The most evil flavour in the world : Coriander

[Cort Haus]

I typed "Why does coriander taste completely evil" into Google and the first entry was this place: http://ihatecilantro.com/

I have found my spiritual home on the internet.

[LordShiva]

I like coriander! Especially in omelettes

[SlowwHand]

Cilantro rocks.

[Cort Haus]

The trouble is, that the damn, vile spreading weed has become so fashionable that it is put into foodstuffs everywhere without being declared an ingredient.

Ordering a meal from any restaurant these days is a dangerous business without an explicit promise from the chef that there will be no coriander in it.

As one fellow-sufferer put it :

"Oh, disgusting, vile plague that assaults the palette like essence from a mountain of sweaty rotten gym socks soaked in floor wax, how I abhor you!

Cilantro, coriander, chinese parsely, you have proven that the devil still has a strong grap on beings of this world. To taste but a flake of your foul foliage is what one can only imagine it must be like to lick Satan's armpit.

[KrazyHorse]

Coriander and cilantro taste very different, actually...

[Imran Siddiqui]

Cilantro . I agree with Slow, it rocks.

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Coriander and cilantro taste very different, actually...

Are they not two words for the same thing?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilantro

[SlowwHand]

Now I'm hungry for beef fajitas. :drool:

[Ramo]

Cilantro is magic. It's the key to decent Vietnamese and Mexican food.

And yes, coriander's pretty different.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Cort Haus


Are they not two words for the same thing?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilantro

It's become the general trend to use coriander to refer to the seeds of the plant in question and cilantro to refer to the leaves of the plant.

They have two different tastes.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
It's become the general trend to use coriander to refer to the seeds of the plant in question and cilantro to refer to the leaves of the plant.

Maybe in North America.

[KrazyHorse]

I guess.

Even within NA there are regional variations.

In Quebec people call cilantro "coriander leaves"

Just like Quebec is different from the rest of NA in its names for certain members of the onion family.

What the rest of NA calls "chives" we call "shallots"
What the rest of NA calls "shallots" we call "green onions"

[Spec]

I hate ketchup.

Spec.

[Arrian]

Cilantro is nasty. I can't stand that stuff. Dunno about coriander.

-Arrian

[Makahlua]

....Hang on, chives and shallots are not even the same!

Shallot = baby onion looking thing with pale lavender/pink flesh
Chive = very thin, straight dark green, shoot with no root
Green onion (aka spring onion, scallion) = thicker than chive, kind of layered, with a slightly ticker part at the end, varied in color from white to green, white statrting at the root

I see getting scallion & chive confused, but shallots look like the bulbs you plant in the garden for spring flowers like daffodils... Crazy french speaking canadians

Oh, topic? I like cilantro in certain things, but I don't like how every dish that feels it wants to be hip has to have it in it