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March 4th, 2008

Hold the herb, Herb!

Posted by: Robert Basler
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coriander-300.jpg“…egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam…”

Life imitates Monty Python at this Japanese restaurant where every dish on the menu contains the herb coriander. It’s worth a trip just to jerk their chain.

“Waiter, can I get this coriander salad without coriander? Now, this coriander burger, does it have coriander in it? I have this illness where I’ll drop dead if I eat any coriander, so have the chef be real careful…

“You know what, maybe I’ll just go next door and eat at Basil’s House of Basil…” Hayley Platt reports:

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4 comments so far

For the true Python experience, I recommend this Spam restaurant in Manila: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id= 29&art_id=qw1079601663255B214&set_id=1

- Posted by Richard Baum

The reporter on that video said that people are beginning to grow their own coriander.

DON’T DO THIS!! My parents tried to grow coriander once. It apparently propagates itself very well: one year we had three plants, the next year we had five or six plants, and the third year half the yard was coriander. It’s been 33 years and still every year I’m pulling coriander out of the lawn, out from between the paving stones, out of the eavestroughs, and even out of the cracks in the garage floor. I may never have to pay for coriander, but this is ridiculous!

- Posted by Charlene

“You want me to hold the coriander?”

“I want you to hold it between your knees.”

- Posted by John C Abell

Charlene makes me wonder if you could cross coriander with kudzu and end world hunger. I’m just saying…

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

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