Taking a stand

[infinite monkey]

I cannae stand cilantro. (see whut I did thar?)

There's a decent mexican restaurant in town who loads their salsa with cilantro. I cannae eat it.

Although, as my friend says, it needs to be et.

But I like black licorice. Go figure. I guess it's like how I love bananas but banana flavored anything gets me illin'.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by Ocean's Edge

Cilantro, coriander, fennel, anise, licorice - they're all very potent flavours decidedly distinctive.... and tend to be in those love em or hate em categories with no middle ground.

I like strong flavours. Kippers for example. Or Marmite (but not on crumpets, never on crumpets.)
And I can eat cumin and coriander laced dishes.
It's only the liquorice family that I will flat out refuse to eat.

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

I cannae stand cilantro. (see whut I did thar?)

Kilt wearer!

I guess it's like how I love bananas but banana flavored anything gets me illin'.

Nana's get me illin' every time. So fibrous and yet so mushy...

Oh and a formal welcome Ocean. Was hazy as to whether you were a newbie or an existing Dwellar who'd changed their name.
You slot in pretty well, pretty lady.

[limey]

Mmmmmmmmmarmite on crummmmmmmmpets! :thumbup:

Sent by thought transference

[Sundae]

Crumpets are in my head right now, as Dad accused me of eating Mum's crumpets.
She bought a pack of six, ate two and then they disappeared. Dad's first response?
I must have eaten them after they went to bed.

Mum countered that I was eating very healthily and although I may have had one, I certainly would not have eaten four. And also that even if I'd had a mad crumpet-fest I would have left some sort of note. Well, she says she said that, but you can't always be sure with Mum.

Anyway, they were found by noon, in the cupboard we keep biscuits and crackers and crisps in. We know Dad must have put them there because I had not even seen them, Mum still has her memory and Dad... ah, you know.

Solved the mystery of the missing crumpets anyway.

[monster]

Cilantro :tastes like Fairy Liquid.

[Sundae]

Hmmmm. You have something there.
I always used to say that you knew a good naan bread by the fact it tasted slightly soapy.
Chances are it was the cilantro.
Given I always had naan instead of rice I was in a good position to judge.

No shop-bought naans even come close.
I lie. M&S do a good naan. But it's still only within throwing distance of a restaurant naan. And Dads is an ex cricketer; he can throw a long way.

[Aliantha]

It really surprises me how many people are at least ambivalent to coriander. I find it to be an essential part of the flavour of so much asian style cooking. Maybe if you're tasting it too much you're using too much of it?

We have it fresh in things like rice paper rolls or salad, but a lot in thai style curries or soups. I just can't imagine that the recipes taste quite right without it.

[Chocolatl]

Some would argue that you're genetically predisposed to dislike it.

I love it, but my husband is one of the people on this Earth who thinks it tastes violently of soap, so it never enters our cooking.

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The flavor I can't stand? Dill. I've taken to telling people I'm allergic to it, as that's easier than saying "I hate it so much it makes me puke."

[Sundae]

I was so impressed with a colleague at work when she rejected a shop-bought salad saying she didn't like dill.
This is where I sound like an uppity bitch, but the girl read the Sun, had no clue about the arts, couldn't name a contemporary author... but colour me impressed, she could identify a herb to the extent that she did not like it.

I learned a life lesson that day.
People might not always conform to your ideas of intelligence; doesn't mean you are better than them.

Oh, I scoffed the rest of her M&S salad. Turns out dill is okay by me.