Pickles?

Argggh! DILL! I recognized it immediately (green kryptonite!) ! It's like cilantro for me, but cilantro is 10x worse. I can tolerate dill in moderation. Like a few sliced dill pickles on a burger. But a dill pickle by itself, not for me. Now cilantro, to me it just tastes like soap. Dill is better than that to my taste buds. Yet I like cilantro seeds (coriander). Strange isn't it? But they're different flavors.

When I seeded my garden in May, I planted at least 2 full rows of cucumbers. Then the flood. While my plot was never under water, 11" of water tends to kill things. But before I knew that only 4 cucumber plants survived, I planted a short row of dill, on the idea that I would be doing some pickles. I dont eat pickles. Wretched things. But I love the smell of fresh dill in the garden, and I dont mind canning pickles either.

I just cant imagine working in a garden without the pungent smell of tomatoes and dill wafting in the air, even though I eat neither.

The container of dill I posted, I put in the mud room of the garage where the freezers are. It can finish drying out there. When I come out for my morning walk today, my whole garage smelled of dill.

Argggh! DILL! I recognized it immediately (green kryptonite!) ! It's like cilantro for me, but cilantro is 10x worse. I can tolerate dill in moderation. Like a few sliced dill pickles on a burger. But a dill pickle by itself, not for me. Now cilantro, to me it just tastes like soap. Dill is better than that to my taste buds. Yet I like cilantro seeds (coriander).  Strange isn't it? But they're different flavors.

Brian, its a genetic trait whether you can tolerate cilantro or not - the soap taste. I don't know about the dill but it seems you're a cilantro mutant or variant if you prefer

:-) I'm just happy that I don't live in a place where it's used on 'everything". I don't think I'll ever visit India, the Yucatan, or most of the orient because of it.

Edit: You know, thinking about the countries that use cilantro liberally and it being genetic... It sorta, makes one believe in natural selection. The folks who couldn't stand the stuff died off from starvation leaving those with the cilantro genes to breed more cilantro lovers.

:-) I'm just happy that I don't live in a place where it's used on 'everything". I don't think I'll ever visit India, the Yucatan, or most of the orient because of it.

Edit: You know, thinking about the countries that use cilantro liberally and it being genetic... It sorta, makes one believe in natural selection. The folks who couldn't stand the stuff died off from starvation leaving those with the cilantro genes to breed more cilantro lovers.

I personally am a big cilantro fan. I'm sorry you weren't blessed with the cilantro tolerant gene!

Same here. I love cilantro and dill!

I don't actually dislike cilantro if it's kept in check. But most times it's used with a far too heavy hand. It's OK if the chef adding it knows how strong it is but most don't. Maybe 2 levels to choose from on the menu for a solution, sensitive to cilantro (used in micro amounts at best) and cilantro lovers. It has gotten to the point that the wife and I simply will NOT order anything containing cilantro; for the wife, the dish has a death sentence if she even detects it, there have simply been too many times where the use of it was far too liberal for us. Most times we won't even return to the restaurant if they use it rather than take the chance that they can back it off. Thankfully in Maine most folks can't stand it and restaurants here, if they want customers, won't use it. Except for the Indian restaurants that are always looking for new meat and have plenty of available seats. I don't think they got the memo about Maineiacs and cilantro (yet).

There's a Mexican restaurant that we go to and they have explicitly told us that none of their dishes have it and it's not even in the building. It's safe for us to eat there.

OK, I was curious enough to investigate further...

I love the text composing this link.
http://reasoniamhere.com/2013/09/24/why-...ny-better/

And to maybe muddy the water... I was hoping it would explain why I love the flavor of the seed and despise the taste of the herb as added by the folks who just can't taste what I do.
https://delishably.com/spices-seasonings...r-cilantro
I got no satisfaction from the link.

OK, so in my admittedly search of the internet that lacked great depth I couldn't find any reason why I love the seed yet hate the herb. I'll need to accept that the the seeds don't contain the aldehydes that the herb does and I'm genetically predisposed to be sensitive to it and 90% of the population just can't taste it the way I do. Thank GOD I live in Maine where the majority of the general population is of the 10% !

Interesting, how does soap taste to you?

Like soap. I tasted it a lot when I was a child. I had a "filthy" mouth then and the soap never did clean it up :-). But I'm ex-military too and that didn't help either.