Those that like cilantro are genetically inferior

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Muse

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I've got news for you. Everybody's genetically inferior. You can't find me a human being who doesn't have genetic mishaps. You are all inferior.
 
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nOOky

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Every human being alive today evolved from one single man in Africa a few years back. Scientists studied the Y chromosome and genetically humans are engineered to like cilantro. Those that don't most likely have a hormone imbalance that can be cured by making them eat cilantro until their stool is green, then eating that stool until they find it tasty.
 

AdamK47

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Mmmm. I have everything on-hand to make that recipe except the lime. I just put lime on my digital shopping list. :cool:

PS: I dig cilantro! Just had some fresh cilantro from my garden with my dinner. If you can't enjoy cilantro I guess there's something wrong with you. Touché, OP!
Some people's buttons can be pushed a bit too easily.

Cilantro is a nasty disgusting weed. My higher level ability to taste confirms this fact.
 

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Some people's buttons can be pushed a bit too easily.

Cilantro is a nasty disgusting weed. My higher level ability to taste confirms this fact.
Fail.

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant. - Harlan Ellison
 
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Cilantro is a nasty disgusting weed.
I HATE raw onions. Ginger even more. Their pungency is too much for me. Yet I will not stop eating if my food contains them (sometimes I will eat a raw onion slice if it comes with salad). I do so by telling my brain that it's good for my body. You could do the same. Just saying.
 

Muse

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I HATE raw onions. Ginger even more. Their pungency is too much for me. Yet I will not stop eating if my food contains them (sometimes I will eat a raw onion slice if it comes with salad). I do so by telling my brain that it's good for my body. You could do the same. Just saying.
My cousin (father's sister's daughter), has always loved to eat raw onions, i.e. from childhood. I asked her a few years ago if she still does this and she answered yes. I have regarded onions as God's gift to cooks for many years, although not particularly uncooked. Lately I add chopped raw onions to my refritos, top quality cheddar too... chopped cilantro as well! Top with Late July organic multi-grain chips! Very satisfying.

Ginger is intense. I keep some ginger root frozen. It's a great addition to some dishes, is essential for teriyaki.
 
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AdamK47

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I HATE raw onions. Ginger even more. Their pungency is too much for me. Yet I will not stop eating if my food contains them (sometimes I will eat a raw onion slice if it comes with salad). I do so by telling my brain that it's good for my body. You could do the same. Just saying.
That's like getting repeatedly kicked in the balls and accepting it by telling yourself that it builds character.

Eating cilantro may be a harsher punishment.
 
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Muse

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Science has unequivocally proven that individuals still retaining the lizard part of the brain responsible for cilantro tasing like anything other than soap to be primitive and unevolved.

Ordered lunch and stated I did not want cilantro. Food was served covered with the vile weed. Meal ruined.
So, your beef is with the people who prepared your food. I suggest you take it up with them or their management or patronize a different establishment.

Those that like cilantro are genetically inferior​

Not having the courage to confront the staff of the restaurant, instead you target those who advocate for cilantro on the menu, the people you call genetically inferior. They ruined your lunch, poor fellow. You denigrate them, maintain their inferiority. By implication you want them eradicated, a foray into eugenics.
 
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Muse

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Dunno about the other one, but I'm hesitant to accept "reptiles magazine" as an impartial source on this topic.

PS what the hell is "cilantro"? Never heard of it.

Edit - ah, it's coriander?




Frankly, I can't remember what I think of coriander. Don't think it's ever made any impression on me, either way.



Does this make either the OP, or those who disagree with them, racist? Feels like it makes one side or the other racist, just not sure which.
Cilantro is just the plant that produces the seed known as coriander, indeed. I began growing cilantro by buying coriander at a local market and planting it. Recently I bought presumably slow-to-bolt cilantro seeds off the internet. I'm not at all sure it's slower to decide to flower, etc. It does slow down greatly if it gets relatively little sun. ;)
 

JEDI

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Cilantro is just the plant that produces the seed known as coriander, indeed. I began growing cilantro by buying coriander at a local market and planting it. Recently I bought presumably slow-to-bolt cilantro seeds off the internet. I'm not at all sure it's slower to go to seed. It does slow down greatly if it gets relatively little sun. ;)
oh did not know that.
Does coriander tastes like cilantro?

