO SEX, BA BA BUM, YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO DO THE METRO SEX, BA DUM BUM, HEIRONYMOUS THROWDOWNS IN YOUR FACE LIKE A WICKED LIE, IF DIDN'T KNOW IT YOU WOULD DO OR DIE, SUCKER PUNCHES FOR THE DEMONS IN THE SKY, PARTY LIKE A ROCKSTAR etc.

SPENCER CHOW: I cannot eat beans, any beans.

MR MAYO SQUEAMISH: Louse.

(CORIANDER CILANTRO enters. The music stops as he raises his voice to make an announcement to the general public.)

CORIANDER CILANTRO: I have come in search of the villain Cockfire. He is a donut. Has anyone here seen him?

MR MAYO SQUEAMISH: What in tarnation is going on?

SPENCER CHOW: Frosting, egg, pregnant- you get the picture.

MR MAYO SQUEAMISH: What in the sam hill is wrong with you, boy? (leaves the bar and approaches CORIANDER CILANTRO)

MR MAYO SQUEAMISH: Sir, you look like you could use some brussels sprouts. Have you ever had a fine, fresh, organically grown brussels sprout? They taste like strong, powerful cabbages. I can sell you five pallets of them for a truly amazing low price.

CORIANDER CILANTRO (spots a donut): My quarry lies within sight. Pardon me.

(CORIANDER CILANTRO approaches the donut on tippy toes.)

CORIANDER CILANTRO (with vim): Ha! (spears the donut on sword, examines gelatinous results) Drats! Wrong donut! I'm very sorry, everyone.

(COCKFIRE smashes through the wall of the club, massive and glazed. He wields a pistol-like device with obvious malice. Aiming at CORIANDER, he fires a stream of miniature Eiffel Tower souvenirs in quick succession. SPENCER CHOW, in the wrong place at the wrong time, is summarily filled with pewter.)

COCKFIRE: Whoops!

CORIANDER CILANTRO: Damn you, Cockfire! You pigfucker!

THE METROSEXUALS (as a chorus): Yeah! Pigfucker!

MR MAYO SQUEAMISH: Dadgum!

(CORIANDER CILANTRO leaps across the body of SPENCER CHOW and stabs COCKFIRE in the eye. COCKFIRE shudders, causing several multicolored sprinkles to fall off and tumble to the floor.)

CORIANDER CILANTRO: Take that!

COCKFIRE: What is this supposed to even symbolize? (dies)

SPENCER CHOW: I was mistaken. Read too much into it. Nevermind. (dies)

MR MAYO SQUEAMISH: I'm feelin' terrible! (vomits)

(CORIANDER CILANTRO hauls the body of COCKFIRE through the hole in the wall and exits. THE METROSEXUALS resume their set from the beginning. MR MAYO SQUEAMISH winds up losing his job after being transferred to the Frosting division and his children are unable to attend college as a result and wind up turning to petty crime or seasonal labor. SPENCER CHOW wins a posthumous medal from Congress for his selfless act.)

THE END

Things I pretty much won't or don't eat: okra, clams, eggplant (unless in Middle Eastern or Indian food, where I love it, and I'm willing to try Japanese), pork (I've been known to cheat with prosciutto or soppressata), peanut in any form (unless in Thai food, where I love it)

Things I have yet to really try and fear: brussels sprouts, mango (allergy possibility)

Things I'll eat in the company of other stuff but don't have any great love for: tofu, cabbages, coconut, bell peppers

Something I ate in two meals today: sauteed onions

Something that I must eat nearly every day or I don't feel right: raw tomato

Clarke OTM. I think these food phobias must be an upbringing thing..

I've said on other threads what I think of pineapple on pizza; suffice to say that I think it a tragic waste of good pineapple. And those people who compared mushrooms to slugs are OTM.

I've tried liver several times, but still don't like it, and I don't understand those who do. But beef heart stewed in red wine is great.

