Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Food in General: Yes. Have some.
Fork: Switch? Huh? Well, I usually don't have to: being left-handed I stab the meat to keep it in place with the fork in my left hand, hack it to bits with the knife in my right and then eat. With my left hand.
Watch: Left-handed, right-wristed (when I wore a watch.) Also, wore the watch with the face on the inside of my wrist, the better to avoid banging the watch on walls or whatnot. This evidently infuriates some people.
Also: Sophia- the s2 Dr. Who finale broke me too. British TV tends to make me weep for hours (thinking about Life on Mars as well)
Cilantro: I am clearly not a true Buffista, because I don't even know what it tastes like.
Ailleann, all throughout my USA trip, I was trying to figure out what cilantro *is*. I didn't have a Hebrew-English dictionary, I had no way of finding out. only upon returning and checking did I discover what it is. Now I at least know that I don't know what it tastes like, because I'm not sure I ever encountered it here. I mean, it's made of coriander, right? We do have that, and I even use it (the leaves) in cooking, but nothing else. So I still am deep inside the big cilantro mystery.
Ah, Nilly, my sistah.
I know what cilantro is from Good Eats. I know it is highly contested here. That's about the extent of my cilantro knowledge.
signed, had pad thai for the first time at the F2F
Also, wore the watch with the face on the inside of my wrist, the better to avoid banging the watch on walls or whatnot. This evidently infuriates some people.
Heh. Yeah, that kinda' bugs me too.
Now I'm wondering why I'm so anal about watches....
I did have a nice watch that got all scratched up. That was sad. My current watch has a titanium case, so it's proven to be very scratch-resistant.
Nilly, coriander leaves and cilantro are the same thing.
I mean, it's made of coriander, right? We do have that, and I even use it (the leaves) in cooking, but nothing else. So I still am deep inside the big cilantro mystery.
nilly, for some crazy reason, in English, the plant is cilantro (so in cooking with the leaves you are cooking with cilantro.) and we use coriander to describe spice made from the seeds of the same plant. Like you, I called them both coriander until I was shown the error of my ways by a foodie boy.
Me:
Cilantro - whatev
Grapefruit - yay
Olives - yay
Root Beer - yay
Bacon - yay
Tomatoes - yay
squid - boo
Pineapple on pizza - yay
Beer - boo
Scotch - boo
Tequila - boo
Fernet - boo
Wine - yay
Rum - yay
Sleep - every which way
Fork - right hand
Watch - Left hand
I am right handed
Must try Montreal bagels, but really my food likey list is long enough.
Since Nilly is here to Jewish mommy Tom I'll just point to her post.
I mean, it's made of coriander, right? We do have that, and I even use it (the leaves) in cooking, but nothing else. So I still am deep inside the big cilantro mystery.
coriander and cilantro are the same thing. Over here, we call the coriander leaves cilantro and the seeds coriander, which is used as a spice.
It's just a terminology thing.
Another trivial thing that bugs me - people who drive convertibles with the top down but the windows up. It's aesthetically wrong!