On 22 Oct 2003 10:57:43 -0700, (Carnivore269)
wrote:

Anything that goes well in a sandwich goes well in a lettuce wrap. :-)

C.

I don't know about that. Peanut butter and jelly in a lettuce leaf
does nothing for me. ;-)

......Alan color me whole-wheat


--
Curiosity killed the cat -
lack of it is killing mankind.

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 10:53:27 GMT, Frogleg wrote:

On 22 Oct 2003 00:36:16 -0700, (Carnivore269)
wrote:

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 20:22:30 GMT,
(A.T. Hagan) wrote:

Tastes like soap to me as well.

Ok, so some people don't like Cilantro. So what? I'm glad to know that
I am not alone. ;-)

I've heard the "tastes like soap" comment before,

Certain flavours are like genetic markers for people. Cilantro is, I've
heard (can't find citation now, so this is worth the cost of the paper
you're reading it on), one of these genetic markers. There simply are some
people for whom it will never taste good because of the genetic makeup of
their tongues.

Just another reason why arguing over flavours is ludicrous.

--
Siobhan Perricone
"Who would have thought that a bad Austrian artist who's obsessed with the human physical ideal could assemble such a rabid political following?"
- www.theonion.com

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 14:05:21 GMT,
(A.T. Hagan) wrote:


OK, I went back and Googled this thread for a second time and I can
see how someone could interpret my statement that way so to be clear
I'll state that it was not my intention to tell Lea how to make her
salsa. Lea, if *you* interpreted it that way you have my apologies.
I would never tell a hostess to how make her food unless they asked my
opinion. What I was trying to express was agreement with Nancy that
cilantro tastes like soap to me as well - nothing more.

As for you, SF, bugger off.

HEH Apology accepted, ya little twit.

On 22 Oct 2003 00:36:16 -0700,
(Carnivore269) wrote:


Ok, so some people don't like Cilantro. So what?

You're reasonable person. What you "don't like" and
dictating what you others to prepare for you are entirely
different.

HEH There are things I don't like (and I'm NOT allergic
to), but I would never begin to pretend that I wouldn't eat
it if someone served to me while I was a guest in their
home.

(A.T. Hagan) wrote in message ...
On 22 Oct 2003 10:57:43 -0700, (Carnivore269)
wrote:

Anything that goes well in a sandwich goes well in a lettuce wrap. :-)

C.

I don't know about that. Peanut butter and jelly in a lettuce leaf
does nothing for me. ;-)

.....Alan color me whole-wheat

Oooh, I dare you to try it. ;-) Then report back! LOL!
My sister likes peanut butter and mayo wrapped in lettuce.

I don't eat peanut butter so have not tried it. I'm trying to stick to
the atkins diet, one reason why I actually do make lettuce wraps. ;-)

C.

sf wrote in message . ..
On 22 Oct 2003 00:36:16 -0700,
(Carnivore269) wrote:


Ok, so some people don't like Cilantro. So what?

You're reasonable person. What you "don't like" and
dictating what you others to prepare for you are entirely
different.

HEH There are things I don't like (and I'm NOT allergic
to), but I would never begin to pretend that I wouldn't eat
it if someone served to me while I was a guest in their
home.

Hon, what I was trying to point out is that this discourse is
pointless and discourteous to the OP...

She asked for help and got silly disagreements instead.

Tastes differ. So what? It does not matter in the grand scheme of
things. Please, pretty please let it drop and try to help the person
that asked for suggestions.

What the hell difference in the world does it really make if someone
can't stand cilantro? I mean really?????

Now if you want to START a thread about manners, we can change the
subject line. ;-) I know that mom and dad brought me up to at least
pretend to like what my host was serving.

And to bring a host gift which is something I've noted that a lot of
people don't do. I think it's bad manners but there is actually a
story behind that!

But manners have diddly squat to do with recipe requests.

Thanks!
C.

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 18:06:15 -0400, Siobhan Perricone
wrote:

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 10:53:27 GMT, Frogleg wrote:

I've heard the "tastes like soap" comment before,

Certain flavours are like genetic markers for people. Cilantro is, I've
heard (can't find citation now, so this is worth the cost of the paper
you're reading it on), one of these genetic markers. There simply are some
people for whom it will never taste good because of the genetic makeup of
their tongues.

Indeed, I was wondering if cilantro was one of those tastes (if there
is more than one). I remember my 9th grade science teacher passing out
little slips of paper to taste. As I receall, he was delighted because
the students who could taste nothing (I was among them) vs. those who
tsted something very strong and unpleasant agreed quite well with
ratios in the general population.

Frogleg wrote:

Indeed, I was wondering if cilantro was one of those tastes (if there
is more than one). I remember my 9th grade science teacher passing out
little slips of paper to taste. As I receall, he was delighted because
the students who could taste nothing (I was among them) vs. those who
tsted something very strong and unpleasant agreed quite well with
ratios in the general population.

