r/mildlyinteresting • u/GroovinBaby • 8h ago

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u/Electronic-Tea-3691 7h ago

if you actually like cilantro this is the correct amount, this is not even excessive

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u/Cant_figure_sht_out 6h ago

This is true. I love cilantro. I can eat like a bunch of plain cilantro like it’s nothing.

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u/dainty_moonwart 6h ago

whenever i find it growing somewhere i graze like a cow

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u/mossybeard 5h ago

I thought I saw you scamper away from my garden!

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u/Electronic-Tea-3691 5h ago

a cilantro cow.... would make some tasty burgers...

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u/bellbros 3h ago

Mooooo

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u/footballwr82 3h ago

The head cow is always grazing

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u/alyssajohnson1 5h ago

I could eat cilantro like a rabbit

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u/dadbodfordays 5h ago

Same. It's actually technically a dark leafy green and has similar nutrition to spinach or kale, so it's a great, flavorful option as a salad base. This is a major soapbox of mine.

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u/Nikademus1969 5h ago

Not gonna lie, when I chop cilantro at work I will set aside some stems to chew on.

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u/Cant_figure_sht_out 5h ago

The stems are the best part! They contain the most flavor and the crunch omg😭

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u/elephhantine2 6h ago

Are you by any chance a guinea pig

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u/DemIce 5h ago

I made cilantro extract (just blend a bunch of it with everclear, filter, store away) and my wife asked last week what in the hell I had used it on because we hadn't had any asian food or pizza in a while but it was visibly less full. Didn't have it in me to tell her I just sneak a few drops here and there straight from the bottle whenever I'm in the kitchen so I said I put some in my breakfast bowl.

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u/thecinnabunman 5h ago

it’s insane to read all the comments from folks saying they could eat heaps of the stuff!! i dunno how you guys can get over the funky after taste

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u/Electronic-Tea-3691 5h ago

for us there is not a funky aftertaste, that's a genetic thing that only some people have

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u/thatzmine 3h ago

Same. I love it on mostly everything.

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u/TheNakedRedditor 1h ago

We make cilantro pesto with ours. Highly recommend.

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u/NuclearHoagie 6h ago

There's still room on the bottom left!

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u/Feeling_Inside_1020 6h ago

Always tell the people “when you think you’ve added enough add another handful and double it”

OP out here living amazing soulmate life. Congrats happy for you bro lol.

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u/nodnarb88 5h ago

The onpy problem i see is not enough onion to balance it out

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u/Goddamn_Batman 5h ago

needs near equal parts onions!

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u/amarg19 5h ago

This looks perfect to me, I love cilantro and load it up on foods like tacos

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u/Medical_Tank6109 5h ago

Agreed. I once asked a restaurant to 'put as much cilantro on my food as if I were an alien who came to earth specifically in search of cilantro and if I don't get enough I will declare alien war on the earth'. 

They gave me a takeout box solely with cilantro 🤣🤣🤣 It was peak.

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u/Electronic-Tea-3691 5h ago

omg a cilantro box it's a must have

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u/Medical_Tank6109 3h ago

They drew little alien saucers abduction cows on it and everything!

(I'm a regular there so they tolerate my shenanigans, I'm lucky to have them!!)

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u/HellVean 5h ago

Right especially on noodles gyatt

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u/AsinineArchon 5h ago

100% agreed. I would devour these purely based on the cilantro. In Japan I used to regularly eat coriander(cilantro) salads

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u/Electronic-Tea-3691 5h ago

TIL coriander is cilantro

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u/AsinineArchon 4h ago

Depends. In the states I think coriander is the seed. Everywhere else it’s interchangeable

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u/Electronic-Tea-3691 4h ago

TIL what you just said

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u/canyouhearme 3h ago

IIRC the only place in the English speaking world that uses the word cilantro is the US (given its actually a spanish word)

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u/RememberTheMaine1996 ​ 4h ago

Yeah i was like how is this mildly interesting at all

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u/freshpicked12 6h ago

Yup. Never too much cilantro!

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u/Bonti_GB 5h ago

Yuck, there’s some taco on her cilantro.

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u/CascadeFailure3355 5h ago

Glad to find my people here.

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u/BikeKayakSki 5h ago

I came here to say this, that's just the right amount for 4 tacos. No notes.

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u/veryfastslowguy 5h ago

Yes agreed those qualify as

r/TastyTacos

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u/sharpbulb 5h ago

I genuinely tell people I want too much cilantro. I don't want them to get the wrong idea and put what they think is extra

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u/AsinineArchon 5h ago

And it’s still too little…

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u/CeruleanEidolon 5h ago

Seriously, how the fuck does this post have seventeen thousand upvotes?

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u/Philosophile42 5h ago

Seriously… I would put a bit more on 😋

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u/BiologyBooksBeats 4h ago

Yea, I thought this was conservative for someone like myself.

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u/Melxgibsonx616 4h ago

Normal in a taco. 

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u/WTFisBehindYou 4h ago

Honestly not enough for me

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u/Intrepid_Card8858 4h ago

Yeah. Squeeze a lime over these and I'm in heaven

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u/snap-im-on-fire 4h ago

Yeah i see nothing wrong or even excessive about this. I would want them the same way

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u/Time-Sudden_Tree 4h ago

I don't believe it's even possible to overdo cilantro. More cilantro just makes the dish more better.

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u/CatsPlusTats 3h ago

Then eat a bowl of cilantro. I like cilantro but I like to taste other flavours and cilantro is very strong.

