June 2009
84 posts
May 2009
82 posts
DEAR PEOPLE WHO HATE CILANTRO:
okay. so we know you are defective. condolences are in order.
but does your genetic handicap have other implications? i am genuinely curious.
do you find yourself hating other things that everyone else around you seems to enjoy?
do you sneer at puppies?
do you hate sex? are you all “oh groooossss it smells like sweat! yuck.”
does pussy also taste soapy to you. does it.
i feel bad about it because several people i like and respect, ie stephen fry, don’t like cilantro but i can’t help thinking that it’s borderline racist. because cilantro is so integral to so many asian and central/south american cuisines and saying that you hate it just seems like a slight at our cultures.
it’s like back in the day when white people wouldn’t eat garlic because it was ethnic or this infuriating article about the “pioneer of yoghurt” that contains the sentence, “Although a traditional food in Greece, the Middle East, southeastern Europe and large parts of Asia, it was known elsewhere only to a small population of health faddists.”
the only thing i feel the same way about is licorice, but i don’t go around prostelyzing about it. and even the finns don’t go around putting salmiakki on everything. but i did feel bad when jimmy brought back zoute drops from holland for me and i could only eat like half of one.