Yes, it's like some people can't curl their tongue. It's genetic, not
a matter of it being unfamiliar. Geez, if I rejected anything that
was not familiar to me growing up, I'd still be eating only fried rice
and tomato soup with tuna sandwiches. Okay, so I'm exaggerating, but
not by a whole lot. And I would love turnips and (shudder) curried
beef.

nancy (why did I just remind myself of the curried beef over rice?)

On 23 Oct 2003 02:17:34 -0700,
(Carnivore269) wrote:

sf wrote in message . ..

HEH There are things I don't like (and I'm NOT allergic
to), but I would never begin to pretend that I wouldn't eat
it if someone served to me while I was a guest in their
home.

Hon, what I was trying to point out is that this discourse is
pointless and discourteous to the OP...

She asked for help and got silly disagreements instead.

I thought A.T. Hagan's comment to the OP was very rude and I
had a problem with it. Period.

sf wrote in message . ..
On 23 Oct 2003 02:17:34 -0700,
(Carnivore269) wrote:

sf wrote in message . ..

HEH There are things I don't like (and I'm NOT allergic
to), but I would never begin to pretend that I wouldn't eat
it if someone served to me while I was a guest in their
home.

Hon, what I was trying to point out is that this discourse is
pointless and discourteous to the OP...

She asked for help and got silly disagreements instead.

I thought A.T. Hagan's comment to the OP was very rude and I
had a problem with it. Period.

Ok, I'll buy that. ;-)
But you'd have better served the group interest by IGNORING the
rudeness and responding only to the OP.

See, some people grew up with cooking. Mom started me at age 4. Some
ADULTS have never even been near a stove and don't know the first
thing about preparing even the most basic and simple of meals!

That is why they come here. We need to be nice to them... Some really
arrogant people will treat simple questions with contempt as they
think that they are stupid questions, and that is very wrong. The only
stupid questions are the ones that you DON'T ask! See some of my
questions on microwave cooking! G

I've run into folks that cannot even change a lightbulb. They are so
helpless and that is SO scary! :-( We have shut-in kids who's parents
both had to work, and they got raised by the TV. If they watched
educational shows, they might turn out ok, but that seldom happens.
The current generation knows diddly about a LOT of basic skills needed
to survive!

Ok, lecture over... It's not really my place after all, but, you see,
I've had some REALLY bad experiences on some usenet groups and when I
found this one, I acted like a total idiot and got all hostile with
one of the more impressive posters and made a total ass of myself! It
was a hangover from hanging out on one of the worst forums alive,
(MFW) and I'm now trying to redeem myself. ;-) I'm not really like
that, deep in my heart... I'm doing my damndest to fix things now as I
really don't want to be ostracized.

Cooking is very, very important to me due to past history with eating
disorders and a lifetime of obesity. The only thing that is going to
improve my life and heal my body and soul is learning proper
nutrition! And making it tasty. :-) And remembering to take my
Thyrolar. G

I'm also caring for and cooking for my daddums. We just lost mom last
year so we only have each other, and he is not a very good cook. It's
pretty much my job now and that's ok. He cleans the kitty boxes! LOL!
He is 71.

So, this list has become very important to me, and I just hate to see
it ruined for anyone by people being unnecessarily hostile!

The best way to deal with rude idiots here is to ignore them...

See? :-)

Please go along with me on this, pretty pretty please, and post some
recipe ideas for this thread?

hugs
C.

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 06:30:42 GMT, sf wrote:

On 23 Oct 2003 02:17:34 -0700,
(Carnivore269) wrote:

sf wrote in message . ..

HEH There are things I don't like (and I'm NOT allergic
to), but I would never begin to pretend that I wouldn't eat
it if someone served to me while I was a guest in their
home.

Hon, what I was trying to point out is that this discourse is
pointless and discourteous to the OP...

She asked for help and got silly disagreements instead.

I thought A.T. Hagan's comment to the OP was very rude and I
had a problem with it. Period.

Lea was not the OP, Helen C. was.

Lea was trying to convince Nancy that cilantro was good in spite of
Nancy's having stated she thought cilantro tasted like soap -

From: lea )
Subject: Lettuce Wraps, chicken or beef...
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
Date: 2003-10-17 04:20:43 PST

Nancy Young wrote:
lea wrote:

You MUST have coriander. MUST.

Oh, you just reminded me, I have some leftover soap I could use.

you think coriander tastes like soap, or it makes you want to wash your
mouth out ?

either way: weird.

I was agreeing with Nancy that it tasted like soap to me as well, NOT
trying to tell Lea how to make her own salsa.


From: A.T. Hagan )
Subject: Lettuce Wraps, chicken or beef...
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
Date: 2003-10-17 13:22:31 PST

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 21:20:39 +1000, "lea" wrote:

Nancy Young wrote:
lea wrote:

You MUST have coriander. MUST.

Oh, you just reminded me, I have some leftover soap I could use.

you think coriander tastes like soap, or it makes you want to wash your
mouth out ?

either way: weird.

Tastes like soap to me as well.

Kindly leave it out of my salsa, thanks.

.....Alan.

YOU took on yourself to be offended on Lea's behalf and start your
diatribe.

