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This Facebook Group Is Dedicated To Coriander (Cilantro) Haters And Here Are The 30 Funniest Images
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Do you hate coriander? I know I do. Here's what I didn't know: that I'm far from the only one. If you're like me, then you might be surprised to learn that there's a whole online community of people whose sole purpose in life is to express their distaste for the icky green herb.
The Facebook group called I Hate Coriander is dedicated to convincing others to start hating coriander and acts as a support platform for all those wronged by its nefarious existence. The group's profile picture clearly shows its members' feelings with the phrase "Coriander Sucks" proudly emblazoned on a black background.
Why all the hate for coriander, though? Surely, this herb did nothing wrong and must be innocent in all of this? Wrong. Some people hate the taste. Others hate the smell. Still, others avert their eyes anytime coriander enters their field of view.
However, the majority of coriander haters agree that it's the combination of all three - the taste, the smell, the sight - that makes coriander unbearable and a blight on our existence in this otherwise beautiful and wonderful world. The Facebook group is full of photos of people showing the middle finger to coriander in shops, so scroll down below to check the best pictures out and don't forget to comment and vote for your favorites!
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I have the gene that makes it taste as though food containing coriander/cilantro was seasoned with Dawn Dish soap. :( It is really sad because so many dishes sound like they would be amazing but they have coriander and I don't like eating soap.
WOW! I thought everyone liked coriander!!! What's not to like... Why don't you just hate celery instead, now that is horrible!
The I Hate Coriander fan club isn't too tolerant of coriander lovers, however. One Facebook user posted a photo of coriander and commented that she "loves the stuff". The group's members proceeded to call her a "sicko", started talking about how coriander "tastes like soap" and "deserves to be extinct". Meanwhile, the I Hate Coriander official account wished the coriander lover "an absolutely horrible weekend".
The coriander-hating Facebook group is chock-full of absolutely hilarious memes. For example, there are people joking how stirring olive oil into coriander makes it easier to throw it out into the bin. Others describe anxiety as the coriander in the sandwich of life. Obviously, these aren't compliments anyone or anything would be happy to receive.
If you feel that memes aren't going far enough to show off your hatred for the vile herb that is coriander, consider a more permanent way to display your beliefs. There's undeniable photographic evidence that there's at least one person on planet Earth with a tattoo of coriander encircled by the words "I Hate Coriander". Now, that's what I call dedication.
Now you'll have coriander with you wherever you go, for the rest of your life. Mwahahahaha! - The Secret Coriander Society.
I lol'd at this one. Can you imagine they go live with the story because it's a "slow news day"?
When you order a curry (coriander free of course) and it turns up, your smelling the amazing food your about to tuck into faster than you can say Korma, you excitedly tear off the leaky paper top to reveal your banquet......covered in Crappy coriander.... no matter how much you scrape it off, it’s invaded your food. Like a plague.
well they did something good to the anti-gay marriage ad. I still remember that year. Those ads popped up all over tv, ruining Australian tv for a while.
Dried coriander seeds are what makes Biltong ( or Jerky ) the God-sent side to have with beer ! Yum ! .... The leaves , however , can bite me !
*raises hand* I know I'm weird, but not because of coriander. It's just cos I'm weird. So,,,
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I like coriander. It has pretty specific taste, yes, but I find it pretty refreshing. And, since I love Mexican food, it suits to many dishes I like. It's like pineapple on pizza - some people like it, some don't, it's all about personal preferences. There is no reason to shame coriander lovers.
Well, as the article mentions, some people have a gene coding for making coriander taste like soap. "Taste" as a concept is more of a preference based on past experiences. It's impossible to accurately tell what someone experiences when tasting something. But you can tell (for instance) that pineapple has certain flavors we recognize in other foods. So you could say it tastes sweet and sour and has a specific smell. But someone with the gene will experience (without a doubt) the smell and taste of soap in stead of describing coriander as citrussy or other smells/flavors. So it's not just not liking it, it is as if someone asked you to add soap shavings through your food. I know. I thorougly hate it :)
It's such a relief to know why I find it disgusting!