I don't hate cabbage or brussel sprouts, but I don't understand you people who love them. Nor do I understand those who don't like licorice (unless it's that "strawberry licorice" abomination). Actually, now that I think about it there's lots of candy I hate: circus peanuts, white chocolate, malted milk balls, and anything with coconut. At least this makes it easier at Halloween; I buy candy that I hate in case any trick-or-treaters come around, and am not tempted to eat any of it myself. Then I take the leftover candy to work the next day.

Yes, but this may depend on the quality/type of carrot or how it's cooked or its role in the dish. If you want to challenge this and expand your raw-carrot love, you may get more of a carrot taste than a sweet taste by cooking for less time and/or cooking (usually smaller or baby) carrots whole. Try yellow or red or purple ones, the kind you find at the farmer's market (or Marvelous Market, etc.). Pair them with different root vegetables, such as beets, parsnips, and/or potatoes, similarly-cooked. Cooking everything in a vinegar glaze can add a certain amount of tartness.

I hate cilantro and am convinced that if you don't, then you can't really taste it.

no, I absolutely can taste it and grew out of my dislike for it to love it.

(side note: is my Mom the only person in the world who pronounces "cilantro" as if it were Italian - "chee-lan-tro" - instead with a soft 'c'? perhaps because she uses it interchangeably with Italian parsley. it's evidently Latin Spanish, favoring the latter, but there seems to be some confusion.)

The above is still the craziest thing i've read on this thread. and no offense to rosemary. it's just that i believe that eating pie is one of the reasons we were put on earth.

I can't really eat green or red peppers that are raw, though I will scarf them down if they're lightly sauteed. And as I've stated before here on this forum, I'm repulsed by cheese, though I have started working in a few very mild cheeses into what I can tolerate. I don't like regular sodas unless they're regular Cherry Cokes, and even then I can only drink it once every other month or so. I've tried some brussels sprouts and have found out I view them the same way I view broccoli -- I love them raw (Chris P, you were OTM!), adore them steamed for a short while, and hate them when they're cooked any further. I can't eat canned tuna if it's been packed with oil. I can sorta relate to Ally's complaint of oil intolerance -- I can still tolerate some level of oil, but I can't eat greasy food without my stomach staging a revolution against me. And I don't like pimentoes in olives. Hm. That's about it, I think.

it is natural to dislike food. dislike oooonnnnnn!!!!!!!

Yeah, that's amusing me too. There's no food I won't eat.

Well, except... no, nothing.

How do you all deal with your hates? If you're invited somewhere for dinner, do you call ahead and request "please no Ingredient X"? Or do you ust avoid it? Or do you choke it down with a curse and feel instantly ill?

Yeah, that's amusing me too. There's no food I won't eat.

Well, except... no, nothing.

How do you all deal with your hates? If you're invited somewhere for dinner, do you call ahead and request "please no Ingredient X"? Or do you just avoid it? Or do you choke it down with a curse and feel instantly ill?

(xpost)

That was enough to ensure I'd enver eat THAT again.

She is now vegan. Hrm....

As anyone every tried Benchley's black turkey?

At a dinner party at a friend's house last night, I made the comment that I don't think I could trust a person who didn't like cilantro.

the other times its delicious!

Only genetics + taste thing I remember? :D

anise/licorice is nice. licorice ice cream & licorice tea are some of my favorites. I've been meaning to get a bottle of pastis, I think I'd like it.
http://www.kraftfoods.com/stelladoro/images/products/toast_sponge/anisette_toast.jpg

a lot of processed/premade foods are pretty gross & inedible I think, except stuff from the trader joe's.

no, wait

hoes, over cilantro, dude

i can understand why someone wouldn't care for licorice, but it's maybe one of my favorite flavors in the world (though i've never liked red licorice a la twizzlers).

Cap'n Save a Ho: Coriandre? And yet I know thee not?

acquired hate: chili powder! a bad batch of corner stand tamales had my every orifice steaming with the stuff; sweating, vomiting, breathing, smelling chili powder for hours. Makes me nauseous even now. cilantro is awesome.

I worship onions but I am getting mightily sick of eating, say, falafel or hummus and my breath smelling inescapably of onions for the rest of the day.

