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In article >,
"James Silverton" > wrote:

> 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!


Might make an interesting survey...
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