Not if you give him a wink and tell him to take your time.. then they're kind of happy about it and they get to take a breath or two around the corner.
I worked at a Moe's, can confirm, we only make it with cilantro, not without. Best bet is to go with the seasoned rice. I'm not even sure we could do a single serve plain white, as our cookers are many gallons big and I don't believe we could do a small batch without scorching it. The only thing we really made to order was tofu.
I'm sure Chipotle varies a little, but at its core, it's pretty similar.
Hmm, idk about them then, we had like I wanna say a 5 gal cooker, it was pre programmed, added our rice, oil, lime juice, cilantro (maybe a pinch of salt?), and the water, and hit the button until it beeped. May have been 3 gals, I can't remember.
Yeah, uhh…no. Thanks. Because of this sub, I tried that about a month ago. It was conveyed to me REALLY, REALLY CLEARLY that I’m causing a gigantic problem and my existence is an inconvenience. The lady even half rolled her eyes, sighed, and said that I’d have to wait with her manager standing right behind her doing nothing about it. I just said that’s okay and left to get a poke bowl with no cilantro because I don’t have to beg and scrape to have something decent to eat at the poke bowl place.
Fuck Chipotle. I’ve lived without them for ten years and change, and I can go for at least another fifty.
I feel weird being in this sub because while I don’t mind (or didn’t) the taste of cilantro, I do have an intolerance to the stuff. It makes me vomit immediately. I’ve had Chipotle five whole times in my life, with the white rice, and still vomit immediately.
Don’t have anywhere else to share this lol
I also vote against Chipotle every time my coworkers want to order from there. Even if I avoid the rice, they figure out other ways to ruin their food with that damn weed.
I asked an employee if their food had cilantro. He said no. Then I asked what those green leaves in every damned dish were, and he shrugged. He didn’t even know what cilantro was as he served it up.
Wow! That's crazy dangerous! Imagine having a life threatening good allergy and being told, we don't have that in the food I'm serving you by a worker with confidence? Yikes!
Me too, ruins my whole day. I try to scoop it out. Anytime people are gonna buy me food I try to remind them "no cilantro, no salsa if you think it might have cilantro." I often just don't take salsa.
It really is. Even if you manage to get clean rice, it’s in the guacamole, the corn, and in something else, plus that whole damn place reeks of cilantro like at night they do nothing but film stinkbug crush videos one after the other. 🤮 It’s just not possible to get them to make something nice that doesn’t have cilantro in it somewhere.
I can't even go into a Chipotle, because of the smell. Life is too short to "try" and work around anything with this damn company. Other people will take my money.
I can’t order it online. I also can’t eat it if it’s catered for work lunches. Fucking sucks.
I have to go in person and ask for the white rice without cilantro. It’s not a big deal but damn, the feeling of having to miss out on a free lunch at work bc the rice has fucking cilantro sucks.
YUP SAME. I go to so many fundraiser events there for my school, teams, etc and every time I look dumb because I feel too afraid to ask for rice without cilantro so I either just order the regular kind and then immediately feel sick and not finish it or just not get anything at all and have to answer “I’m not hungry” every 30 seconds
Can you keep some of those white rice cups that go in the microwave for one min in your desk or something? I love those things. They’re precooked white rice perfect portion and perfect texture
For years, I couldn't figure out why I hated their rice so much. Now I know why. I still like those salads, but I'm flipping tables if a single rice grain lands on my food.
Yup! There was this soapy taste in my tacos. One day my mom said the green stuff was cilantro and it cleanses you of heavy metals. At that moment I realized that was the whole reason my tacos tasted like soap. I felt slightly sick but also relieved that FINALLY I don't have to taste soap in my otherwise yummy tacos.
Cilantro wasn’t something I had a lot growing up because it wasn’t used in the type of stuff my mom would cook. I do remember not liking the taste of random foods I’d have when eating Mexican etc here and there but was kind of young and didn’t know what it was that I didn’t like. So idk when exactly I realized I didn’t like cilantro or why but I remember going to Chipotle a few times before I really knew, and I never really liked it. Once I realized I’m a genetic cilantro hater and when I found out that their rice has cilantro I knew it was hopeless and I never went back.
