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That secret would be potato chips.

From what I see in restaurants, the kids' parents don't know how to use utensils either.

The weather has been cool. But the plant came from a market where I think it got some greenhouse sun. <br /><br />

Here's a photo. The cilantro is on the left with the carrot like stuff at the upper right of the plant. Parsley is in the pot too. Yes I did indeed decide to buy rather than grow but my curiosity got the better of my judgement.

Got a new plant. The thing has two leaf types. One that is a flat leaf and the other that is like a carrot top. The latter stuff has a snipped stem it is associated with ....like a flower was cut off. The carrot looking stuff is pure stinkbug. The flat leaf stuff has none of that taste and tastes like vegetation. Nothing remarkable.

Your website doesn't say much. Hard to judge the concept.

Alan is completely FOS. He couldn't find because he didn't look.

It never smells like soap to me. I have to eat it. And the stuff in the market doesn't smell like stinkbug to me, just my ex-cilantro plant. So you should be safe.

I've read of reports suggesting its not the excretion or metabolism of asparagus but the ability to smell it in pee that differs among people.

To me, carrot greens don't taste anything like cilantro, soap or stinkbugs.

To me cilantro=soap, but asparagus is delicious.

What a fountain of self-righteous bullshit Bourdain has turned-on. Everyone looks bad and he looks the worst. As soon as someone starts telling somebody else how they should spend their money, you know that they are full of crap.

Its possible. But im thinking maybe there are different species of stinkbugs, and the ones we have around here dont smell, or maybe only male or female stinkbugs smell, or maybe they only smell when they mature. We get alot of these bugs and i dont recall them ever smelling, but maybe im imune to there smell. We have two stinkbugs in my part of the world...the native greenish-backed one (which is almost pretty) and the invasive brown bug from somewhere in Asia (Korea, I think) which are far more numerous and about as stinky as the native. How does cilantro taste to you?

Either you are one of those who cannot smell stinkbug ....or you were so sh!tfaced that your sense of smell was shot.

They stink if you annoy them too.

It tasted like stinkbug smells, instead of the typical ivory soap taste of cilantro. Which is why I don't use much of it. I've learned to dislike it less recently though.

I use very little of it and it seemed like a good idea to have a pot of it. But I think I'll take your advice and go back to buying it.

Good thought. It was young.

It was used fresh. This is a new taste in cilantro for me, definitely not the taste I expected. It will not have the chance to be cooked, its already in the trash. My hands still smell of stinkbug/cilantro. Ewww.

I planted some in a pot with parsley. The parsley is fine, but the cilantro tastes like like stinkbug with only a hint of cilantro. Your thoughts?

How about something Hawaian using Spam?

Yup. I have a cheap Y-peeler which works great.

Gifts on Father's Day are not generally expected. It is kind of a bogus holiday in the US. Most of us just get a hug and a "happy father's Day". Maybe a card. Really? I'd say that varies greatly from family to family. It's always been a really big deal in our family. The various dads always begin the day with breakfast in bed (the quality of which depends upon the age of the "cooks" and is often laughable, but daddy has to choke it down anyway and brag about how wonderful it is), and then some kind of special dinner, complete with cards and gifts. This year I'm giving my dad (who's 91 and in a senior center) some very nice tuned windchimes to hang out on his small patio. As far as wine goes, he loves port, so I always include a really good bottle of that, a luxury he loves but wouldn't buy for himself. I never thought of FD as a "southern thing", but it sure ain't much up here. Is your approach common where you live?

He still entertains me when he isn't in pompous mode.

Gifts on Father's Day are not generally expected. It is kind of a bogus holiday in the US. Most of us just get a hug and a "happy father's Day". Maybe a card.