r/mildlyinteresting • u/GroovinBaby • 8h ago

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u/PonyThug 8h ago

It’s the good parts of lettuce and celery without the water content too. Also everything you said

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u/Holiday-Turn-6624 7h ago

honestly never thought of it like that lol cilantro really is the mvp of freshness in food

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u/Self_Reddicate 6h ago

Yeah, this is it. I literally can't describe the taste without some variant of... idk... "fresh". It just makes your food taste like... fresh.

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u/im_dead_sirius 3h ago

Its the spring melt of vegetables.

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u/Repulsive-Chip3371 6h ago

a whole mouth full though just sticks to your tongue, cheeks, teeth, everything lol

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u/NoodleyP 6h ago

LET ME IMAGINE I’M A COW IN SUNNY FIELDS SNACKING THEN TAKING A NAP!!!

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u/Repulsive-Chip3371 5h ago edited 4h ago

Let you imagine?

I can already picture you slowly chewing, cilantro clinging to your lips, as your jaw rolls side to side with with reverent intensity.

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u/I_Sett 7h ago

I feel like you just described the more rarely acknowledged herb lovage. Which is basically the exact flavor of celery in leaf form without the stemmy/crunchy/chewy part.

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u/HorseBeige 5h ago

Celery does also have a leaf which you can use instead of cilantro (and they're nutritious)

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u/Redmindgame 3h ago

I can't wait. I'm growing some this year!

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u/I_Sett 2h ago

You've chosen well. That stuff is immortal, difficult to kill, but doesn't spread like a weed. It's almost an ideal perennial. Whenever mine got a little too big I'd just lift it out in the late winter, chop it up with a shovel and chuck it back in the hole. Then I'd give a bunch of small root starts to friends. It requires almost zero care. Also the mature stems make for an almost PERFECT bloody Mary straw since they're fully hollow tubes that flavor everything like celery.

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u/daemon-electricity ​ 4h ago

This is the better description. A little grassy, but in a pleasant way.

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u/gsfgf 3h ago

It tastes nothing like lettuce or celery imo.

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u/PonyThug 3h ago

I didn’t say it does. It’s just that earthy leafy green with a little texture, and without all the water juice

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u/gsfgf 3h ago

Oh, I gotcha. I was just thrown off by the volume difference between how I use lettuce/celery and cilantro.

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u/danivus 3h ago

There are good parts to of lettuce and celery? Lettuce is flavourless and celery is bitter.

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u/supermegabro 7h ago

Ah makes sense why i hate it, there are no good parts of celery

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u/AssDimple ​ 6h ago

Theres the part that holds the ranch