I'm curious if being in this weird little 10% club has also contributed to my hatred for caraway and fennel. I've had people try and tell me there's no taste at all, but it's *overwhelming* for me. I can't even smell it much less attempt to eat it. Any other cilantro-haters have this same aversion?
I like coriander but when I first read about that I kinda could imagine that soapy taste next time I had it
It taste for my like lead for me
There's nothing about personal reference to it here, it simply makes most of us gag and feel like vomiting whther we like the taste or not.
I don't care how much the coriander lobby is paying you to shill for their garbage, it's not worth your soul. Get out while you still can and spread the truth!
Yeah I agree. People were insulting others who like coriander but like...it's the taste of an herb...there's so reason to get so worked up about it...?
It's a joke.
Yes, Enuya! I also do not see the reasons for shaming people over an herb. It's not as if anyone is MAKING people eat coriander. I understand if %10 of people have a genetic aversion, but there are literally thousands of food sensitivities, or worse, allergies. Why are coriander haters so special that everyone else deserves to be insulted?
aren'y you proper ridicilous now, ever heard of humour, sarcasm, dark humour? FFS, we just don't get it how people can enjoy it and make fun of that fact. There's nothing personal or super offending here. Get over your politically correct ass and get a life.
so, in your words, saying I don't like liver and it's disgusting is SHAMING PEOPLE WHO LIKE IT? well, that's an error in logic that is hard to grasp.
I think arugula is probably the same way - love it or hate it, no middle ground. I like them both bc they go with so many different cuisines.
It took me some time to get used to arugula (its scent was pretty annoying to me) but it was worth it. It still isn't my favourite component but now I can eat many more good dishes. :)
I think arugula is one of the most disgusting things I've ever tasted, along with olives. I don't recall if I've ever tasted coriander, probably have, since I like Mexican. Parsley doesn't taste like anything to me.
Donate them to these two adorable weirdos, they eat coriander like its chocolate --> IMG_201906...58be53.jpg
Awwww! Thanks for the adorable pic!
They're going to grow up to look like this because they're eating poisonous, mutant herbs. RABBIT-5d0...5b5488.jpg
my rabbit likes it, but I found buying it left the smell on my hands when serving it to him (even after washing) and I couldn't stand it! no more for him! He gets quite the variety of salad daily tho.
Funny! One of my bunnies hated it; but loved parsley.
So cute! My rabbits and I also love coriander! I think it's their favorite.
I like coriander, I feel sorry for those people who taste only soap when they eat it.
I've been told by fellow gardeners that, apparently, coriander is a challenging herb to grow in the garden. I found out that I'm very good at growing it, the same summer that I found out it's super disgusting and I never want to eat that ever again.
Little known fact: coriander is so challenging to grow because the farmers have to get the balance of fertilizer and dish soap just right.
Ha!
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I was confused until I figured out coriander is the same thing as cilantro
Cilantro is more specifically the leaf; the seed is used as a spice.
I know the spice as cilantro spice too though
Depends where you are from. In some places it's the opposite.
Wow, I feel a little dumb right now. I always thought that coriander just tasted like soap and the rest of the world actually liked it.
My husband LOVES cilantro. He never understood why I didn't like it. I told him it tastes like the inside of an old lady's purse where her old lady perfume leaked out all over everything. He insisted that's not what it tastes like. We've argued about it for years. I'm so glad science has finally explained that I'm not crazy (at least not about this).
you are the 10%! :)
You aren't the only one I loved guac salad and always thought some restaurants just didn't rinse their dishes. Hhaha
Don't feel dumb. People eat/drink some really odd stuff. People even drink wine when it's so incredibly bitter.
I absolutely love coriander and could eat it every day... However I HATE celery - so I can still relate to all that "ruins the world" stuff. I cannot understand why anyone would eat something as disgusting as celery? So I believe it the same with cilantro to some :).