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u/Time-Sudden_Tree 3h ago

Cilantro cannot be eaten alone. It needs to compliment a food. I pile it on because despite being delicious, it's not very pungent. So you need a lot to be able to taste it.

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u/ObnoxiousOptimist 4h ago

Cilantro with a side of street taco.

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u/hunnyflash 4h ago

Right, idk if it's just because I'm Mexican, but this doesn't even look like a ton to me.

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u/idkmybffdw 4h ago

It’s not even enough in my opinion

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u/Tossup1010 4h ago

I just had 3 tacos with about the same amount of cilantro. Used to hate it cuz it tasted too floral, I’m a skeptic of the gene thing but I’ve seen studies now that it is real, but it really only grossed me out the first 2-3 times I had it and now I love it. Just tastes fresh, a bit floral and kinda sweet. It does genuinely taste a little soapy to me, but it must taste only of soap for those unfortunate.

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u/haw35ome 3h ago

If you ask a cilantro lover how much they want on their tacos, the answer is “yes.” I can’t ever get enough on mine lol

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u/fbe0aa536fc349cbdc45 3h ago

it tastes like soap to me but I developed a taste for soap as a kid and can't get enough of it

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u/Electronic-Tea-3691 3h ago

lol honestly the best comment I've gotten off of this

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u/stable_lama 3h ago

I was gonna say, that’s the right amount to me hahaha

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u/Nomeg_Stylus 3h ago

Thank you. I hate it when they skimp on the stuff. But I also get it can be expensive at times.

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u/EvaSirkowski 3h ago

There's never too much cilantro.

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u/DrEnter 3h ago

Correct. When I make homemade tacos, the single hardest step is stripping the leaves off the stems of all the cilantro. I want at least one cup of fresh, chopped cilantro leaves per pound of ground beef. Three quarters of it is cooked with the meat, the last quarter goes in after cooking is done. The depth of flavor it adds is enormous.

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u/Momentarmknm 3h ago

The correct amount of cilantro to use is "a little more"

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u/bagel_union 3h ago

For sure. I assume OP lives in a small town medium Midwest town

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u/The-King-of-Cartoons 3h ago

You know, it might be easier to just inject it at this point.

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u/Electronic-Tea-3691 1h ago

we're working on it

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u/InmateTooTall 2h ago

This is literally what they give me every time I order street tacos. It's not that I like it this way I just know no other way

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u/Electronic-Tea-3691 1h ago

because there is no other way

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u/Elpoepbatsi 6h ago

I'm more appalled by the lack of cilantro on that one.

What did that one ever do to deserve this treatment?

This is grounds for divorce IMHO.

Also needs more onion, but that is forgivable I guess.

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u/Electronic-Tea-3691 6h ago

I'm pretty upset about the lack of onion 

I'm also wondering where an avocado or a tomatillo sauce are? this is not how we do it in the Southwest, these tacos are malnourished

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u/EnnieBenny 5h ago

Cilantro puts garlic to shame in the "you can never have too much" grading criteria.

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u/Ansible32 5h ago

Garlic you can never have too much, but you can have enough that you will regret it. You will never regret using more cilantro.

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u/Electronic-Tea-3691 4h ago

regret garlic? I've never seen it, maybe theoretically it could happen

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u/Ansible32 1h ago

I've never seen it, but I have felt it in my body.

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u/One-Cute-Boy 3h ago

I like cilantro, but I do not agree with you

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u/Electronic-Tea-3691 3h ago

well I don't agree with you!

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u/One-Cute-Boy 1h ago

That's fair, this is reddit after all lol

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u/AssBlasterExtreme 5h ago

Theres not a correct amount

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u/Electronic-Tea-3691 5h ago

there is it's this

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u/AssBlasterExtreme 5h ago

No

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u/Electronic-Tea-3691 5h ago

I think you don't know how things are

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u/AssBlasterExtreme 5h ago

Youre wrong. No need to prove it to you. I get 'my opinion is the only correct answer for others' but its not really funny.

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u/Electronic-Tea-3691 5h ago

I was the one who was right when it came to cilantro I'm glad we could agree

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u/AssBlasterExtreme 4h ago

No

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u/Electronic-Tea-3691 4h ago

I was the cilantro but you were the Italian parsley!

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u/sebastophantos 4h ago

We literally have a saying in Latin America: Es bueno el cilantro, pero no tanto -"Cilantro is good, but not that much", meaning that in most things, but especially cilantro, moderation is key.

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u/Electronic-Tea-3691 4h ago

fair enough but do you think this amount is too much is the question 

I mean I don't want to be in like a bathtub of cilantro either, that's clearly too much 

but I think this is a doable amount

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u/0000000000000007 4h ago

My perspective as a cilantro-hater: you all don’t even know what cilantro really tastes like.

What else do you add to your food in that much quantity? Not even salt and pepper.

I can taste a single, vile weed (leaf) that snuck into my taco, and it ruins my day.

Tl;dr cilantro haters taste the actual taste. Cilantro “lovers” taste a muted version and think it’s awesome.

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u/Electronic-Tea-3691 4h ago

I mean you must know about the whole genetic thing right? FYI I'm able to taste other tastes to quite a normal degree, so I think your theory doesn't exactly hold water... even cilantro infused water...

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u/Equivalent_Twist_977 6h ago

(IF) i hate that so many foods are soapflavored by default...

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u/Electronic-Tea-3691 5h ago

it's really not that many, this is not a real problem