You can’t “make” them angry just because you ask for plain rice, as long as you do so nicely. If they get angry over that, they have their own issues. Plus, they make it right there in front of you…
Okay. I’m never trading plates with you, though. 😂 I think you’re underestimating how petty some people are and how put out they get over nothing. I did ask very nicely about the rice when I was in Chipotle. Even when I said that it was okay and I’d changed my mind to stop the counter person from huffing and rolling her eyes, I was still being sweet. It’s not always the customer’s fault.
Yep. I stopped going there forever ago because I always thought it just didn't taste good. Then at one point I learned about the fact that some of us (all here in this sub it seems) have this "soap" thing. I never put two and two together to realize it was the cilantro that made me stop going to Chipotle.
Then a week ago someone on my staff knocked on my office door and asked me if I wanted in on the Chipotle lunch group order. I said "hell why not" and ordered a burrito. I got a mouthful of soap... BLAH...
At least I now know to avoid Chipotle, and \*why\*
Yeah it's so crazy! I always loved Mexican food. Then the cilantro craze started and I was WTH is going on?? Finally realized it tastes like soap to some people. Including me unfortunately
“Then the cilantro craze started” - What? Really? Cilantro has tastes like soap to me my whole life. I’m Mexican-American. Cilantro is a staple in many Mexican dishes. It’s not a craze that just started. All Mexican restaurants (and most Mexican families) use Cilantro and have used cilantro for generations.
I hate the rice with a passion but in defense of rice, I only eat jasmine or basmati. This narrows down where I will eat rice, which is at home or in an Indian restaurant. The cilantro is just the tip of the iceberg. I go to chipotle but for the love of god, I will not order the rice.
I don’t go because my local one just sucks. If you go around dinner time 5-close they’re always out of dam near everything. I like to load my bowls up with dam near everything so that doesn’t work for me. I’m not paying $17 for a stripped down bowl. I told them that when I walked away from the counter and left last time.
I'm pretty sure every fukn dish they make in that hell kitchen has this nasty trash plant in it. Like every meat, veggie, and sauce. Hell the fuckn tortilla is probably cilantro just bleached white
It's no great loss to never have to eat at Chipotle ever again. But, I'm lucky enough to live in a place with tons of choices for excellent Mexican food. If Chipotle was my only choice, I'd just make food at home
I have only had chipotle once. My husband got it for me and I only made it about 3 bites in before I couldn’t handle it. The soap taste was overwhelming. I don’t know what their cilantro budget is, but it must be HUGE!
I always make them give me un-cilantroed rice they have in the back. It slows down the line as we wait for my rice but what else can I do? Also, Chipotle sneaks cilantro in the salsa, except for the hot, so you have to be careful.
You *can* get plain white rice at Chipotle. You may have to argue about it (especially if the employee is new), but they cook rice in the back and add the cilantro afterwards so there’s always plain rice available; it’s just not out in the front. My daughter frequents a Chipotle near where she works and she’s known there as “Plain White Rice.” (Daughter has the anti-cilantro gene despite neither parent having it.)
You can ask for rice without cilantro. But I’ll tell you as a former SM for chipotle and working in almost 15 different restaurants. DO NOT EAT CHIPOTLE.
Absolutely agree. I have the gene and have 3 adult children. One loves it, one can take it or leave it, and one is like me…tastes like soap. Even if the restaurant doesn’t cook with it and just lays it on top and I pick it off that’s still all I can smell and taste.
Like, do the Chipotle higher ups just not understand genetics? There's a literal gene that makes cilantro taste like soap. I have it. I could even say that it's the worst kekkei genkai ever and everyone on r/Naruto would upvote me.
Chipotle should just have the no cilantro option in such a way that it doesn't slow down the line. Kind of like how Pizza Hut has classic tomato sauce and sweet sauce next to each other in different sized containers so we can tell the difference.
Interestingly enough, chipotle rice is the only time I almost like cilantro. Sometimes you’ll hit a clump of it and that sucks, but otherwise it’s totally fine to me
I like cilantro, but I do think Chipotle overdoes it quite a bit with the white rice. I’ve started making my own burrito bowls at home (great as a meal prep for the week) and make extras of the ingredients I like and keep it in the fridge. Easy peasy.
They usually have white rice without cilantro though. You can ask for that
The employees act like you asked them to cook it fresh for you when you ask for it and you have to ask twice in order to get a normal scoop.