As a kid I loathed the smell of creamed corn. I recall hiding under a blanket on holidays when dad was making creamed corn on toast because of the smell. The hell? I love it now. So many veg I hated as a kid: peas, pumpkin, raw tomato, carrots... I adore them all now. I discovered it is all in the in the freshness and in the preparation. If you eat bad food as a kid you'll hate it, obv. Being forcefed overcooked cabbage and pumpkin ain't going to convince any child.

Now mind you, gimme a plate of buttery cabbage, or sweet roast pumpkin, or peas simmered with fried onions... num.

But coriander. Yuckkk.

Or, more accurately, I hate the word 'cilantro'. We call it coriander in the UK, which seems to suit it, rather than cilantro which makes it sound like a faux-Italian alcoholic drink.

also, i just read this whole thread, and all of you are mentalists! except ally, tom, tracer, paul, and jess! why does this not surprise me?!

if so, we call the seeds "coriander seeds", and the herb "coriander".

its easy when you know how. i love cilantro/coriander.

question: what is te relationship between coriander and flat leaf parsley, and why do they look so similar and yet one of them taste so useless?

Cilantro is most of the food I cook regularly (Indian, Vietnamese, Mexican, Thai) and I always have a bunch of it in a glass of water in my fridge. It lasts at least a week this way.

I can't drink beers with coriander seed in them because they taste too much like Indian food.

my mom pronounces it this way (i think we did this already)

What experiment?

!?!?!?!!!!!!!!

The comparison between the two amongst those who hate cilantro is universally similar. Kinda like the asparagus/funny pee smell thing.

http://www.ihatecilantro.com/stats.php

Some foods are just icky though - seafood, tofu, mushrooms, olives (excepting olive oil), cantaloupes, mangoes, pineapple, brussels sprouts, most poultry, offal, sausage, eggs, parsley, sultanas and raisons (except in moderation in buns and fruit cake - otherwise they're just poor little dead grapes), turkish delight, and purple jellybeans.

Some coriander chopped in a curry is good, because it doesn't overwhelm the other flavours and seems to be balanced by the heat. Never ever as a garnish though.

I can't really think of any food I don't like. Besides rocket and tofu.

i cannot abide green peppers. when eaten raw, they make my tongue slightly numb. i can handle red and yellow peppers, but only when well-grilled/roasted.

^^^ yes

It's not nec picky to hate cilantro. u_u

i don't understand hating any food

i hate peanuts

i am sorry, but i just don't buy the whole genetic determinism thing.

i mean, i do, but it just boggles the mind.

i hate peanuts

OTM

cauliflower. it's the tofu of vegetables.

watercress, with a passion.

http://blog.holidays.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/1015i.gif

oh wait! i do hate a food -- PRINGLES. Pringles are foul fucking evil potato simulacra. Even the smell of other peoples' Pringles makes me wanna yack.

Pringles: the original OPP

I FUCKING HATE CILANTRO TOO!

white people be hatin cilantro.

newsflash white people are fucking insane

I don't know where that puts me cause I am the original mr lily white but cilantro is a necessary staple for living

fuck this thread is full of madness

hating peanuts

that's like hating sunlight you goth bastard

unless you're allergic, my bad if they'll actually kill you

I don't understand the race card. Cilantro is teh yum.

anticilantroism is a stupid fad, i never bought it. makes the BEST salsa.

white peoples like cilanto they just call it coriander

Peanuts are the only nut I don't particularly mind. But that's their whole point, I guess. They're like the U2 of nuts.

<i>red peppers, green peppers, coriander, celery, bok choy, water chestnuts, onions, cucumbers, uncooked tomatoes, uncooked carrots, iceberg lettuce, honeydew melon, cantaloupe, watermelon, Red Delicious apples, grapefruit, walnuts, peanuts, mint, fresh water fish

-- Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 19 December 2003 13:38 (4 years ago)</i>

I have since overcome my hatred of red peppers and coriander/cilantro.

The rest remain foul.

I'm with you on water chestnuts, those things are blurg. And honeydew and cantaloupe. And walnuts. Other than that, obviously you are nuts and I am better than you, etc.

red delicious apples usually suck, i don't think i've ever had one that is not mealy. i require a crispy apple.

