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15 June 2007
My husband took me out to a Mexican restaurant Why didn't you tell me pico de gallo had CILANTRO IN IT!!!!!!!! →[More:] I still have that taste in my mouth. Ptui!
my experience is that people either like cilantro, or think it tastes like soap...and yes, nearly everyhting in american tex-mex restaurants has cilantro in it...
"my experience is that people either like cilantro, or think it tastes like soap..."
posted by Schyler523 15 June
Put me in the "tastes like soap" tent. Particularly when lopped in with bad tomatoes and old garlic, as a "freshner," with too much lemon or lime juice.
Menus should carry cilantro warnings... Though, bunnyfire, as ico says, everyone knows that everything in Mexican restaurants in the States has cilantro in it. :) I haven't even been to the U.S. in about 10 years, and haven't had Mexican for longer than that, and I knew it. *shakes bunnyfire* Come to your senses, girl!!!
I think to get an uncilantro entree, you need to call ahead three weeks in advance, or something.
Wife often complains about the difficulty buying Cilantro in the supermarkets around here. I have no real opinion about it, if you tell me, that salsa that you're eating has a lot of cilantro in it, I'll notice it but otherwise I'd never know.
Wow, I have never met anyone that dislikes coriander (cilantro). Live and learn.
Yeah, it's strange - going by how often 'cilantro rage' crops up on the web, coriander is the US equivalent of Marmite (which actually uses the advertisting slogan "Love it or hate it"), but elsewhere in the world it's just, you know, a herb that most folk like, and some don't.
I think it might be because 'cilantro' sounds like a cleaning product.
My husband tells me we are used to eating sonorran mexican food which has little to no cilantro. Apparently the stuff you get around Mexico City or other areas has plenty of the noxious weed.
Hubby is from Colorado and KNOWS his mexican food. He also used to work in the onion fields in Arizona and got to share stuff that the little mexican grandmas would sneak over the border to his coworkers. (Let's just say when the feds showed up hubby was one of the few who wasn't hiding.) Can't hardly get the man to eat onions to this day.
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