There are a few other things I hate but could eat it if it was cooked right or I was absolutely starving. But cilantro could NEVER be covered up!
And that is why this is so interesting - to me it tastes sooooo delicious! I could - and some times do - eat it on its own, fresh, just munch on the leaves... So incredibly yummy. I know what soap tastes like and that is not it :D.
I love the smell of coriander and as an Indian, we generally sprinkle it on every curry, can't beat that flavor.
It really is a genetic thing though
i feel slightly sad at the "if you like coriander u suck" things... *slowly curls into a ball*
Any spinach haters here? 😁
Nope i love me some spinach salad
I hate that stuff! ordered tacos the other day and they were riddled with it! ugh!!!!! noooooooooooo!
My name as well
Hello fellow haley
Th first time I said I hated cilantro because it tasted like soap, the whole group laughed at me and told me I was nuts. NOW I have been vindicated. They have also discovered there is a gene that causes beets and mushrooms to taste like dirt! I always thought so!
Mushrooms taste like rubber dirt to me.
I'll stick to spinach, and collard greens, and yes, even dandelion greens. Redneck and love it.
I saw a documentary once explain how when people don't like the way something tastes it's because they don't possess the taste buds for it, so all they taste is bitter, soapy, bland, etc. So I guess all those people you know who claim they hate vegetables and are just "meat and potatoes" type people, now you know they don't have the taste buds to taste the real flavors present in all the foods they hate. This goes for coriander haters as well. I love cilantro, it is an amazing herb. So glad I've got the taste buds for it!
This bud’s for you.
For twenty years I hated the taste of Cilantro. I just flat out refused to eat Mexican food because of it. It tasted like soap. Then, ten years ago, I was introduced to Pho. It brought an entirely different flavor profile to it. Now, I can't imagine not eating it. Sometimes it just needs a new perspective to be appreciated. Like just about everything else in life :)
Mmmmmmm.....PHO!!! :-))))))
This is interesting, I also changed my mind about cilantro in Hanoi, where I had my first pho! Now I love it!
What is pho?
I used to do demos in wally world and sometimes would have to use fresh cilantro, made me gag to cut it and I had to cut it away from the public. I finally quit putting it in the recipes and no one missed it. I would dry heave chopping it.
The smell makes me gag too. It has gotten worse over the years. When I was younger, I just didn't like the smell. Now, I get sick when I smell it.
I still eat it. I guess I... like soap?
No. It doesn't taste like soap to y ou. If it did you wouldn't like it.
I'm indifferent about coriander, but I feel a strong hatred for turnips with the forces of 1000 suns. So this thread is pretty relatable in some aspect.
I'll see your turnips and raise you green bell peppers.
Turnips are nasty. So are Brussel's sprouts.
Now that it's the "in" thing you can't escape it. I've asked restaurants to hold it from my dish and been told it's already been mixed in. I used to occasionally get my mouth washed out with soap, same thing. ( I was framed by the way. Every time.)
There's a website too
I had no idea a herb could generate such extreme responses. Well, okay, not counting THAT herb.
My mom used to make me suck on a bar of soap when i lied. It tastes nothing like soap to me
Ive never had it. Do people often eat it in the u.s.a?
Wait cilantro is fine
It's actually fascinating that it IS actually a receptor gene that makes it so foul for 10%. Can you imagine the poor people in countries where it is used as a major herb in the cuisine ? Nothing would ever taste good, and as a child you wouldn't be able to identify what tasted so yucky. There are some items that I believe you have to develop the tastebuds to enjoy. I still dislike olives intensely, but I did develop the taste for many vegetables that I disliked as a child...especially beets, which I thought tasted like dirt when I was a kid. But I doubt if you have a specific gene that affects your tastebud you will ever develop the taste for cilantro (just that it is a gene that affects whether you can smell the strong scent of your urine after eating asparagus...everyone is affected, but only a percentage of the population has the olfactory ability to smell it)
I ate coriander 😀
10% of the population hates cilantro, but yeah, let’s rip on the other 90. 🙄
Lighten up, it's a joke.
