What veggies do chickens like?

[CabritaChicks]

Hi, mine enjoy spinach now and again, and go wild for coriander (cilantro if you're American ) and flat leaf parsley, strangely they don't go for curly leaved parsley so much

It’s funny how names change depending on where you are—I’ve lived all over the world, and it’s the same plant playing dress-up. Technically, cilantro refers to the young leaves and stems, while coriander is the seeds. But depending on who you ask (and how close the plant is to blooming), you’ll hear both. Basically, in more “rustic” corners of the world, everything’s coriander—and nobody’s losing sleep over it, but the flavor does differ from the point of harvest (in which is USA they harvest at an extremely young age compared to other parts of the world). Fun little herb fact for you.

 

[Mid Wales chicken keeper]

It’s funny how names change depending on where you are—I’ve lived all over the world, and it’s the same plant playing dress-up. Technically, cilantro refers to the young leaves and stems, while coriander is the seeds. But depending on who you ask (and how close the plant is to blooming), you’ll hear both. Basically, in more “rustic” corners of the world, everything’s coriander—and nobody’s losing sleep over it, but the flavor does differ from the point of harvest (in which is USA they harvest at an extremely young age compared to other parts of the world). Fun little herb fact for you.

Ha, I grow my own, along with parsley, guess Wales is pretty rustic

 

[Mother of Chaos]

It’s funny how names change depending on where you are—I’ve lived all over the world, and it’s the same plant playing dress-up. Technically, cilantro refers to the young leaves and stems, while coriander is the seeds. But depending on who you ask (and how close the plant is to blooming), you’ll hear both. Basically, in more “rustic” corners of the world, everything’s coriander—and nobody’s losing sleep over it, but the flavor does differ from the point of harvest (in which is USA they harvest at an extremely young age compared to other parts of the world). Fun little herb fact for you.

As one of those with the genetics that make cilantro (the green parts of the plant) taste somewhere on the continuum of soap to ancient never-washed gym uniforms, I have no problem with coriander seeds but can smell cilantro a mile away, and it takes hours to get the taste out of my mouth. It reminds me of IPAs, fingernail polish remover, and stink bugs - that lovely acetone taste.

RIP, the beloved ihatecilantro.wordpress.com, especially the haiku section.

If Ina Garten and Julia Child can (could) hate cilantro, I can too! blech