I love cilantro. I love the taste, I love the smell, I think it’s awesome. My wife however, can’t stand it. Apparently there is an anti-cilantro gene that some people have that makes it taste like soap or pine needles. It’s sad for me because I don’t get to eat it as much as I would like and I can’t share the joy with Amanda. Anyone else love or hate cilantro?
Mmmm…rust. Got sorta of a tangy kick to it.
I wonder if Biff scrapes it off and labels it “paprika.”
I love cilantro. I think it is a fabulous flavor. Of my siblings however, I am the only one who feels this way. One of my brothers is indifferent toward it, and my sister and other brother both despise it, although my sister does acknowledge its culinary potential a little.
Interestingly enough, while we’re two groups of half siblings, it’s my sister and I on one side, and my brothers on the other (ie, same dad, two moms). Very strange indeed.
I /adore/ cilantro. just the smell of it makes me hungry.
Second post!
Looks like Biff forgot the dough part of doughnut.
Excuse Biff while he puts nuts in his mouth…
Yeah, Biff’s one dirty bugger.
The Duck Has Spoken.
I like cilantro in my Mexican food. It gives it a kick without making it spicy.
I can’t get enough cilantro; my mother, however, absolutely abhors it. ‘Tis sad.
Cilantro is amazing. ’nuff said. It seems to go well on a lot of things.
When I was a toddler I would always chew on metallic and iron-tasting metal wherever I could find it. Maybe it means that my body wasn’t getting enough iron back then. Who knows.
Ugh. You have not known the devil till you try and grow cilantro. I hate the stuff just from that. Fresh cut the smell of the sap and such is so repugnant and it sticks with you for the longest time. 6 hand washings and its hardly weakened.
LOVE it. Nuff said.
I used to like cilantro, but where I grew up everything was soaked in the stuff, so after about age 16 or so, I just stopped liking it. The smell of it brings back memories of growing up, but the taste is just sorta blah now.
I hope Biff is up on his Tetanus shots.
HATE Cilantro. Vile stuff and all that.
Great comic as always
As I understand it, chewing on ice is a sign of low iron, weirdly enough.
And I can’t say one way or the other on cilantro, not having eaten any to my knowledge.
Cilantro is nice with indian food as they use it alot in there cookin.
The addition of seasoning to rust makes all the difference.
and K cilantro is know as Coriander around most of the world except america where they seem to like to rename things and pervert the english langue (being english myself it does annoy me a little).
Always knew Biff was a little nuts XD. *gets bricked for bad pun*.
By the way, at the risk of sounding dumb….what the heck is cilantro?
I suffer from anemia, so this is a funny to me. I deal with the fact that the stuff I take is dried ferrous sulfate and when I hear “ferrous sulfate”, I think of all of the artificial food-related things I can’t or really shouldn’t eat.
Still, what he’s eating isn’t out of the ordinary on Dirty Jobs.
Rust is flavor, rust is digestive age, rust keeps the old pipes clean. That’s what my old man Rusty used to say.
Ah, my mom is like that. It doesn’t bother me or my dad at all though.
I like cilantro, but i can only have a little at a time.
If you asked rosemary, that would be another thing
Huge cilantro fan. However, I enjoy essentially every spice, in the right context. Except Oregano and Basil, because they’ll make everything better.
Ooh, sorry, never had cilantro. I like this comic.
I have no idea what this “cilantro” thing you speak of is.
hehehe. awesome scentence.
Coriander. It’s just the leafybit of coriander. Us Americans adopted that from Mexico and never looked back. Especially me. I love my cilantro. At my favorite restaurant, I ask for extra cilantro. At home, I usually buy a bouquet of it when I make mexican food and/or salsa, and add little doses of cilantro and lime juice to salsa to keep it fresh.
Oh. And Thai food. No wonder my soup never comes out right! I keep forgetting that crucial ingredient.
I like cilantro, but my wife hates it. To date, this means I can’t cook with: Cilantro, eggs, or milk. She’s a picky eater.
I despise cilantro in all forms and all recipes;
my wife and sons love cilantro!
There seem to be a lot of homes divided over this issue.
Oh nos, I am allergics to cilantro!