MELONS RULES THEY ARE DELICIOUS

what about all the white people in mexico, they like cilantro

peanuts aren't nuts

i only like peanuts in thai food and eggplant in indian or turkish food. also Mr. Que otm.

i like peanuts i like cilantro i am white and yes i like pringles sure

red delicious apples are bad, but i don't hate them. i might hate golden delicious, though.

red delicious are used for cooking.

red delicious are one of the least interesting apple varieties but there are lots of them that are non-mealy and perfectly good. also, tarter apples are better for baking.

macintosh for cooking

i thought those green ones were the cooking ones

Depends on what you want: Macs are so good for eating and break down into sauce, but don't hold up in pies. Spies and Idas are good for pies, but a couple of Granny Smiths will always help the flavor. And so on! A whole world of apples.

Greenings for pies

I hate ONIONS, god they're offensive. Render everything they touch inedible.

I hate raisins IN things, although I like raisins on their own.

Love cilantro.

cauliflower. it's the tofu of vegetables.

-- wanko ergo sum, Friday, January 11, 2008 3:52 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

^^this

I hate water chestnuts and I despise meatloaf.

Blue cheese is vile; tastes like a mouth full of mold.

But I love cilantro, so go figure.

hating onions is completely insane. hating blue cheese is just sad.

i was just going to say so many good things require an onion

like cilantro

mods change the title to the big baby wah wah food thread plz

i've got my onion dislike rolled back to the point where the only situation i'm not a fan on is big pieces of raw onion on pizza. even then, you know, whatevs.

i love cilantro and basically everything else.

The more I read this thread, the hungrier I get.

Blue cheese is vile; tastes like a mouth full of mold.

that's cause it is mold

I think we talked about this recently, and I was all "but practically every cuisine everywhere on the planet, like the most basic thing human beings do is chop an onion and put it with meat and fat/oil and cook it." Like onion + garlic seems like the fundamental cooking base of the entire Planet Earth.

xpost That is not making blue cheese sound any more appealing, you know

tasty tasty mold

mmmmmm

onions frying in olive oil is a delicious smell and is the first smell you smell in many awesome recipes.

that is fundamentally OTM there nabisco

http://ffmedia.ign.com/hannibal/multimedia/hannibal-krendler-dinner.jpg xp

I like the flavor of onions, I just hate actual pieces of onion. So my onion hate usually involves such mentalism as cooking things in onion and then taking out the onion.

this thread proves that everyone in the world is fucking insane except maybe chaki

I think we talked about this recently, and I was all "but practically every cuisine everywhere on the planet, like the most basic thing human beings do is chop an onion and put it with meat and fat/oil and cook it." Like onion + garlic seems like the fundamental cooking base of the entire Planet Earth.

btw vaisnava cooking (=Hare Krsna food) uses no onion and garlic, ever, and is some of the most delicious food anywhere!

who would have ever dreamed that a blanket statement about the whole of humanity would turn up exceptions

that's right, i'm going there

Afoestida to thread

Asafoetida

rather

and Jains.

who would have ever dreamed that a blanket statement about the whole of humanity would turn up exceptions

omg I owe you so many beers, onion & garlic optional obv

My willingness to partake of every edible thing shall ensure my survival in the upcoming famine. I shall follow the haters like Gollum and scavenge what they toss away. Good times.

Mom's Sofrito Recipe

Lots of cilantro
Lots of minced fresh garlic
one green pepper, chopped fine
lots of olive oil

Sautee and use as flavoring for beans and soups and stir fries. Freeze and use over and over.

all the hare krishna food i've had has tasted like papier mache

yes, and been accompanied by ear-rattling nonsense talk

i didn't like cilantro for a while when i first tasted it but now i eat it all the time
i only recently, in the last year or so overcame my dislike of peanuts
one of the strange things about being a very fussy eater in my youth is that i am still "discovering" different foods at my advanced age

I have never understood those prohibitions against onions, garlic in different religious traditions. I mean, it's usually said that they're too "stimulating", right? But I don't remember ever turning into some hormonally-raging beast after consuming garlicky or onion-stuffed foodstuffs.

