Fun Fact Friday
Happy Friday, Noshers! What are your plans for this weekend? I’m meeting a friend for brunch, and hopefully stopping by the farmer’s market – my fridge is looking a little bare! Nothing like some fresh produce to replenish!
This fun fact relates to one of my favorite herbs:
Image from howstuffworks.com
Cilantro is a love/hate herb. Some who despise it are actually genetically predisposed to sense a soapy taste in the herb!
As for me – I will have cilantro anytime, anywhere! Yum!
Are you a cilantro fan – yay or nay?
I love cilantro – I think it makes anything better. One of my co-workers hates it and will pout through her entire lunch if there is even one sprig of cilantro on it!
1@Kim – One sprig is all it takes to affect all the food in its vicinity. It can (and did, it sounds like) ruin her whole meal. I’d pout too, especially if I spent a lot of money on it.
I can’t be anywhere near cilantro. I react to it the way you’d react to tasting poison. When I first heard about the soap thing, I was intrigued, because although cilantro does not taste soapy to me, pine nuts do. Can’t eat those, either.
2LOVE IT. Have never understood the soapy thing…I don’t taste it! It tastes like perfection to me.
3As a brown man, my answer is definitely YAY
4Love cilantro! So tasty and fresh.
5Yay all the way! I love the smell and I definitely put lots of it in my fresh salsa and gauc!
6I used to dislike it as a child – it is definitely a pervasive flavor – but now I love, love, love cilantro. In fried rice, it is divine.
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