Didn't mrnoodle have them?

perhaps jebus made them go away?

tofu? oatcakes? worms? quorn? the mind boggles

and no, worms aren't too prevalent as a pest in the states as far as I knw

we so need a field of 64 on this. Who knows how to set that up?

field of 64? like in basketball?

It's true they're not particularly common here, but if you tell your doctor that your toddler won't stop scratching his ass, they will suggest the possibility of pinworms. The test is to check your kid's butt at night--they say you can see the worms crawling around on the outside since they come out at night--or to put a piece of tape across their butthole, and supposedly some worms/eggs will be stuck to it in the morning. Can't say for sure, though, since it turned out that's not why my kid was itching.

How do the worms know when it's night if they are where the sun don't shine?
Just curious.

That's a very good question. That's the kind of question that would come from a curious child. Something that an adult would just take for granted and not bother wondering about. I'm impressed, and a little envious (not jealous) that I didn't think of that question.

I'm going to hypothesize that the bowels are less active at night, and so they know that it's night time because nothing is moving.

I'll follow up with a question. How do they know which way is out?

I bet they go with the current, rather than upstream. (peristalsis)

They follow Carol-Anne into the light.

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Here you are.

Sorry if you opened it at work.
You can pretend it's a bellybutton. Or the Pit of Sarlacc. Or something other than a threadworm ringpiece.

Oops, gave it away.

how the fuck did "the tastes you hate" lead to this

(please don't answer me. is rhetorical question)

makes more sense than "the tastes you love"

damn! Where are we going to go from here?

User title: question everything.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Well, if we had any more thread drift here, we'd all be posting from Pern.

...and eatin dragon drumsticks...

... and next morning we would have dragon's breath

... a mere dragon's breadth from Ali's house.

Cilantro--ptui!

I once went to a pot luck dinner... got my plate, took a spoonful of this, a spoonful of that. I'm interested in trying new tastes. One dish looked like a green cobb salad, all finely chopped--a spoonful. When I sat down and began to eat, I took a bite of this "salad" and found to my disgust that the main ingredient was cilantro. UGH. I don't mind a little (that is, I can tolerate) in salsa. But I'll pass on any dish that features that flavor. It definitely evokes "soap" for my palate.

Mercury.

The metal. When I was a little kid, I bit down on a thermometer with the expected disastrous results. Blood and crying and pain and spit and that taste. I occasionally get a whiff of it but I don't know where it's coming from. Very distasteful. *shivers*.

I'll stand pat. If I can come up with anymore, I have three choices in reserve.

I also hate cauliflower.

Yeeeech.

but I realize that puts me one over the strict limit of five.

I'm so sorry I opened the thread and its goatse. :(

Coriander!... Cilantro is coriander.

Google truly is myfriend.

corriander is the seed.

cilantro is the leaf.

they have different tastes. Indeed, some plants are so different that some parts are edible and different parts of the same plant are toxic, for example, rhubarb.

See this pine tree? Many parts are edible.

--Euell Gibbons

Yah. I get that. But over here they're just coriander seeds, and coriander leaves.

Yesterday night we went to Qdoba and I asked for half the cilantro rice in my burrito, and that worked out nicely.

So does corander taste like cilantro/coriander leaves?

Not really. It is more of a spice. Kinda smells a little lemony not strong on flavor.

I dunno. The seeds make naan bread taste of soap.

We had a whole thread about cilantro quite some time ago. The seeds are called corriander seeds and the leaves are called corriander over here. It's all just parts of the same plant. Over here.

Coriander seeds taste like a component of curry powder, in which they often figure. Bust 'em up in a grinder. They're those little tan round things in pickling spice and pickle juice.

Coriander is from Latin coriandrum directly; cilantro comes from the same via a Medieval Latin mutation, celiandrum, and curiously enough is only attested to in the earliest twentieth century, per Mirriam-Webster online. The American usage is to distinguish between these two plant parts doubtless because they are seen in widely divergent cuisines, making the connection less than obvious. Except to lexicographers and other harmless drudges.

I like this image of the lexicographer as a harmless drudge.

Yah. That made me smile too.

Samuel Johnson: "Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words."

Your countryman. His Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.

Oo, oo! A Time magazine book review of 1963.

But without cilantro, it just ain't salsa cruda hardly. An acceptable mixture of minced onion, chopped tomato, and minced hot green peppers (any chile, depending on desired fierceness) and garlic, yes... but this nice mixture (freshness of everything is key) wants its minced leaves too. To taste, of course.

It takes an interesting character to tailpost on himself.

Me. Me. Me. Let's go back and see what I said in this thread. Because ME.

I've since changed my mind about brussel sprouts. My wife makes a variety that is roasted in a little bit of olive oil and sprinkled with a dash of salt, and they are absolutely delicious. It turns out I just hate poorly prepared brussel sprouts. So that makes room for marzipan.

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It's not exactly common, but anyone who's ever taken a sip out of a water fountain and it's all rusty tasting knows what I'm talking about. You experience that a few times and then you learn to let all water fountains run for a few seconds before you take a sip. Or let your companion drink first.

... or both. ;)