Well the other 90% are a bunch of barking lunatics so yeah, it's open season on them.
We call it cilantro in the states and I LOVE it!
Beyond tedious. I love it, but not in place of parsley. My wonderful mother-in-law was visiting from NYC and was making us a Cuba dish called Ropa Vieja, my favorite. She'd gone marketing that morning. I took a look at the parsley, tasted it, and said, Mom, that's parsley. She took a taste of the Ropa Vieja and did a classic spit take. The cilantro ruined it. What's funny is that about 10 years before, in about 1979, we'd all had it in a salad when they visited us from back east, and sent it back because it tasted.soapy. Now I wonder why I like it, since it does taste somewhat soapy to me.
My mom hates it and swears a lot. She has totally said " it fucking sucks" haha.
The leafy stalks are Cilantro. Its the seeds that are coriander, and they don’t taste like cilantro.
In England the whole thing is called coriander, the leaves and the seeds and the ground-up spices made from it. Was very confusing when I moved to the US and had never heard of cilantro.
You guys are weird. And your " windscreens" lol. Jk.
Yup, got the gene...detest the green leafy cilantro. I do, however, like the ground seeds (coriander here) - it's just the green leafy herb (cilantro to us) that tastes like bitter soap to me.
Okay but you simply can't banh mi or pho without corriander.
Discovered that it's only dried coriander that spoils things for me, I can stand a little of the fresh stuff. My friend is the other way round. Cumin and whatever goes into "curry powder" makes me gag
I love cilantro but I think it smells like gasoline when you’re cutting it 🤪
really? such big fuss about koriander? is the hate about it "america-ish"? in europe nobody complains....
In America it's cilantro.
I just hate lavender ╮(╯▽╰)╭ lavender soap, lavender room spray,etc... if you give me a lavender cake, or lavender tea, no thanks! ┌( ಠ‿ಠ)┘ . Coriander is fine with me ~(‾▿‾~)
All I can say is 'Don't come to my house!' I have parsley growing in the front yard, coriander in the backyard and a ton of each dried and stored in canning jars. Nearly everything we cook has one or both in it. The one thing you won't find in or around my house is garlic. I have a severe sensitivity, bordering on allergy, to it...and it's not pretty when I accidentally get hold of some!!
reminds me of the waves of avocado hate...
I'm allergic to avocado. The reaction isn't too bad. I actually like the taste. I eat it occasionally, and then I regret it.
Lol, mango for me : I never notice it, until it's too late (they even put it in some vegetable smoothies!)
I’ve pretty much lost my sense of smell from years of using nasal spray due to allergies. Sadly, I can still smell cilantro. Yuck.
Sorry about your loss of smell, but that made me laugh. Cilantro is so nasty you can still smell it. lol.
I don't know what coriander tastes like, but I hate parsley from my guts and I find everything parsleyish looking awful, so I assume this wouldn't be tasty either.
Maybe. But my husband hates parsley, but loves cilantro/coriander. They are two totally different flavors.
Apparently it's like catnip is for felines. They have to have the gene that makes them dig it.
I told my neighbor that for his birthday I would grow coriander in my garden for him. I couldn't even WEED around it because the smell made me gag! It is AWFUL! One tiny speck of it in a meal ruins the whole meal!
The hatred for coriander is so real lol. I honestly like it, but everyone has a different palate.
OMG where is this group? I have to join it
My sister is allergic to it.
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I don't think I have that gene, but I still don't like it. It does kind of taste citrusy and fresh, but in the worst possible way.
Poor coriander... I like it in guacamole
I don't know if I dislike it or not. I guess not since I don't recall eating a soap flavored herb. I don't care for lemongrass though. Too pungent for me.
I don’t know if I like it or not either. I can’t think of or when I have even tried coriander.
I used to hate it too, but after a while i got used to it and now i actually like it. I used to buy 3 packs of hummus all the time and one of the flavours happened to be coriander. I didn't want to throw it away, so I ate it with some cucumber sticks. That made it taste bearable, and after a while, it actually tasted quite nice to me.
