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Julie Bove[_2_] Julie Bove[_2_] is offline
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Default There *is* a cilantro gene


"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 24 May 2012 09:20:18 -0400, Jim Elbrecht wrote:
>
>> Thought this was interesting-- Now I'd like to see a comprehensive
>> study asking about EVOO and some of the other like/dislike quirks we
>> see frequently.
>> http://gizmodo.com/5911387/is-cilantro-hating-genetic

>
> I think it tastes like soap, but I eat it. I just think some people
> taste it stronger than others. Just like durian - some people taet
> and smell ti stronger than others.
>
> Hardly worth spending billions of dollars on studying and debating.
> If everybody liked the same thing all the time we wouldn't have 300
> different sexual positions and life would be boring.


The odd thing is, I only ever got the soap taste once. It was with some I
had grown and it had gone to seed. If I eat it in a restaurant or buy it at
the store, it tastes fine.