If you don’t hate cilantro, you just don’t understand.
That’s the conclusion I’ve come to after countless times requesting no cilantro and getting cilantro. A common version of this is the “that thing doesn’t have cilantro,” but it does, and I get it, on my food, that I asked for no cilantro on, iteration. Why? Because if you don’t hate cilantro, you just don’t understand.
Today at Grey Dog, a place I like and frequent for lunches, I ordered the vegetarian chili, without cilantro.
“It doesn’t have cilantro, I think you mean scallions.”
“Maybe it does have scallions, but it also has cilantro, at least sometimes, so I would like to not have that.”
“OK.”
Not scallions
As you can see from the photo above, my chili came with cilantro.
What’s a girl to do? Yes I picked off the cilantro, yes I picked off half of the not-much-to-begin-with cheese with it. But really, is it so much to ask for no cilantro, and get no cilantro?
Depending on how bad the situation was, i’d be tempted to pile the cilanto in a messy pile in the middle of the table and write with big permant marker with an arrow saying “THIS IS CILANTRO!”. But, i’d have to be pretty pissed off to be that rude.
I feel your pain. If i ever live on mars i’m going to ban cilantro from the whole planet. It is a plant that should never colinize other planets.
Soups are premade my love, they can’t take the cilantro out… haha
they can leave the cilantro garnish on top of the soup off very easily!
*Gasp* As a fellow cilantro hater, that is unforgivable.
hi! I don’t know you but I stumbled upon your blog when I googled to find out WHY I HATE CILANTRO!!! Your blog is a riot and I totally empathize. I HATE HATE HATE IT! It’s disgusting! And they always put it in even when you ask them not to. I even put a cilantro-hating thing in one of my books, btw. I hate it that much…
love this blog!
ps I can smell the stuff fifteen feet away when I”m at the farmers market. My daughters rabbit likes it (my son fed it to him) but I refuse to even touch it to give it to him so he is a cilantro-free bunny…)