My list of dislikes is short

- raw celery (most of the time)
- raw marshmallows
- anise/black liquorice

Besides that it is pretty much all good. Except for really specific things like egg foo yung and sea urchin roe.

I love cilantro. It is weird though--it really gets in your sinuses, doesn't it?

Not crazy about raw oysters either.

There was a Hare Krishna restaurant in the town where I went to college. Pretty good stuff, actually.

I have never understood those prohibitions against onions, garlic in different religious traditions. I mean, it's usually said that they're too "stimulating", right?

I thought it was something about not eating things that grew underground. I remember seeing Jain-marketed hot sauce that had "no onions or garlic" on the label, but chilis are probably more stimulating than either. I have no real factual idea about this though.

Also, cilantro is delicious.

Wikipedia says "...others exclude root vegetables from their diets in order to preserve the lives of the plants from which they eat..."

how do they know that individual leaves of lettuce don't have little green souls?

joygote,

yeah, i guess that makes sense from jainist point of view, but i think other traditions are against it b/c it stimulates "the passions" or whatever

fuck you if you hate cilantro

-- ath (ath), Monday, April 17, 2006 11:49 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

haters of onions, cilantro, and other sources of flavor:

what incredibly boring culinary lives you must live

jesse's dislikes are remarkably similar to mine, except for the marshmallow.

how is this even a thing

cilantro is the gr8est ever

how is cilantro even a thing for people. i can see pringles or any other non-food. but why would anyone want to disinvite a principle player in any taco party????

Hang on, isn't cilantro what Yanks call coriander? Freshly chopped coriander is the best smell in the world!

This may have been mentioned somewhere way upthread, but apparently the people for whom cilantro 'tastes bad' or 'tastes like soap' can't help it. This may be due to an enzyme some people have and some people don't that actually changes the way people taste cilantro.

cilantro definitely tastes extremely soapy to me. i think i'm a pretty fussy eater, but i can't help it - i wish i was less fussy, but i kinda blame on having grown up in a family where my mum threw out all her pots and pans when i was about 3 and bought a microwave. her cooking was of the meat-and-3-vege variety.

foods i hate:
olives
capers
anchovies
chili
mushrooms
corn

but like gershy i'm still discovering new foods. i think i was like 20 before i tasted avocado and capsicum for the first time.

I say the Krsnas should give onion and garlic a try, what's the worst that can happen

the Bhagavad-Gita sez they're in the mode of darkness so you can't offer them to Krsna, and you're only supposed to eat stuff that's been offered to Krsna = no onions and garlic 4 U

these coriander hating enzyme genes need to be eradicated.

i don't dislike cilantro but so many establishments need to remember to be easy

I love food. All of it.

There aren't too many foods I dislike. Almonds and walnuts are the ones that make most people think I'm crazy. I don't really fuck with mayonnaise but I can tolerate it more than when I was young. Certain processed meats (paté, baloney) really gross me out too.

I only dislike really intense tasting foods like kalamata olives or anchovies. I remember hating water chesnuts as a kid, but I haven't had them in a long time, and I hated a lot of vegetables that I now love. (I'm definitely discovering new foods too. This spring: asparagus! It turns out if I don't prepare it the way my mom does - i.e. cook until limp - it's actually quite tasty! And every new food I "discover" turns into an obsession that I make my roommates eat once or twice a week until I get a new one.)

sbed all these cilantro haters

I used to hate it, but in the past year have gotten over it.

It's coriander, people. Yes it is.

Fun fact: Different places have different names for things!

Wiki says America's the only place its called cilantro... anyway!

Also never knew the seeds (and thus powder that'd go in curry) tastes diff from the leaves, according to the wiki. I shall have to test this as I do not like coriander leaves... and yet I love ginger. I dont see a similarity at all.

I've made myself like more things I used to not like much; olives and feta cheese most recently. At this point I only dislike cucumber, coriander, v hot chili (more an allergy than a dislike though), fennel, and melons of all kinds (watermelon, rockmelon etc).

i always get cilantro and cinzano mixed up

That could make for one hell of a foul cocktail.

fancy a martini?

fancy a hurl more like it.

