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Original poster

To think this offensive thing should be banned

106 replies

InanimateCarbonRod · 14/01/2015 13:00

Fresh coriander . To me, when I eat it accidentally, it tastes like nasty bitter soap.

I've got a lovely spiced Indian chicken breast with KEENOWAH quinoa for lunch from the local deli and there is coriander chopped up into millions of little bits and I can't pick it out.

On second thoughts maybe this should go into the first world problems thread.

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beachyhead · 14/01/2015 13:37

Dill is the worst....

GotToBeInItToWinIt · 14/01/2015 13:39

YABU. If you'd said parsley, on the other hand...

My heart always sinks when I go I to a deli or similar and they've sprinkled parsley on something in the misguided opinion that it looks 'posh'.

limitedperiodonly · 14/01/2015 13:48

Coriander tastes soapy to me. So does rosemary and lime. Interesting that it could be genetic.

I detest the taste of lime and it makes me cough. I politely asked a bartender in a very trendy bar if she would plonk a slice of lemon instead of lime in my gin and tonic and she ignored me. She also smeared a cut lime round the rim of the glass. I asked for another because I couldn't drink it. It was making me gag.

She looked at me like I was mad. Possibly I am, but as it's also mad to pay £8 for a gin and tonic, I think the least they could have done was indulge me.

My number one hate is eating what I think will be a traditional roast chicken dinner and discovering that the cook has followed the MN advice to shove a lemon up its bum. Bleugh.

I like chicken marinated in lemon when I am expecting it.

But not for my Sunday lunch with two veg. Thyme is good. I'll tolerate tarragon and garlic instead but I will be disappointed.

Beetroot tastes like mud. So does trout, carp and all freshwater fish. I've tasted actual mud so I know what I'm talking about.

limitedperiodonly · 14/01/2015 13:56

Dill is the worst....

I forgot about that beachyhead. If I was famous and doing Heaven or Hell on Saturday Kitchen my food hell would be gravadlax with dill and beetroot.

But Dill the Dog was my favourite character in so I can keep an open mind.

Original poster
InanimateCarbonRod · 14/01/2015 14:05

Ok ok so IABU about banning it but I agree that it should say in big huge red letters CORIANDER WARNING.

cozietoesie you poor thing! I struggle to understand how the first person that discovered coriander, smelled it and thought OH YUM!

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dexter73 · 14/01/2015 14:07

I love coriander! I doubt it is a first world problem though as I imagine there are people in third world countries who don't like coriander either.

Fluffyears · 14/01/2015 14:26

Blergh awful stuff, apparently the same thing happens to people with Brussels sprouts some people just taste them as an inoffensive green veg and other like me beleive they are made from satans bogies. so if it genetic do this of you who hate coriander also hate bitter Brussels bogies? I hate both x

dementedpixie · 14/01/2015 14:29

I hate coriander and rocket and also celery but do like sprouts

ConfusedInBath · 14/01/2015 14:32

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MrsTerryPratchett · 14/01/2015 14:33

Science, innit! I love Brussels and hate coriander.

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InanimateCarbonRod · 14/01/2015 14:43

Love sprouts, obviously hate coriander Grin

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Shodan · 14/01/2015 14:47

I love coriander.

I do not, however, like lamb's lettuce. This is because, imo and in the opinion of those I have interrogated, it tastes like spunk. And there is nothing I want less in my mouthful of chicken and bacon salad than the taste of spunk.

Pickled gherkins should also be abolished for looking like dead green slugs floating around in dead green slug water. And tasting gross too, when you have failed your search and destroy mission on your burger.

chocolateorsalad · 14/01/2015 14:48

YANBU. I'm another who thinks it tastes like washing-up liquid. If it's in a recipe I leave it out. Nothing is going to convince me it tastes nice.

CyclopsBee · 14/01/2015 14:48

YANBU coriander is vile, it's the devils pubes,

I love sprouts,cabbage,parsley and most 'erbs but hate,hate,hate coriander

CornChips · 14/01/2015 14:52

Love coriande, cannot bear basil, which smells and tastes like cat piss to me.... we have basil in the kitchen on occasion, and it gets me prowling and smelling in the corners hissing about 'that bloody cat'.

Fluffyears · 14/01/2015 14:58

Celery is God awful rank stuff too! Blergh.

BreconBeBuggered · 14/01/2015 14:58

Washing-up liquid? How...what..I mean...eh?

Coriander is delicious. (As are Brussels sprouts.) Parsley, though. I'm gutted if I spot coriander and it turns out to be a wretched sprig of parsley when I get close up.

Also don't really get the love for basil. I'll grudgingly eat it, but I'm wishing all the time that it wasn't there. Perhaps I share the cat-piss gene with CornChips.

BadgersNadgers · 14/01/2015 15:00

I hate coriander but I like all other herbs.

Bananas are wrong.

Sprouts are delicious.

Pineapple makes the lips on my face itch.

maitaimojito · 14/01/2015 15:00

I used to have this opinion on coriander but I think I've eaten it enough times to like it.

Dill on the other hand is still offensive.

FurryDogMother · 14/01/2015 15:01

I hated fresh coriander until I was 34. I used to ask for it not to be added to curries etc., - and then one day DH and I were invited to dinner by a friend, who served up a massive salad which was mostly fresh coriander. I didn't have the heart to tell him I hated it, so ploughed through a pile of it - it still tasted like soap until I was almost done, and then something strange happened and I started to enjoy it. Ever since then (20 years ago) I can't get enough of the stuff! This makes me doubt the 'it's genetic' claim - but I can't explain why eating a load of it in one go would change my perception of it so radically. Maybe it really is an acquired taste?

ChocolateOranges · 14/01/2015 15:03

I love coriander, basil, parsley, celery and sprouts. I have a basil plant in my kitchen and will often eat a leaf in passing. Mmmm. My daughter wouldn't eat it if you gave her £50 a leaf.

Tangoandcreditcards · 14/01/2015 15:10

When I worked in a supermarket in my teens the smell of fresh basil used to make me feel sick. Now I love it.

Coriander also has grown on me over the years, although I never HATED it like I did basil.

Parsley I have gone off. DP detests it and now he's pointed it out I really don't enjoy it any more (except cooked with lamb). On the other hand, he's come around to coriander.

I therefore don't believe the genetic thing: balanced with the right other flavours fresh herbs are a good thing.

badgers I DESPISED pineapple until I got pregnant, and now (1 year after DS) I really enjoy it, except for the little voice in the back of my head whispering "but it tastes like sick, y'know"

SlightlyJadedJack · 14/01/2015 15:16

Shock coriander is my favourite herb, it's delicious and nothing like the evil that is celery!

SlightlyJadedJack · 14/01/2015 15:19

I love brussel sprouts too.

limitedperiodonly · 14/01/2015 15:19

I like a crunchy stick of celery with a bit of cheese balanced on top. Could be any cheese.

I also put it finely chopped in what the TV chefs call mire poix and I call bulking.

My MIL loves my minestrone (based on the MN Everlasting Chicken carcass stock) but if I'm doing it for her, I leave out the celery because she finds it disgusting and can detect it like The Princess and the Pea. She's not a fussy eater or an evil MIL. She just hates celery.

Peas are my favourite vegetable btw.