Omelet wrote on Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:17:10 -0600:

>> 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? :-) --

As a statistic of one, it doesn't seem to be. I like cilantro!


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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

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