[jb55]

I am one of those people. The worst part of eating out at restaurants is finding out at the last moment that they put cilantro on everything, making it inedible. It might as well be called tryratpoison.com.

The site is not as unpleasant as cilantro so I will overlook it for now.

[rubiquity]

How can you possibly hate cilantro? It's smells so incredibly fresh and amazing, plus you can get more than you can eat before it goes bad for like 49 cents at any grocery store.

[jb55]

It's genetic. It has a very unpleasent soap-like taste. Even if there's a little bit it tastes like someone put a bar of soap in your meal.

[eseehausen]

There is a genetic predisposition toward finding it terrible. That's like asking a colorblind person "how can you mix up red and green; they're totally different?"

[rubiquity]

Interesting.

[rickhanlonii]

Because, to him, it tastes like soap.

> In the largest genome-wide association study of cilantro preference to date, 23andMe scientists compared genetic data from more than 25,000 individuals with European ancestry who declared whether they liked the taste of fresh cilantro or whether they thought cilantro had a soapy taste. We found that people with the AA genotype at rs7107418 had higher odds of perceiving a soapy taste in cilantro and higher odds of disliking the herb compared to those with the AG genotype, and people with the GG genotype had lower odds of perceiving a soapy taste or disliking cilantro. This SNP is close to a number of genes coding for olfactory receptors, one of which (OR6A2) is involved in detecting certain chemical compounds called aldehydes that are key components of cilantro aroma.

https://www.23andme.com/about/factoid/cilantro/