On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 03:05:05 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>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:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>> 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
>> >> 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!* 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.

Sometimes one is aware that a flavour is strange, but one appreciates
it anyway. In my case that applies to cilantro and liquorice, for
instance.