On 2019-04-11 2:04 p.m., jmcquown wrote:
> On 4/11/2019 12:15 AM, graham wrote:
>> 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.
>>> 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.
>
> ROFL!Â* I haven't heard about asparagus pee in decades.
Really? I thought that it was an annual topic here, usually starting at
this time of year because of the approaching asparagus season.
> Sorry, but I
> don't sit around sniffing my urine, I just get up and flush the toilet.
> Never noticed a smell after eating asparagus.
You usually don't have to go out of your way to smell it. Apparently
everyone's pee develops that smell when they eat asparagus, but some
people lack the ability to smell it. I wonder if there is a correlation
between being able to smell asparagus pea and cilantro tasting like soap.