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Graham

On 2019-04-10 9:39 p.m., jmcquown wrote:
> On 4/10/2019 9:52 PM, wrote:
>> On Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 11:44:25 AM UTC-5, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 11:36:40 AM UTC-4, notbob wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Regular flat Italian parsley and reg cilantro taste almost the same in
>>>> the produce section of most sprmkts.Â* It was "organic parsley" that got
>>>> me started into "organic".
>>>>
>>>> nb
>>>
>>> I can always tell the difference between parsley and cilantro
>>> at the grocery store.Â* Either your grocery store sucks, or your
>>> taste buds require greater stimulation than mine.
>>>
>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>
>> Boy, howdy!Â* Cilantro may be green but it certainly doesn't taste
>> anything
>> like parsley.Â* Nasty stuff to me; as Ina Garten says about cilantro "not
>> now, not ever."
>>
> I'm one of those people who thinks cilantro tastes like soap.Â* So no way
> amd I going to add chopped (or dried) cilantro to anything.Â* Parsley is
> a whole different thing.
>
> Jill
While I agree with you about cilantro, parsley to me has never been more
than a decorative herb, its flavour so inconsequential that drying it
would be a waste of time.
There must be genetic markers to match up with people's likes and
dislikes of some herbs just as some lack the gene to smell asparagus pee.