Cilantro is an herb that keeps interfering with my enjoyment of food. I don’t want it raw in my salads, in curries or pho, in my salsa, guacamole, or sprinkled on anything. It’s gross and tastes like soap. Even if you can tolerate it (I don’t believe anyone genuinely likes it, they’re just being polite or sucking up to Onion and other complementary flavors) it has been responsible for at least 20 food borne illness outbreaks in the US in the last two decades. It doesn’t matter if your cilantro comes from New York City or Chicago, it’s not good for you.
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There are plenty of other, less offensive, ways to season your food.
I am genetically predisposed to hate cilantro. I also hate celery and dill. Don’t @me with your incorrect take that any of those three are good. They are garbage herbs/veggie. #fuckherbs
Sometimes it call calls itself Mexican or Chinese parsley. And sneaks in as coriander. Cilantro cannot be trusted!
I hate it.
It tastes like green.
(I love celery to eat; do NOT like dill, unless it’s pickles.)
Dill is nasty.
You are my people,,,
It truly is, and some people put in ev-ver-ry-thing…like it’s benign.
Fuck you guys. Cilantro is good. I’m eating some right now.
You say that now but just wait until you get salmonella, some HERBS should be avoided.
Well, yeah, I mean fuck that guy, too. Just leave my cilantro out of it.
It’s really all veggies. Can I introduce you to Romaine Lettuce and his little friend e. Coli?
How about your precious Kale and their BFF Listeria.
Spinach just did a thing with salmonella back in August.
Might as well go full carnivore. Wait, what? He did a thing with e.coli, too?
Maybe try breatharianism. Except there’s too much smoke in the air due to all the wildfires these days.
I love cilantro too. I grow it myself most summers. Have you ever tried Thrills gum? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrills
Never heard of it. But my wife has bought into the disgusting trend of chewing _________mint gum. As in Watermelon mint, bubblemint, etc. It is truly horrifying. I’ll probably be talking to a divorce lawyer soon.
Agreed. It’s damn near impossible to make decent Tex-Mex without good fresh cilantro, including guac.
And no hating on cumin either.
Rant over. All herb haters are now free to go back to eating their mayonnaise sandwiches.
I like a lot of herbs, it’s the HERBS I object to.
So many bad herbs out there these days…
You know what’s a bad herb? Lavender. Who the fuck is going to eat lavender? Sick bastards.
Agreed, lavender belongs in soap, not food!
And cilantro tastes like soap so we’ve come full circle…
Had lavender ice cream once and it was shockingly good.
Really? Have you had it in other foods? I’m curious if it somehow works in ice cream in a way it doesn’t with baked goods.
…lavender (in common with chilli peppers) actually can be tasty in chocolate?
Oh sure you’ll eat LAVENDER in chocolate but not peanut butter? Your bad food takes are concerning to say the least.
…I could just be spreading a rumour?
…or have been compelled to eat it out of an obscure sense of social obligation based on hundreds of years of traditions entirely more bizarre than lavender in chocolate
…not peanut butter in chocolate or anything…that would obviously be coo-coo for cocoa nuts…
…which is to say crazy talk that crazy people talk that like to talk the crazy
…but it’s all right because I explained about it all one time online in a comment section so now everyone knows the error of their ways & I’m sure that won’t be happening any more…because we’re grown ups & there’s lots of terribly important stuff to argue about aside from the rightful ascendancy of dark chocolate to the throne of most awesome chocolate?
“because we’re grown ups”…ehhh, am I though?
I’ve also had it as an infused balsamic vinegar and it was…passable, but I can say that I didn’t get that particular vinegar again.
No! Lavender is to drink, in tea, it’s very soothing especially after someone has added cilantro to your food and you’re feeling murderous.
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…if, like me, you consider twitter to be one of the places about which it has been said that angels fear to tread – & if the attachment gods are with me – there should follow the images from the header of the twitter thread that link points to
…should anyone feel it requires a post of a different flavor do remember that our kitchen (&/or larder/pantry depending on how you read that metaphor…& how you keep your kitchen stuff at home, I guess…) is open
…drop us a line as per the somewhat vague notes found under Roles if you fancy tilting at that (or any other) windmill in particular?
Cilantro is fine. I think you meant thyme?
Thyme is delicious, and associated with courage! Cilantro is cowardly.
Cilantro tastes like antiseptic and belongs in the trash.
This is the correct take. I knew I liked you Quasar.
Counterpoint 1: cilantro is awesome, and if you would like proof, I will gladly offer you up my homemade pork belly tacos. Or barbecue chicken pizza.
Counterpoint 2: thyme is equally awesome. Also, rosemary and sage. And basil! Oregano! Used properly, they make things taste better. Not sure about tarragon.
I read the link, and this statement caught my eye: “ It’s still operational but publishes stories without bylines.” I went to the old homepage to see what new literary wonders were there since the Great Schism happened. Lamar Jackson handed the Patriots their first loss and Kellen Winslow was convicted of rape. This is exciting news… 2 months ago… they’re not publishing jack shit right now. But moving an online website’s home base halfway across the country is surely the tonic they need to right the ship!
Right? That Herb Spanfeller knows how to run a news site. When the shit hits the fan, wait until nobody’s watching then slink away.