Now on the off chance that Lea somehow took offense at what I said I
apologized, even though Lea has never given any indication that she
was offended, or indeed ever saw my post at all.

The person being rude and continuing to be rude is you.

If you want to continue on with this then send it to me via e-mail
otherwise let it lie. Ya little twit. ;-)

......Alan.


--
Curiosity killed the cat -
lack of it is killing mankind.

A.T. Hagan wrote:

snip

Lea was not the OP, Helen C. was.

Lea was trying to convince Nancy that cilantro was good in spite of
Nancy's having stated she thought cilantro tasted like soap -

Not exactly trying to convince ... I just *love* it and quite honestly have
never heard the soap thing before

snip

I was agreeing with Nancy that it tasted like soap to me as well, NOT
trying to tell Lea how to make her own salsa.


From: A.T. Hagan )
Subject: Lettuce Wraps, chicken or beef...
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
Date: 2003-10-17 13:22:31 PST

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 21:20:39 +1000, "lea" wrote:

Nancy Young wrote:
lea wrote:

You MUST have coriander. MUST.

Oh, you just reminded me, I have some leftover soap I could use.

you think coriander tastes like soap, or it makes you want to wash
your mouth out ?

either way: weird.

Tastes like soap to me as well.

Kindly leave it out of my salsa, thanks.

.....Alan.

YOU took on yourself to be offended on Lea's behalf and start your
diatribe.

Now on the off chance that Lea somehow took offense at what I said I
apologized, even though Lea has never given any indication that she
was offended, or indeed ever saw my post at all.

I saw it, was not offended. In fact, you didn't even come across as a
teensy bit rude.
Just leave it out of your salsa, more for me ! - we're both happy


The person being rude and continuing to be rude is you.

If you want to continue on with this then send it to me via e-mail
otherwise let it lie. Ya little twit. ;-)

.....Alan.

--
Respomnsibility is my husband's middle name

lea wrote:

A.T. Hagan wrote:

snip

Lea was not the OP, Helen C. was.

Lea was trying to convince Nancy that cilantro was good in spite of
Nancy's having stated she thought cilantro tasted like soap -

Not exactly trying to convince ... I just *love* it and quite honestly have
never heard the soap thing before

The soap thing is pretty common. The first time I had cilantro (chewed a
few leaves given by a friend in the garden) I thought it tasted soapy,
but the second time (on top of some food) I liked it anyway.

snip

snip

(A.T. Hagan) wrote in message ...
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 06:30:42 GMT, sf wrote:

On 23 Oct 2003 02:17:34 -0700,
(Carnivore269) wrote:

sf wrote in message . ..

HEH There are things I don't like (and I'm NOT allergic
to), but I would never begin to pretend that I wouldn't eat
it if someone served to me while I was a guest in their
home.

Hon, what I was trying to point out is that this discourse is
pointless and discourteous to the OP...

She asked for help and got silly disagreements instead.

I thought A.T. Hagan's comment to the OP was very rude and I
had a problem with it. Period.

Lea was not the OP, Helen C. was.

Lea was trying to convince Nancy that cilantro was good in spite of
Nancy's having stated she thought cilantro tasted like soap -

From: lea )
Subject: Lettuce Wraps, chicken or beef...
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
Date: 2003-10-17 04:20:43 PST

Nancy Young wrote:
lea wrote:

You MUST have coriander. MUST.

Oh, you just reminded me, I have some leftover soap I could use.

you think coriander tastes like soap, or it makes you want to wash your
mouth out ?

either way: weird.

I was agreeing with Nancy that it tasted like soap to me as well, NOT
trying to tell Lea how to make her own salsa.


From: A.T. Hagan )
Subject: Lettuce Wraps, chicken or beef...
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
Date: 2003-10-17 13:22:31 PST

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 21:20:39 +1000, "lea" wrote:

Nancy Young wrote:
lea wrote:

You MUST have coriander. MUST.

Oh, you just reminded me, I have some leftover soap I could use.

you think coriander tastes like soap, or it makes you want to wash your
mouth out ?

either way: weird.

Tastes like soap to me as well.

Kindly leave it out of my salsa, thanks.

.....Alan.

YOU took on yourself to be offended on Lea's behalf and start your
diatribe.

Now on the off chance that Lea somehow took offense at what I said I
apologized, even though Lea has never given any indication that she
was offended, or indeed ever saw my post at all.

The person being rude and continuing to be rude is you.

If you want to continue on with this then send it to me via e-mail
otherwise let it lie. Ya little twit. ;-)

.....Alan.

Y'know,

reading back over the whole exchange, it now looks humorous rather
than hostile. blush
I must have been in a bitchy mood that night and mis-read it.

I apologize.

C.

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 14:35:49 GMT,
(A.T. Hagan) wrote:

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 06:30:42 GMT, sf wrote:


If you want to continue on with this then send it to me via e-mail
otherwise let it lie. Ya little twit. ;-)


sob
Oh darn, now you're being nice to me too.

back of hand to forehead
When will this end????