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Parsley
On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 14:04:42 -0400, jmcquown >
wrote:
>On 4/11/2019 12:15 AM, graham wrote:
>> On 2019-04-10 9:39 p.m., jmcquown wrote:
>>> On 4/10/2019 9:52 PM, wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 11:44:25 AM UTC-5, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 11:36:40 AM UTC-4, notbob wrote:
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>>>>>> Regular flat Italian parsley and reg cilantro taste almost the same in
>>>>>> the produce section of most sprmkts.* It was "organic parsley" that
>>>>>> got
>>>>>> me started into "organic".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> nb
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>>>>> I can always tell the difference between parsley and cilantro
>>>>> at the grocery store.* Either your grocery store sucks, or your
>>>>> taste buds require greater stimulation than mine.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>>>
>>>> Boy, howdy!* Cilantro may be green but it certainly doesn't taste
>>>> anything
>>>> like parsley.* Nasty stuff to me; as Ina Garten says about cilantro "not
>>>> now, not ever."
>>>>
>>> I'm one of those people who thinks cilantro tastes like soap.* So no
>>> way amd I going to add chopped (or dried) cilantro to anything.
>>> Parsley is a whole different thing. 
>>>
>>> Jill
>> While I agree with you about cilantro, parsley to me has never been more
>> than a decorative herb, its flavour so inconsequential that drying it
>> would be a waste of time.
>> There must be genetic markers to match up with people's likes and
>> dislikes of some herbs just as some lack the gene to smell asparagus pee.
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>ROFL! I haven't heard about asparagus pee in decades. Sorry, but I
>don't sit around sniffing my urine, I just get up and flush the toilet.
>Never noticed a smell after eating asparagus.
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>Curley parsley is good for decorating a plate but it does have flavour.
>Flat leaf parsley is different. Tastes different from the curley.
>
>Jill
I only grow curly leafed parsley because it has so much more flavor
than the flat leaf. Flat leaf has a very grassy flavor
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