(I can’t believe nobody else said it first…)
Biff admits to a strange flavor lust
He likes to have food with an oxide crust
But some people feel
its makes for bad meals
He thinks rust dust disgust is unjust
Mmmmm… The leafy, tangy cilantro goodosity!
The rest of my siblings range from ‘adore it’ to ‘eh.’ My wife doesn’t care one way or another, but the kids love it too. Which means I can put in as much as I like. Cilantro and lemon juice are best mates for cooking in my house. Yaaay!
Loads of cilantro and garlic in homemade hummus… with homemade tortilla crisps… Yummmm…
love it! makes so many things taste better!
I love cilantro! It’s the key ingrediant in ceviche
this one is awesome
Cilantro’s a tricky thing for me. There’s a sort of aftertaste/spike that I HATE about the stuff on an unhealthy level but the taste itself is good. That spike however seems to go away if you let the Cilantro mellow in something like salsa for a few days and it’s perfectly pleasant for me then.
Yum.
Cilantro is essential to Mexican food for me & my stepfather. My teenage brother can take it or leave it. My mother HATES it! She claims it tastes like soap & ruins everything for her. Her loss, I say. *L*
Hmm, Coriander. I wonder if she’s aware of that fact. I certainly wasn’t, and I do nearly all the cooking.
I put cilantro in my genghis grill bowls all the time…all the other flavors overrun it, it’s mostly just the thought
i LOVE cilantro!
i don’t know if they have a trader joes near where you live, but if you don’t, it’s a really awesome natural food store that sells EVERYTHING you hear people talk about on the Food Network…anyway, they have this cilantro yogurt dip that is to die for! it tastes great on crackers!
I have the anti-cilantro gene.
I agree. It tastes like pine needles. Only not as good.
I don’t get the title for this one – Tymps?
It’s the same with nuts. The world is against nut lovers, stealing away the culinary joy that would come if people would allow nuts into more foods.
Palsh963, any-one who knows me knows that I’m an inveterate opposer of the bastardization of English; however, I couldn’t help but cringe when I read your comment:
-Cilantro comes from the spanish word for coriander, not America.
-Cilantro generally denotes the leaves; coriander, the seeds.
-It is ignorant in the extreme to claim America is more responsible for language bastardization than any other English speaker, Britain in particular. Learn some etymology.
-Don’t make yourself look foolish: if you choose to complain about language issues, don’t EVER use the word ‘alot’, make sure you use the right form of ‘their, get to know your friend the comma, and make sure you don’t spell language as ‘langue’.
I love cilantro, I like to rip it up and add it into my instant noodle cups. Mmmm greeen stuff and sodium.
Sleepingorange, I love you..
I was about to leave a similar comment.
In any case, cilantro is AMAZING. I’m sure it doesn’t compare to that good old rust flavor, however… (maybe it does XD)
Sleepingorange, well said. I applaud you.
and, having taken a History of the English Language course in college recently, I couldn’t help but giggle at your third comment.
and I dunno. Rust and Cilantro could taste much the same…just cilantro adds the kick to the meal.
all of my familly loves it, including me, but it’s mostly because cilantro is widly used in our country(Portugal) where it’s called Coentros
I’ve probably had cilantro before and never knew it, so I can’t really say whether I like it or hate it. I know we have it with our huge rack of unused/old spices back at home.
Stil Biff proves once again that he got a snake jaw by being able to swallow that thing whole xD
I love the stuff thanks to my mom. Growing up she would cook pinto beans laden with cilantro, generally just washing off the whole bunch of it and tossing itin, stems and all
Cilantro is one of the best spices in the world! It can make something as in-edible as a Taco Bell burrito into something with actual flavor! It’s still not very edible, mind you, but it tastes 1000% better. When cilantro is added to real food, though, the results are spectacular.
All my mates, and my girlfriend agree that cilantro is one of the best spices for all dishes from breakfast to dinner.
Also, I love the comic. Just make sure Biff’s not allergic to a tetanus shot (like I am), because nobody likes lock-jaw. Although, I’ve hardly seen Biff open his mouth. Maybe he’s already got lock-jaw.