I had to look it up. Once I realized it is what we call cilantro over here, I immediately agreed with this post 100%
To all my friends and relatives who looked at me as a weirdo for years for hating coriander - f*** u!
I.... I feel pity for a plant... um...
It's fucking cilantro, dammit.
In Australia and many other countries the whole plant is called coriander and the seeds are coriander seeds.
Yay! There are more of us! #corianderisana$$hole
What
It doesn't taste like soap. It's like rotting meat. Utterly disgusting.
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People hate on coriander because they have tasted food prepared by cooks who don't know how to use coriander in a dish
No it tastes soapy and gross no matter what it's in.
To YOU. Not to the 90% who dont have the "bad taste" gene.....
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I love coriander. I put it in salsas stews use it as toppings for everything. I put it in my Guac. Everyone who hasn't ever tried it and tries mine normally ends up liking it. Are ya'll washing this shit? Cause if you're not then you probably eating dirt. lol
It doesn't taste like dirt though, it tastes like soap.
Some people are never going to like it if it tastes like soap to them and it's down to genetics. Could never understand why anyone would tough the stuff...
It tastes like soap to some. Has nothing to do with preparation. Your food is probably delicious though!
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I agree with Enuya. Cilantro (what we call coriander in southern California, because of its wide use in Mexican cuisine) has a distinctive flavor that people either like or don't like. Per doctor of natural medicine and clinical nutritionist Dr. Josh Axe, cilantro has 12 major health benefits: https://draxe.com/cilantro-benefits/ If you are dining in a Mexican, Indian, or other restaurant where cilantro may be incorporated into a dish, just tell the server or chef "HOLD THE CILANTRO." Not only is there no reason to shame coriander / cilantro lovers, it's stupid to feel superior to others because you hate a food that they like. It’s even more stupid to waste time creating ridiculous, un-funny memes on the subject. As the French saying goes, "À chacon son goût" (There's no accounting for taste).
You're taking this waaay to seriously.
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I hate that english speaking people in the US refuse to use the english name for the plant...Coriander. Instead they insist on calling it by the spanish name Cilantro. If they're spanish speaking fine, but english speakers use the right word! Or pretentious people that call it Chinese Parsley.... it's all the same plant.
I grew up knowing it as cilantro...I didn't even know that coriander and cilantro were the same thing until I was older...I really don't think that's pretentious it's just regional lingo.
Same here. I grew up in the southern US. EVERYONE here calls the plant "cilantro" and the seeds "coriander". I appreciate the distinction.
I like coriander. It has pretty specific taste, yes, but I find it pretty refreshing. And, since I love Mexican food, it suits to many dishes I like. It's like pineapple on pizza - some people like it, some don't, it's all about personal preferences. There is no reason to shame coriander lovers.
Well, as the article mentions, some people have a gene coding for making coriander taste like soap. "Taste" as a concept is more of a preference based on past experiences. It's impossible to accurately tell what someone experiences when tasting something. But you can tell (for instance) that pineapple has certain flavors we recognize in other foods. So you could say it tastes sweet and sour and has a specific smell. But someone with the gene will experience (without a doubt) the smell and taste of soap in stead of describing coriander as citrussy or other smells/flavors. So it's not just not liking it, it is as if someone asked you to add soap shavings through your food. I know. I thorougly hate it :)
It's such a relief to know why I find it disgusting!
I'm curious if being in this weird little 10% club has also contributed to my hatred for caraway and fennel. I've had people try and tell me there's no taste at all, but it's *overwhelming* for me. I can't even smell it much less attempt to eat it. Any other cilantro-haters have this same aversion?
I like coriander but when I first read about that I kinda could imagine that soapy taste next time I had it
It taste for my like lead for me
There's nothing about personal reference to it here, it simply makes most of us gag and feel like vomiting whther we like the taste or not.
I don't care how much the coriander lobby is paying you to shill for their garbage, it's not worth your soul. Get out while you still can and spread the truth!
