On Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 5:03:52 PM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
> 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.

Apparently not. I can smell asparagus pee and I love cilantro.

It does have a vaguely "soapy" flavor, and when I first encountered it
I didn't much like it. Repeated exposure fixed that.

Cindy Hamilton