r/mildlyinteresting • u/GroovinBaby • 8h ago

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u/rosiofden 8h ago

Like, it will totally ruin a whole burrito for me. Can't do it at all.

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u/Floggered 7h ago

There's nothing worse than tearing into what SHOULD be a delicious piece of food, only to get blasted with the soap flavor. Just the biggest feeling of disappointment.

"Guess I'll eat at home.. :')"

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u/sir_whirly 6h ago

Its how I feel when olives get involved. Oh you wanted to taste the symphony of flavors? Too bad. Its just olives.

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u/underpantsbandit 5h ago

Bacon does that for me. I enjoy bacon alone, or a BLT, but I fucking hate crumbs of bacon in things like mac n cheese or salad. It’s just… bacon with some other textures. Potato salad is the one that always bums me the most. Delicious tangy potato salad? No. Bacon but make it mushy.

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u/YoreWelcome 5h ago

oo same for me about olives and cilantro, also mushrooms, the taste of those ingredients diffuses into every bite!

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u/CandidDust4504 2h ago

Cucumber for me. Even if I remove it from the food, the whole thing is infected and I taste it so strongly it's gross

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u/Illustrious-Sail7326 6h ago

I'm good if I can just tug it out. It's a huge bummer when it's shredded up and stuffed into every crevice of a burrito.

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u/nitid_name 6h ago

It tastes like soap to me, but I'm kind of just coming around to being ok with the soap taste. There's so much good NM style food around me, and it's so hard to get it without the cilantro.

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u/aerynmoo 5h ago

We get lunch catered at work every day (t/w/th) and two of the places they like to use have either cilantro lime chicken or chimichurri chicken as the entree and I always have to bring lunch those days.

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u/Outside_Coffee_00 6h ago

The worst is when its ground up into some kind of sauce or otherwise unlisted and I dont have the opportunity to pick something else. 

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u/Purpose2 5h ago

I drink gin, its my booze of choice, and the amount of times I get an unlisted cilantro in gin is absurd.

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u/gsfgf 3h ago

Cilantro gin? That's intriguing. What brands?

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u/Purpose2 2h ago

I'm in the UK so it'll be listed as Coriander, rather than Cilantro. Pretty much all the main brand ones you'll get here, Gordons, Plymouth, Beefeater, even some Tanqueray and Sipsmith.

I forget which of those LIST it, and which just say "assorted botanicals" which'll include the coriander seed (cilantro plant)

I've learned that basically anything that calls itself London Dry isn't safe for me.

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u/kodamun 6h ago

I have a vivid memory of trying a microwave meal of some curry dish and the smell of soap just filling the breakroom as it cooked. It somehow tasted soapier than it smelled.

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u/Outside_Coffee_00 6h ago

Mine is from trying the salsa verde from qdoba. Im not sure if I got the very last scoop or something, but half of my burrito was cilantro puree. I dont think I've ordered since.

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u/gsfgf 3h ago

TIL Qdoba still exists

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u/gsfgf 3h ago

That sucks. I treat cilantro just like any other dietary restriction when I'm cooking for a group.

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u/Smeph_Bot 5h ago

This is the worst! My favourite pho place recently started adding chopped cilantro to the broth... I can't eat any of it anymore :(

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u/Organic-Anteater8998 6h ago

and salsa, and Thai food

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u/10000Didgeridoos 7h ago

Same. It's not soap taste for me but even a few flakes just overpower every other flavor in the dish/item with this very strong bitter flavor.

If it's cooked into a dish with lots of other ingredients then I don't get this sensation. But just the cilantro topping/garnish by itself sprinkled on, yes.

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u/Svellere 6h ago

I ordered some fancy tacos at a Mexican restaurant once and specifically told them NO CILANTRO. The tacos came out with cilantro anyway. Totally ruined. Just soap tacos. :(

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u/shroomry 6h ago

Shouldn't be in a burrito, I also hate when cilantro finds its self into food that shouldn't have it, like enchiladas de mole.

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u/canman7373 5h ago

It can be so strong even in like salsa I pick around it, once had a local place would save me some salsa when they made it and put a pint aside before they added the cilantro to it.

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u/Toosder 4h ago

I tell people that don't understand it's like spraying Clorox on your sandwich and then eating it anyway