Yous are teh suck

You will never know the joy of gazpacho

Oh please (to the woman in the article). If you have a recipe that has cilantro in it and you don't like cilantro, don't put it in. Are we still in the 50's where ingredients have to be measured out perfectly in a recipe? No. Do as the man says, try some. You might like it.

About time!

Do as the man says, try some. You might like it.


But see... we hate it because we've tried it.

Exactly, 'bang!.

We're not talking about a blindly accepted mental block here, urbanwhaleshark. You in the cilantro cabal won't convert the rest of us, cajole us, guilt us, like so many childhood-green-vegetable-haters-turned-adult-pea-and-broccoli-lovers.

So stop putting it in everything.

Or at the very least, list it on restaurant menus so we can avoid it? Is that too much to ask? Some up-frontedness, instead of this tricky attempt to fold it into every course of every meal so that you can point at us and laugh and say "Hey, look, you just ate cilantro and you didn't even know it; you must like it. Ha!" and then revel in our prior ignorance?

'Cause it ain't gonna happen like that.

All we want is equality, and the right to a cilantro-free existence.

* hums The Battle Hymn of the Republic *

the right to a cilantro-free existence

Then don't eat out. Or, at the very least, when in a restaurant, ask whether your meals contain a leaf that billions of others around the world don't have a problem with. Youre the customer, after all. Cilantro is, at most, a garnish placed in a meal at the end of its cooking cycle. Face it, if there are enough of you out there (and, tbh , there aren't), maybe menus will start to change to accomodate your perculiarly bland and homogenised tastebuds. But before that happens, you'll have to change first.

Your special menu will be the menu after the kids' one; and it will be blank.

I also hate the cilantro.

/secret handshakes mudpuppie and interrobang

Then don't eat out.

I'm not going to respond to this, shark, because you've turned a playful post into what could potentially become an angry debate, and that wasn't my intent. In any case, I don't much like your tone.

[On preview and reflection, I've decided to call you out. You having a bad day? This isn't the first time you've been snippy today, and it seems uncharacteristic for you, though maybe I've simply missed other historical instances of it. If you are suffering from a case of the grumps, I hope you feel better soon. But stop lashing out here, eh?]

Cilantro is, at most, a garnish placed in a meal at the end of its cooking cycle.

See, that's just plain false. If it were true, there wouldn't be an issue. (I understand that you probably already think it's a nonissue -- you basically just said as much -- but you'd be wrong.)

Anyway, this wasn't meant to be a political debate on the pros/cons of something that some people like and some don't.

I found the link humorous and relevant, since cilantro has its own MeCha wiki page.

Didn't mean to stir the pot, and will shut up now.

So, can I just confess my Mecha-crush on mudpuppie right now? Is this a good venue?

The line forms over there.

God, I hate cilantro.

That said, I suffered a bunch of it this past summer due to circumstances I just could not escape.

Now I hate cilantro, but don't vomit when I taste it. I suppose that's an improvement.

Yes. I am being very belligerent today, and im fine, in fact im having a great day. Regarding your call out (the second this week?), yes ive been "snippy" and quick with my comments today, and, perhaps in some cases not particularly sympathetic with them, but have apologised quickly afterward if my tone has not been appropriate, except in this case. But let's take a look at your post title: cilantro-haters. Come on. Here I thought would be a great opportunity for a little fun. And I did. Tho at your expense? That was never my intention as you should well know, tho you have taken it as such.

Then don't eat out.

You took me seriously?

Your special menu will be the menu after the kids' one; and it will be blank.

You really took me seriously?

As for cilantro being a ingredient placed in a recipe at the end of a cooking cycle, its what i know and how i (who actually use it, not being a hater 'n' all) cook with it, tho im happy to be corrected.

Your call-out was a huge over-reaction and unappreciated.

In retrospect, I shouldve just stayed away.

Just for the record, UWS, I took it the same way she did. I'm not saying that that's what you intended, but it is the way it came across.

UWS, if I misinterpreted your bit and didn't recognize it for the light-hearted comedy it was intended to be, I apologize.

I disagree that the call-out was an over-reaction, though, and it was acutally quite a bit more polite than I felt like being. You've just admitted to being belligerent today, and in another thread you called a Metachat user "dumb." (Yes, you apologized, gracefully. Good for you.)

Don't know why I feel the need to police your behavior, except that I like you and don't want you to turn into an ass. I realize that's not my place, but hey, there are times when all of us should just keep our goddamn mouths shut, but don't.

If you were on my list of People Who Are Consistently Assholes, I wouldn't have said anything. I wouldn't have cared. For what it's worth.

Also, just so you know, back on the topic that this seems to have turned into, "cilantro haters" isn't an affront to cilantro lovers. None of you need to take it personally. None of us in the anti-cilantro camp said "Jesus, why do you people eat that shit?" Sort of the way atheists don't knock on the Baptists' doors and say, "Hey, I'd like you to consider the fact that there is no god." We cilantro-avoiders are more like the vocal separation-of-church-and-state folks.

and in another thread you called a Metachat user "dumb." (Yes, you apologized, gracefully. Good for you.)

Yeah, for those that didnt quite get the link. Sigh.

Don't know why I feel the need to police your behavior...

Wow. aghast Seriously? No. Seriously?! I don't know whether my sides should split laughing, or my heart should break.

Pupps, irregardless of this pointless argument about cilantro, I'm not pissed at you. I still like you. But, for God's sake, no policing, please. You know where to find me if you want to talk about this further.