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On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 23:39:24 -0400, jmcquown >
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>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. 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. Either your grocery store sucks, or your
>>> taste buds require greater stimulation than mine.
>>>
>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>

>> Boy, howdy! Cilantro may be green but it certainly doesn't taste anything
>> like parsley. 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. So no way
>amd I going to add chopped (or dried) cilantro to anything. Parsley is
>a whole different thing.
>
>Jill


when I first tried it (cilantro) I disliked it and thought it had a
bad taste. But I wanted to be authentic so I tried it again and again
and now I miss it if not in certain dishes. I do certainly understand
your distaste for it though.
Janet US