Doesn't taste like soap to me. Tastes like delicious coriander.

by Anonymous 11 hours ago

There absolutely is, it's the combination of alkalines and fats that produces its iconic "soapy" flavour. Combine those chemicals, and youll always get soap flavour. Even scented soaps have the underlying soap taste

by Anonymous 11 hours ago

This implies, however, that flavors are monolithic in the sense that they should be objective. Except I hate lobster utterly and completely. Do I taste it the same as you do and I just don't like it? Do I taste it differently and that's why I don't like it? I'd be curious if the people who like the soapy herbs have a less offensive response to soapy flavors in general.

by RightPotato 11 hours ago

FYI coriander is the seed of the cilantro plant. Do with that information what you will.

by Anonymous 11 hours ago

You must have some delicious soaps

by Anonymous 11 hours ago

Experiences and genes don't line up perfectly objectively. Do people with the specific gene "taste" the same thing you do, or are they genetically disposed to dislike the same taste you taste? Hard to say. What we do know is some people don't seem to think it tastes like soap and do or don't like it (not everyone who doesn't have the gene likes it), and we also know that some people who do have the gene agree that it's a little soapy but don't dislike it. So… does the gene dictate what we taste, or what our experience of that taste is? No idea. We don't even know if we all taste things the same anyway. For example I'm not aware of there being a lobster-based-flavor-gene, but I hate every incarnation I've ever had (over a dozen varieties over 30 years), but some people love it so much. Are they tasting it differently than I am? Am I tasting the exact same taste they taste but find it repulsive? How does that work, how could I be tasting the same taste and not like it? How could I be tasting something different if it's the same food? We don't really know, but I know people pay a LOT of money for a food that I wouldn't eat if it was free.

by RightPotato 11 hours ago

Doesn't taste like soap to me. To me it provides a nice freshness to help cut through heartier foods. Great on burritos, for example

by dante38 10 hours ago

Well it doesn't

by Anonymous 10 hours ago

It doesn't taste like soap to me and I still think it tastes bad. I also hate it that whenever I say it to someone they immediately reply "That's because it tastes like soap to you". No, dickhead, I just don't like it.

by Anonymous 10 hours ago

I know what soap tastes like and coriander tastes nothing like it.

by Astridcruicksha 9 hours ago

You can't have an "opinion" that is "I think (this thing) applies to everyone lmao. That's not what an opinion is

by henry49 9 hours ago

I love coriander, though it doesn't taste like "soap" to me, but celery does.

by Anonymous 9 hours ago

Celery is also a bit of a weird taste to me, too.

by NefariousnessFree791 9 hours ago

I'm not sure about coriander but cilantro is from the same plant, I see. I'd always heard of this so I tried chewing some. At first it was just an unpleasant taste…….and there it was. Dishsoap. It was a terrible taste. Not buying that again.

by NefariousnessFree791 8 hours ago