Yeah I agree. People were insulting others who like coriander but like...it's the taste of an herb...there's so reason to get so worked up about it...?
It's a joke.
Yes, Enuya! I also do not see the reasons for shaming people over an herb. It's not as if anyone is MAKING people eat coriander. I understand if %10 of people have a genetic aversion, but there are literally thousands of food sensitivities, or worse, allergies. Why are coriander haters so special that everyone else deserves to be insulted?
aren'y you proper ridicilous now, ever heard of humour, sarcasm, dark humour? FFS, we just don't get it how people can enjoy it and make fun of that fact. There's nothing personal or super offending here. Get over your politically correct ass and get a life.
so, in your words, saying I don't like liver and it's disgusting is SHAMING PEOPLE WHO LIKE IT? well, that's an error in logic that is hard to grasp.
I think arugula is probably the same way - love it or hate it, no middle ground. I like them both bc they go with so many different cuisines.
It took me some time to get used to arugula (its scent was pretty annoying to me) but it was worth it. It still isn't my favourite component but now I can eat many more good dishes. :)
I think arugula is one of the most disgusting things I've ever tasted, along with olives. I don't recall if I've ever tasted coriander, probably have, since I like Mexican. Parsley doesn't taste like anything to me.
Donate them to these two adorable weirdos, they eat coriander like its chocolate --> IMG_201906...58be53.jpg
Awwww! Thanks for the adorable pic!
They're going to grow up to look like this because they're eating poisonous, mutant herbs. RABBIT-5d0...5b5488.jpg
my rabbit likes it, but I found buying it left the smell on my hands when serving it to him (even after washing) and I couldn't stand it! no more for him! He gets quite the variety of salad daily tho.
Funny! One of my bunnies hated it; but loved parsley.
So cute! My rabbits and I also love coriander! I think it's their favorite.
I like coriander, I feel sorry for those people who taste only soap when they eat it.
I've been told by fellow gardeners that, apparently, coriander is a challenging herb to grow in the garden. I found out that I'm very good at growing it, the same summer that I found out it's super disgusting and I never want to eat that ever again.
Little known fact: coriander is so challenging to grow because the farmers have to get the balance of fertilizer and dish soap just right.
Ha!
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I was confused until I figured out coriander is the same thing as cilantro
Cilantro is more specifically the leaf; the seed is used as a spice.
I know the spice as cilantro spice too though
Depends where you are from. In some places it's the opposite.
Wow, I feel a little dumb right now. I always thought that coriander just tasted like soap and the rest of the world actually liked it.
My husband LOVES cilantro. He never understood why I didn't like it. I told him it tastes like the inside of an old lady's purse where her old lady perfume leaked out all over everything. He insisted that's not what it tastes like. We've argued about it for years. I'm so glad science has finally explained that I'm not crazy (at least not about this).
you are the 10%! :)
You aren't the only one I loved guac salad and always thought some restaurants just didn't rinse their dishes. Hhaha
Don't feel dumb. People eat/drink some really odd stuff. People even drink wine when it's so incredibly bitter.
I absolutely love coriander and could eat it every day... However I HATE celery - so I can still relate to all that "ruins the world" stuff. I cannot understand why anyone would eat something as disgusting as celery? So I believe it the same with cilantro to some :).
There are a few other things I hate but could eat it if it was cooked right or I was absolutely starving. But cilantro could NEVER be covered up!
And that is why this is so interesting - to me it tastes sooooo delicious! I could - and some times do - eat it on its own, fresh, just munch on the leaves... So incredibly yummy. I know what soap tastes like and that is not it :D.
I love the smell of coriander and as an Indian, we generally sprinkle it on every curry, can't beat that flavor.
It really is a genetic thing though
i feel slightly sad at the "if you like coriander u suck" things... *slowly curls into a ball*
Any spinach haters here? 😁
Nope i love me some spinach salad
I hate that stuff! ordered tacos the other day and they were riddled with it! ugh!!!!! noooooooooooo!