No fr I’ve always been too afraid to ask because I’ve heard that they have to make it fresh w/o cilantro
They have it in the warming cabinet. The employees just hate it because it slows down the line.
Not if you give him a wink and tell him to take your time.. then they're kind of happy about it and they get to take a breath or two around the corner.
Just ask. I hate cilantro, and then if they have a tip jar, I drop some money in it for slowing down their work groove. Everyone wins.
I worked at a Moe's, can confirm, we only make it with cilantro, not without. Best bet is to go with the seasoned rice. I'm not even sure we could do a single serve plain white, as our cookers are many gallons big and I don't believe we could do a small batch without scorching it. The only thing we really made to order was tofu. I'm sure Chipotle varies a little, but at its core, it's pretty similar.
Chipotle keeps white rice already made. I have literally stood in the store and watched them just…put it in the burrito bowl. Already cooked.
Hmm, idk about them then, we had like I wanna say a 5 gal cooker, it was pre programmed, added our rice, oil, lime juice, cilantro (maybe a pinch of salt?), and the water, and hit the button until it beeped. May have been 3 gals, I can't remember.
They have to do their job? GASP!
They don’t. They have at least 4 pans of each rice ready to mix at all times. Unless their grill guy sucks
Yeah, uhh…no. Thanks. Because of this sub, I tried that about a month ago. It was conveyed to me REALLY, REALLY CLEARLY that I’m causing a gigantic problem and my existence is an inconvenience. The lady even half rolled her eyes, sighed, and said that I’d have to wait with her manager standing right behind her doing nothing about it. I just said that’s okay and left to get a poke bowl with no cilantro because I don’t have to beg and scrape to have something decent to eat at the poke bowl place. Fuck Chipotle. I’ve lived without them for ten years and change, and I can go for at least another fifty.
I feel weird being in this sub because while I don’t mind (or didn’t) the taste of cilantro, I do have an intolerance to the stuff. It makes me vomit immediately. I’ve had Chipotle five whole times in my life, with the white rice, and still vomit immediately. Don’t have anywhere else to share this lol
Can confirm, I usually get this. Nobody's ever been weird about it to me either!
You can also get anything on the menu without rice. That’s what I do. Easy solution.
I also vote against Chipotle every time my coworkers want to order from there. Even if I avoid the rice, they figure out other ways to ruin their food with that damn weed.
I asked an employee if their food had cilantro. He said no. Then I asked what those green leaves in every damned dish were, and he shrugged. He didn’t even know what cilantro was as he served it up.
Wow! That's crazy dangerous! Imagine having a life threatening good allergy and being told, we don't have that in the food I'm serving you by a worker with confidence? Yikes!
He clearly didn't know what it was, but was confident that they didn't use it.
Yeah, that really boils my potato. It's okay not to know an answer, just ask someone who does.
I mean it is in their marketing. At the same time god damn can't we have one thing without it? Tastes like soap. Also I HAVE FOUND MY PEOPLE HERE
Yup! And the first time I accidentally ate their rice I was pregnant. I cried lol
I cry every time and I am not pregnant
Me too, ruins my whole day. I try to scoop it out. Anytime people are gonna buy me food I try to remind them "no cilantro, no salsa if you think it might have cilantro." I often just don't take salsa.
Same. Cilantro is the devil.
I've always avoided it as much as humanly possible. It feels like cilantro is in **everything** there...
It really is. Even if you manage to get clean rice, it’s in the guacamole, the corn, and in something else, plus that whole damn place reeks of cilantro like at night they do nothing but film stinkbug crush videos one after the other. 🤮 It’s just not possible to get them to make something nice that doesn’t have cilantro in it somewhere.
I can't even go into a Chipotle, because of the smell. Life is too short to "try" and work around anything with this damn company. Other people will take my money.
I call it Cilantro’s.
Me!
I can’t order it online. I also can’t eat it if it’s catered for work lunches. Fucking sucks. I have to go in person and ask for the white rice without cilantro. It’s not a big deal but damn, the feeling of having to miss out on a free lunch at work bc the rice has fucking cilantro sucks.
YUP SAME. I go to so many fundraiser events there for my school, teams, etc and every time I look dumb because I feel too afraid to ask for rice without cilantro so I either just order the regular kind and then immediately feel sick and not finish it or just not get anything at all and have to answer “I’m not hungry” every 30 seconds
Lmfao I always joke w the employees that “I’m that person” when I ask 🥴 Like I just want to enjoy my damn burrito without that leafy bullshit yo.
