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I've never gotten a soapy taste from it either, but I definitely have the gene that makes it taste horrid.
For me, the taste of cilantro is the exact same profile as the smell of stink bugs. So... Anything with even a tiny bit of cilantro in it tastes like it's filled with ground up beetles.
But not soap. Tbh I think soap would be an improvement.
...I'm super jealous of folks who don't have the gene - what they describe it tasting like sounds fucking amazing.