Subj : Participation
To   : Ben Collver
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Sat Feb 28 2026 12:20 pm

Hi Ben,

RH> I'm gradually improving, still not doing a lot beyond basic routine
RH> things.

 BC> Hang in there!  Friends and family have been getting colds.  The last
 BC> two colds have passed over me thankfully.

I usually don't get a cold; it'll go into bronchitis or otherwise
quickly. Almost done with the meds, alternating busy days with down
days. Yesterday and tomorrow were/are to be busy so today is a
recovery/recharge.

RH> We'll pass on the cilantro but otherwise it sounds good. Steve will eat
RH> miniscule amounts of cilantro if it can't be avoided; I will eat more but
RH> not a whole lot. At our favorite Mexican restaurant in in Hawaii, Steve
RH> would ask for his dish to be made with no cilantro; I'd ask for a small
RH> amount. We'd get the food and I'd pull out probably half a dozen or more
RH> big leaves of that stuff--makes you wonder how much was in their regular
RH> cooking. Meals were always good except for that.

 BC> I have the gene that's supposed to make cilantro taste bad, but i love
 BC> it. I guess that gene didn't express itself, thankfully.  I'm
 BC> surprised the restaurant in Hawaii wasn't more careful to honor your
 BC> request.  At least the big leaves are easier to pick out than little
 BC> bits are.

Steve has that gene, didn't know about it until he was on a temporary
duty assingment in Arlington, VA (from Berlin) during the first Gulf
War. He went to a Mexican restaurant and had a salad as part of his
meal, thought they'd washed the greens in dishwater. Found out it was
cilantro and has tried to stay away from it ever since. I think the
problem with the place in Hawaii was that they had a lot of prepared,
ready to put into a burrito, taco or tortilla, fillings and would not
pay attention to the wait staff's request for "little cilantro". They
may have had a small amount of "no cilantro" fillings, easy to put some
of them into a wrapper than to pull leaves from the bigger batch of
stuff. Thankfully our favorite places here in NC are not the extreme
cilantro lovers that the people in Hawaii were. (G)

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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