Trayce, it's known as "cilantro" throughout the western hemisphere, and, I would presume, in Spain.

Well tell that to wikipedia which redirects cilantro to coriander and says its "also known as cilantro in the americas" ;P

(ps I dont care tbh either way heh)

oh wow cilantro julep...! could be a fantastic idea. gotta make the cilantro way less prevalent than mint in the standard julep. i am gonna go get started on this will report back later.

a bar I go to has a frozen chili mango batida w/ cilantro in it, it's unbelievably delicious.

"The Americas" = the western hemisphere, no?

i would eat cilantro in all this americas

i've had it in a bloody mary before, it was dope

Cilantroicallitcoriander is good! You guys are crazy.

I can't really think of any food I don't like. Besides rocket and tofu.

― Roz (Roz)

i don't hate rocket anymore, quite like it even. still working on tofu.

There's a gene which makes coriander taste like soap for some people.

cilantro is the grand puba of all herbs and spices

cilantro porn:
http://fuckyeahcilantro.tumblr.com

Freshly chopped coriander is one of the nicest smells in the world. Chop those stalks! Yummy.

I'm on the anti side. Those little green leaves ruin everything they touch. I can understand why people usually go for the soap comparison but I prefer my brother's description: "It tastes like something you're not supposed to eat, like a weed someone just yanked out of the ground."

"It tastes like something you're not supposed to eat, like a weed someone just yanked out of the ground."

See, this is what I think about parsley, but cilantro, while closely related, is great.

Y'all upthread are a bunch of picky eaters. About the only thing I will refuse to get near ever again, under any circumstances, is menudo. Tripe soup, even when seasoned with all sorts of lovely Mexican spice, is just a BAD idea.

Just bought a big bunch of cilantro. Quesadillas for lunch! Ooooh yeah.

I think all you weirdos need to start your own "I love cilantro" thread. This is a thread about disgust and commiseration, people.

I thought Menudo was that revolving-door boyband that Ricky La Vida Loca was in?

it is also a soup

i'm going to grow cilantro this summer!

when I was a kid, I saw a dead bird on my driveway. My nextdoor neighbours had a garden patch, and the smell of cilantro came toward me. Thinking it was the bird I could smell, I decided that I was smelling rabies. Now I can't eat cilantro because it "tastes like rabies" to me. Stupid cilantro.

Stupid "cilantro"?

hey now

It is coriander.

Try searching small town UK for 3 hours for 'cilantro' (thanks to a US-orientated cookbook) to make a special Chinese curry dish for Mother's Day, before discovering that you ALREADY HAD 3 JARS OF THE DRIED STUFF AT HOME under a different name.

To contribute, I never really saw the appeal of humous.

It's like someone put paper and some olive oil into a blender.

people talk about this alot IRL

If hummus tastes like paper and olive oil yr doin it rong.

It cant be bland! It's full of garlic and cumin and lemon juice!

Now we know why

Yeah, saw that on the other cilantro thread this morning.

“So I began to like cilantro,” he said. “It can still remind me of soap, but it’s not threatening anymore, so that association fades into the background, and I enjoy its other qualities. On the other hand, if I ate cilantro once and never willingly let it pass my lips again, there wouldn’t have been a chance to reshape that perception.”

This palate-retraining is happening to me, thanks to the fantastic tacos at El Pargo (RIP) in Columbus. Nothing on 'em but really good grilled meats, chopped onion, cilantro, squeeze of lime.

It's funny that cilantrophobes associate it with saponacity since it tastes particularly clean to me for some reason, but I've loved it since I first had it.

Thank you, that's zupah-interesting. I don't think I've never known what "bug" smelled like but I can still hate walking past produce sections with giant armfuls of stinky cilantro.

I can't imagine tacos or pozole w/out it.

Laurel, what do you think of coriander?

I don't know, I've never bought or used it myself. I'm sure I've had it in restaurant food at some point, and I don't remember objecting particularly.

Cilantro itself can be reshaped to make it easier to take. A Japanese study published in January suggested that crushing the leaves will give leaf enzymes the chance to gradually convert the aldehydes into other substances with no aroma.

