In article
>,
Leonard Blaisdell > wrote:

> In article >,
> "James Silverton" > wrote:
>
> > Since the genetically deprived have been loudly proclaiming that
> > cilantro tastes like soap or has no taste, I am probably genetically
> > programmed to say that bay leaves have no taste to me whether they come
> > from the Mediterranean, California, the West Indies, Indosesia or
> > Uzbekhistan.
>
> I'd enjoy a wad of grass or single maple leaf thrown in and fished out
> as much as a bay leaf. But that's just me. I understand that I'm missing
> something.
>
> leo

I also get nada from bay leaves.
I wonder if it's the same gene that makes Cilantro taste like soap? :-)
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