Would make it easier if it did then i don't have to buy fresh cilantro every week to make chimichuri sauce.
just grind the seeds in a pepper grinder
 

Muse

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oh did not know that.
Does coriander tastes like cilantro?

Would make it easier if it did then i don't have to buy fresh cilantro every week to make chimichuri sauce.
just grind the seeds in a pepper grinder
My impression is that coriander tastes not like cilantro at all. Both are valued. But I don't use coriander. I would if recipe required it. I do use cilantro a lot! My GF used to buy it in bunches. She'd keep it alive, IIRC, by putting the stems in water. I just grow it, year round if I can manage to keep some pick-worthy. I grow it in small pots in the patio.
 

AdamK47

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So, your beef is with the people who prepared your food. I suggest you take it up with them or their management or patronize a different establishment.

Those that like cilantro are genetically inferior​

Not having the courage to confront the staff of the restaurant, instead you target those who advocate for cilantro on the menu, the people you call genetically inferior. They ruined your lunch, poor fellow. You denigrate them, maintain their inferiority. By implication you want them eradicated, a foray into eugenics.
It's as if the buttons push themselves.

On that note... cilantro, still terrible.
 

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Cilantro is just the plant that produces the seed known as coriander, indeed. I began growing cilantro by buying coriander at a local market and planting it. Recently I bought presumably slow-to-bolt cilantro seeds off the internet. I'm not at all sure it's slower to decide to flower, etc. It does slow down greatly if it gets relatively little sun. ;)

Point is just that outside North America the whole thing is referred to, for culinary purposes, as coriander - both the seeds _and_ the leaves. The seeds are "coriander seeds" while the leaves are "coriander".
 

sdifox

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Point is just that outside North America the whole thing is referred to, for culinary purposes, as coriander - both the seeds _and_ the leaves. The seeds are "coriander seeds" while the leaves are "coriander".
NA is special. And not in a good way.
 

Muse

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Point is just that outside North America the whole thing is referred to, for culinary purposes, as coriander - both the seeds _and_ the leaves. The seeds are "coriander seeds" while the leaves are "coriander".
It's less confusing if they have a different name. They are incredibly different.
 

nakedfrog

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So, your beef is with the people who prepared your food. I suggest you take it up with them or their management or patronize a different establishment.

Those that like cilantro are genetically inferior​

Not having the courage to confront the staff of the restaurant, instead you target those who advocate for cilantro on the menu, the people you call genetically inferior. They ruined your lunch, poor fellow. You denigrate them, maintain their inferiority. By implication you want them eradicated, a foray into eugenics.
This is America, the clear solution is to lock and load and gun down every person in the establishment (naturally with a stance of dominance). Then they're sure to not repeat the mistake, and he's spared the indignity of talking to restaurant staff.

And they probably don't use cilantro in jail.
 

Muse

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This is America, the clear solution is to lock and load and gun down every person in the establishment (naturally with a stance of dominance). Then they're sure to not repeat the mistake, and he's spared the indignity of talking to restaurant staff.

And they probably don't use cilantro in jail.
But if he does go to prison for murdering the restaurant's customers and staff, he will have even less sway in his culinary experiences. Indeed, prison records would document his distaste for cilantro and if he's sent to solitary, he's apt to find it in his tea, salad and gruel.
 

AdamK47

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But if he does go to prison for murdering the restaurant's customers and staff, he will have even less sway in his culinary experiences. Indeed, prison records would document his distaste for cilantro and if he's sent to solitary, he's apt to find it in his tea, salad and gruel.
Your inability to detect aldehydes in your food makes you a lesser evolved version of humanity.