I suspect that coriander (from cilantro seeds) doesn't contain any of the aldehydes that offend you.

I love that we've gone from coriander to ignorance to cilantro via its re-introduction via a foreign cuisine. It reminds me of rocket/arugula.

And, in America at least, mâche/lambs lettuce.

Speaking of arugula, this caught my eye: “Cilantro and arugula I don’t like at all. They’re both green herbs, they have kind of a dead taste to me.” - Julia Child

...because cilantro even makes me wary of parsley, which I otherwise like. If I have cilantro followed by parsley, the latter is more offensive b/c of its similarity to the former. It's like reverse taste-therapy that actually makes me MORE averse.

How do you feel about Italian (leaf) parsley?

M. White, Food Psychotherapist

Sometimes a banana is just a banana!

sometimes people just don't like cilantro

M. White, Food Psychotherapist is more like it.

That's what I was referring to. I like it, grow it, use it, will even sneak into produce aisle under the beady gaze of buckets of wet, bruised cilantro just to help a bunch of flat-leaf parsley defect to my kitchen counter.

I'm curious as to whether her cilantrophic carry-over toward parsley applies more to Italian parsely, which has a texture more similar to cilantro, or the more bitter, stemmier, crunchier normal parsley.

xpost

So, if cilantro didn't have its specific aromatic flavor, you'd otherwise be fine with it?

How about Thai basil?

I recognize that flat-leaf parsley is similar to the demon herb, but parsley alone doesn't trigger enough of a reaction for me to dislike it -- in fact I want the complexity/freshness/tang it adds to a lot of recipes.

Have never cooked w Thai basil, possible I have had it on something but I couldn't say for sure. I chiffonade normal Italian basil for topping home-made Thai soups etc, even tho I know it's not quite right.

Anyway, I remember the first time I ever had cilantro: in the student caf, in college. I asked why someone had topped their lunch w sprigs of parsley and they gave me some to try. Disliked it from the very first.

I am living proof that a palate can be retrained to like cilantro (in moderate quantities and specific circumstances).

Are there different kinds of cilantro, the way there are different kinds of basil? It seems like the cilantro used by Mexican restaurants on tacos is milder than the cilantro served by Vietnamese restaurants with pho.

maybe they use culantro?? some people say papalo is very similar to cilantro, just stronger, but it has a very different taste to me.

maybe this also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_coriander
never noticed that mexican cilantro is milder than elsewhere, i can't really deal with papalo

pretty interesting - study found genetic link to cilantro hatred
http://gizmodo.com/5942551/genetic-proof-that-you-really-do-hate-cilantro
http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.2096

cilantro sucks shit

sorry your genes have made you miss out on awesome cilantro and also made you dumb

not your fault i guess. genes. what can you do.

I lvoe being dumb

Hm. I mildly dislike cilantro and agree it tastes soapy, but I'll eat stuff with a small amount in and would not say I "HATE" it.

Now I do not know if I am a genetic cilantro-hater or not. Both of my parents will happily eat it so I guess I'm not.

Cilantro is gross in Cuban food: it overpowers the stuff.

I don't like it, but sometimes jus a titchy bit in a curry can give it an authentic edge.

Soaking it in water helps if you're eating it raw

The leaves have a different taste from the seeds, with citrus overtones. Many experience an unpleasant "soapy" taste or a rank smell and avoid the leaves.[9][10] The flavours have also been compared to those of the stink bug, and similar chemical groups are involved (aldehydes). -Wikipedia

The chemicals that make up a stink bug’s stink are called aldehydes, and they are different in different species. In low concentrations, the aldehydes have a pleasant odor. Some of the most common aldehydes in the “stink” of a stinkbug are described by chemists like fine wine: “green, pungent, spicy vegetable odor”, “diffusive orange odor with floral topknots” and “green, citrusy, orange”. But stink bugs concentrate these chemicals so much that they become wholly unpleasant, even irritating.

I don't think cilantro tastes like soap, exactly, but I used to describe it as "too green" or "aggressively green."

I've gone from loathing to mild dislike, and in a decent taco, cilantro/onion/hot sauce/squeeze of lime is the right way to go.