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Green lentil soup spiked with lots of lemon is one of the best soups imo

Oh ok, I’m not aware of that, they are just French lentils that taste nice! They are a protected origin product so if they’re more expensive that’s why. But they are legit different in taste and texture iirc?

Puy lentils, or lentilles du Puy, are French lentils that have been grown in the Puy region of central France. The variety is the same, but since they are grown in this distinct place (which has volcanic soil) the taste is slightly different — it's even more peppery and flinty.

ah I see why the Puy lentils are more suited to fake meat flavours

Side note: when I was in Chicago I was reading a thing about deep dish pizza on here and aero specifically recommended the deep dish pizza called The Lou at Lou Malnatis, which was amazing, so I take his food opinions seriously!

Yes, fgti, i did wonder if i've just been roasting the coriander improperly. I dry roast and grind it of course, just not sure i've got the heat level and timing down. The recipe you linked said it'll pop like mustard seed when it's done, which hasn't been my experience.

I usually use French/green lentils to make adas polow which is basically Persian kichari topped with dates and raisins. this recipe is very similar to the way i make it (family recipe) except i mix in 2/3rds bunch of chopped fresh mint with the rice before steaming it.

I really like mediterranean style *red* lentil soup spiked with lots of lemon!

For a while I was doing a green split pea curry with lots of cumin seeds, spinach and a can of coconut cream and the combination of cilantro and lime put it over the top.

That sounds fuckin delicious

Thx ymp

tbh i spent 5 minutes more than i shd have last night trying to work out some of these analogies in my head and my only conclusion was that analogies are very bad and unhelpful for me

(re JLG. posted here to avoid derail rather than for snark)

from what i understand if you are one of those people it's virtually impossible to like it anyway -- my gf is one and if cilantro even brushed something she ate, it's like it was rubbed with an actual bar of soap. it's overwhelming apparently.

― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Tuesday, September 13, 2022 1:35 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

not the case here - sometimes it’s fine, sometimes it’s very soapy, usually somewhere in between (so most of the time it’s “it’s a bit soapy yeah but not enough to stop me from eating this otherwise delicious tacos”)

Theres a part if me that’s like “define ‘soapy’”? Weird perfumey floral soap taste? Or like, weird slick stinging mouthfeel taste?

I’m so thankful I enjoy cilantro so much it’s so available and POW! for me.

I used to really hate cilantro, soapy taste etc, but a few years ago my attitude changed and I'm cool with it now. I honestly don't know if my chemistry changed, if I acclimated myself to the taste after occasional exposure, or I just talked myself into a new attitude, but it sure works on tacos el pastor.

i did cilantro conversion therapy and i'm committed to being a cilantro eater for the rest of my life, upright before god

I don't understand either, because I don't know what soap tastes like. Maybe I'd like it if I tried it especially if it tastes like cilantro.

https://i.imgur.com/G8xjEoN.jpg

WmC, does it still taste soapy to you and you're just cool with it or does it taste different now?

I'd say I can still pick up a faint soapiness but it's more vegetal now. It's slightly soapy in a way that works in the usual dishes where I encounter it (tacos, pho).

it's a good day to bite into a bar of soap and recalibrate

I went to a takeaway snack shop once and everything tasted like soap, made me feel pretty sick too, wouldn't recommend

eating soap in a motel 6 is the ultimate staycation detox event

weird, this morning a guy sitting next to me in the subway said the same thing, unprompted

I nodded

that guy was just hoping you'd respond with something related to cilantro. because his cilantro story is incredibly good

everywhere he goes, he contrives new reasons to talk about soap, which is of course just the bait for his cilantro story

what if cilantro DOES taste like soap and some ppl just don’t have the soap receptors, poor suckers

Isn't that how asparagus pee works?

They don't have asparagus pee receptors?

I don't believe cilantro has a different taste to different people, I just think some people are not willing to expand their horizons to be adventurous about taste

as someone who dislikes cilantro despite not being genetically predisposed against it: fuck off

omg will these troglodytes ever become adventurous? will they agree to love things they dislike?

gtfo

also take this entire thing to the cheese borad ffs

:)

i know!

if it truly tastes like soap, let the soap taster cake themselves in mud and then wash themselves clean with only one bunch of cilantro.

Ilx would be a very different place if we had communists, plural, rather than the Reddit definition of “eVeRyOnE tO tHe LeFt Of Me Is A cOmMuNiSt”

why the camelcase? does this inhibit searches or something

No

Ilx would be a very different place if we had communists, plural, rather than the Reddit definition of “eVeRyOnE tO tHe LeFt Of Me Is A cOmMuNiSt”

― barry sito (gyac)

i'm plural but i'm not a communist. well, wait. maybe one of us is. she changes her mind a lot.

viborg or table or someone called me a tankie, that's as good as a CPUSA membership card isn't it?

viborg or table or someone called me a tankie, that's as good as a CPUSA membership card isn't it?

― papal hotwife (milo z)

god, if it worked like that there would be fuckin' nazis everywhere

oh shit

I mean, there kind of are nazis everywhere.

viborg or table or someone called me a tankie, that's as good as a CPUSA membership card isn't it?

I mean, there kind of are nazis everywhere.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux)

that was the joke

it's funny, ha ha, see? the entire world is run by fuckin' nazis

comedy gold

Fwiw you were doing a very tankie thing— waving away Chinese fascism and oppression in the service of attacking US goals that are anti-China. I merely pointed out that you can be against Chinese intrusion into Taiwan and also be against US policy goals in China.

― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table)

i have a sincere request

can we please not relitigate this whole thing

i grant the point that it is entirely possible, though by no means certain, that milo z is a tankie

just to be on the safe side, please nobody give milo z any tanks

xp Sorry Kate, I'm much slower on the uptake than I used to be.

no worries, personally i think there are upsides to my being slower than i used to be. taking one's time is a good thing, but i wouldn't ever do it if i wasn't so old now that i don't really have a choice in the matter!

Fwiw you were doing a very tankie thing— waving away Chinese fascism and oppression

That didn't happen, though. Here's what I actually said before viborg called me a tankie, to refresh your memory: "Heightening tensions with China is so fucking stupid." "Anti-imperialism is when you threaten war on the (other) side of the world on behalf of your client state."

to kill a dragon

Okay, that’s fine.

Frankly, kate, i’ll post however the hell i want about whatever i want.