Yes! Leigh is wise! Cilantro is coriander!
(For a long time I had no idea what cilantro was, that you were getting worked up about.)
Mal: You want to tell me how come there's a statue of you here looking at me like I owe him something? Jayne: Wishing I could, Captain.
'Jaynestown'
Delurking 1: Because we don't always check our e-mail.
Fay - Oct 04, 2009 3:27:06 am PDT #317 of 3094
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
sj - Oct 04, 2009 3:32:19 am PDT #318 of 3094
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Cilantro- If I am cooking, I'll use parsley instead, but I don't mind eating it at a restaurant.
Serial comma-a must!
Fernet-I'm afraid to find out, but I am sad that I missed the attempts to light it on fire at the F2F.
Mala - Oct 04, 2009 3:33:23 am PDT #319 of 3094
I must amend my entry to say that I also lurk in this thread now.
Hello to fellow lurkers!
I haven't weighed in on any important matters of taste. I love cilantro (mmmmm), do not like either olives or muffulettas, have never tried fernet, but am fully committed to the serial comma.
Barb - Oct 04, 2009 3:44:11 am PDT #320 of 3094
“Not dead yet!”
Cilantro is good and necessary. At least, if you cook Cuban food. Parsley is no substitute.
Dunno about fernet or absinthe. I suspect my move to the PNW will take care of both of those deficiencies.
Captain Morgan Private Stock on the other hand is the One True Rum.
Fay - Oct 04, 2009 4:11:33 am PDT #321 of 3094
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
I am still fuzzy on the nature of the muffuletta. I have looked it up on Wikpedia, and established that it was something sandwichy, but then promptly forgot all the details. (In my head, it's the name of part of a car. A pink car that Barbie drives.)
Ginger - Oct 04, 2009 4:33:41 am PDT #322 of 3094
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
A muffuletta is New Orleans' contribution to the hero-grinder-sub sandwich genre. It is cold cuts including ham and salami; cheese; and the signature olive salad on a round Italian-style loaf of bread. Olive salad is a sort of relish made of olives; various vegetables such as cauliflower, carrots and celery; spices; vinegar; and olive oil. It is best experienced by buying it at Central Grocery, where it may or may not have originated, and eating it on a New Orleans street with the olive oil dripping off your hands. As may be obvious, I am pro-muffuletta.
This thread was an inspired idea, ita. It's so great to not only meet lurkers but also to be reintroduced to everyone else.
Fay - Oct 04, 2009 6:30:04 am PDT #323 of 3094
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
hero-grinder-sub sandwich genre.
Meaning a sandwich on baguette-type bread, yes? Like from Subway?
I have to say, from your description I think I too would be pro-muffuletta.
Beverly - Oct 04, 2009 6:41:27 am PDT #324 of 3094
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
::grabs Barb's definition of muffaletta and hugs it to chest:: It's so cute!
Steph L. - Oct 04, 2009 6:51:30 am PDT #325 of 3094
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Fernet: of the devil, and not in the fun way.
Wrod. That shit is nastier than Jager, and I don't say that lightly.
I've always wanted to like Scotch, but my palate doesn't like the smoke/peat taste.
In fact, due to various circumstances (#1 being living with a non-drinker), I drink so so SO much less than I used to. Kind of sad, but I think my liver appreciates it.
The serial comma is the only way to go, I'm neutral on cilantro, and muffalettas are tasty.
JZ - Oct 04, 2009 7:15:24 am PDT #326 of 3094
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Okay, delurking since I also have been mostly lurking here - it is SO COOL to see the lurkers coming out to play, and to see all the internationalistas and localistas! (And the other stepmom--Sassy, we need a secret handshake or a something.)
JZ. Bayista, spouse of DavidS, stepmom of Darth Tigger, mom of Matilda, teaching hospital office drone, frustrated writer, frustrated actor, voracious reader, genuinely fond of turgid and overwritten and sentimental Victorian novels the size of a cinderblock, vintage clothing slut. I think that covers it.
eta: Not quite. Olives, cilantro and Fernet yay. And, like Leigh, inconsistent on the serial comma.