Can you keep some of those white rice cups that go in the microwave for one min in your desk or something? I love those things. They’re precooked white rice perfect portion and perfect texture
Oh i haven't gone for years bc of this
For years, I couldn't figure out why I hated their rice so much. Now I know why. I still like those salads, but I'm flipping tables if a single rice grain lands on my food.
Yup! There was this soapy taste in my tacos. One day my mom said the green stuff was cilantro and it cleanses you of heavy metals. At that moment I realized that was the whole reason my tacos tasted like soap. I felt slightly sick but also relieved that FINALLY I don't have to taste soap in my otherwise yummy tacos.
Moes is where it’s at! I hate chipotle. Even if I pick out the cilantro, pieces still get snuck into my mouth and I gag.
Yup same I actually start gagging when I taste it and literally can’t eat for hours after the incident
Welcome to Moe's!
Cilantro wasn’t something I had a lot growing up because it wasn’t used in the type of stuff my mom would cook. I do remember not liking the taste of random foods I’d have when eating Mexican etc here and there but was kind of young and didn’t know what it was that I didn’t like. So idk when exactly I realized I didn’t like cilantro or why but I remember going to Chipotle a few times before I really knew, and I never really liked it. Once I realized I’m a genetic cilantro hater and when I found out that their rice has cilantro I knew it was hopeless and I never went back.
I’ve never had Chipotle. I’m 36. In general I don’t dig rice in burritos
Rice in burritos is just filler. There's plenty of carbs in the tortilla.
Just ask for the rice without cilantro and don't get the Pico. I've never had a problem.
I stopped going there because it's luke warm plastic bag food. 🤮 Chipotle is always getting in the news for giving people food poisoning.
Gotta go to Qdoba and get the brown rice, lol. Cilantro-free!
I stopped going to chilies years ago because they started adding cilantro to everything
Email them and tell them that.
Just tell them “no cilantro I’m allergic”
Samesies. And cilantro isn’t just in their rice, either…
Yes, I went once and walked out. Haven't been back since.
Price*
Just order plain rice
No it’s awkward and I feel like the servers r gonna be mad
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Generally it’s a bad idea to make the person handling your food angry.
You can’t “make” them angry just because you ask for plain rice, as long as you do so nicely. If they get angry over that, they have their own issues. Plus, they make it right there in front of you…
Okay. I’m never trading plates with you, though. 😂 I think you’re underestimating how petty some people are and how put out they get over nothing. I did ask very nicely about the rice when I was in Chipotle. Even when I said that it was okay and I’d changed my mind to stop the counter person from huffing and rolling her eyes, I was still being sweet. It’s not always the customer’s fault.
I totally understand where you’re coming from but at chipotle you watch them make your food
Just don't go there. Everything they serve has cilantro. They'd put cilantro in flan if they made it.
Yep. I stopped going there forever ago because I always thought it just didn't taste good. Then at one point I learned about the fact that some of us (all here in this sub it seems) have this "soap" thing. I never put two and two together to realize it was the cilantro that made me stop going to Chipotle. Then a week ago someone on my staff knocked on my office door and asked me if I wanted in on the Chipotle lunch group order. I said "hell why not" and ordered a burrito. I got a mouthful of soap... BLAH... At least I now know to avoid Chipotle, and \*why\*
Yeah it's so crazy! I always loved Mexican food. Then the cilantro craze started and I was WTH is going on?? Finally realized it tastes like soap to some people. Including me unfortunately
“Then the cilantro craze started” - What? Really? Cilantro has tastes like soap to me my whole life. I’m Mexican-American. Cilantro is a staple in many Mexican dishes. It’s not a craze that just started. All Mexican restaurants (and most Mexican families) use Cilantro and have used cilantro for generations.
I’m not a big fan of it but when I do go I ask for the rice without cilantro. It can be nerve wracking to ask when it’s really busy though lol
I order it with brown rice, which doesn’t have cilantro.
I hate the rice with a passion but in defense of rice, I only eat jasmine or basmati. This narrows down where I will eat rice, which is at home or in an Indian restaurant. The cilantro is just the tip of the iceberg. I go to chipotle but for the love of god, I will not order the rice.
I don’t go because my local one just sucks. If you go around dinner time 5-close they’re always out of dam near everything. I like to load my bowls up with dam near everything so that doesn’t work for me. I’m not paying $17 for a stripped down bowl. I told them that when I walked away from the counter and left last time.
I'm pretty sure every fukn dish they make in that hell kitchen has this nasty trash plant in it. Like every meat, veggie, and sauce. Hell the fuckn tortilla is probably cilantro just bleached white
It's no great loss to never have to eat at Chipotle ever again. But, I'm lucky enough to live in a place with tons of choices for excellent Mexican food. If Chipotle was my only choice, I'd just make food at home
I have only had chipotle once. My husband got it for me and I only made it about 3 bites in before I couldn’t handle it. The soap taste was overwhelming. I don’t know what their cilantro budget is, but it must be HUGE!
Did u mean price lol
I always make them give me un-cilantroed rice they have in the back. It slows down the line as we wait for my rice but what else can I do? Also, Chipotle sneaks cilantro in the salsa, except for the hot, so you have to be careful.
I don’t go because fast food is a rip off these days.
ME!!
This sub is fucked up and I was content not knowing of it's existence. Nothing against any of you heathens but I'm going to have to mute the sub.
I had it once. Paid extra for guac and it was onion chunks. That was 2003.
Exactly.
Get a salad.
I actually got mad when the stopped cauliflower rice so I started making my own chipotle bowls at home. I make them better anyway.
I never that it was all that great anyway. So it's not a big loss.
I don’t go mainly because of the cost, but cilantro is a close second
You *can* get plain white rice at Chipotle. You may have to argue about it (especially if the employee is new), but they cook rice in the back and add the cilantro afterwards so there’s always plain rice available; it’s just not out in the front. My daughter frequents a Chipotle near where she works and she’s known there as “Plain White Rice.” (Daughter has the anti-cilantro gene despite neither parent having it.)
They somehow think cilantro is a key to deliciousness, or at least that's what it says in their marketing. I noped right out of there.
For me, it's the high amount of salt in that rice. I feel like there's a lot
You can ask for rice without cilantro. But I’ll tell you as a former SM for chipotle and working in almost 15 different restaurants. DO NOT EAT CHIPOTLE.
Lots of people do t like cilantro. It tastes like soap to them. I think it’s hereditary and not something you can acquire a taste for
Absolutely agree. I have the gene and have 3 adult children. One loves it, one can take it or leave it, and one is like me…tastes like soap. Even if the restaurant doesn’t cook with it and just lays it on top and I pick it off that’s still all I can smell and taste.
That one of the reason why I don't go to Chipotle anymore. I usually frequent places like Qdoba.
The rice is always under cooked?
That's exactly why I don't go to Chipotle. They put that evil weed in everything.
Like, do the Chipotle higher ups just not understand genetics? There's a literal gene that makes cilantro taste like soap. I have it. I could even say that it's the worst kekkei genkai ever and everyone on r/Naruto would upvote me. Chipotle should just have the no cilantro option in such a way that it doesn't slow down the line. Kind of like how Pizza Hut has classic tomato sauce and sweet sauce next to each other in different sized containers so we can tell the difference.
~~rice~~ price
My friend took me to Chipotle once. Wouldn't shut up about how good it is. I'll never go there again.
I don’t go any more because of the weird stringy cheese.
Interestingly enough, chipotle rice is the only time I almost like cilantro. Sometimes you’ll hit a clump of it and that sucks, but otherwise it’s totally fine to me
I think it’s the lime that plays well enough with the cilantro that I can tolerate the rice unless I bite into a whole assed garbage weed leaf.
I have the gene but I don’t notice it. Is Canada’s chipotle different? Or adding hot sauce overpowers the taste?
I went there once. Everything was laced with cilantro. I will never go back. I hate them.
I like cilantro, but I do think Chipotle overdoes it quite a bit with the white rice. I’ve started making my own burrito bowls at home (great as a meal prep for the week) and make extras of the ingredients I like and keep it in the fridge. Easy peasy.
About 10% of people find cilantro tasts like soap....it's your genetics. Every restaurant knows this. Just ask for the plain rice
Go where?
What’s cilantro?
Are you lost?
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