David Farrier

Recently, I found these in my parents' shed 30 years later.

Parents' sheds, parents' attics and basements, great places to look in years on.

You find all your weird shit from when you were a kid.

Natalie wrote in with a number of items, and I'm going to end on her.

Would you like to hear them, Rob?

My wife, Natalie?

You decide.

That's the game.

Is this your wife?

Okay.

In regards to the coriander gene,

I mentioned the coriander gene a long time ago.

David, I am one of the 10% of folks who has the misfiring aldehyde detection system that makes coriander or cilantro, aka cilantro, taste like soap.

You humorously suggested that we were more evolved than others.

This is where things turn.

I'm not happy about this at all.

I actually felt quite distressed reading this.

You suggested that we were more evolved than others, but sadly, the opposite is true.

Way back in the days of yore, a relative of coriander was poisonous, so early humans had these systems that detected that so we wouldn't eat it.

However, that relative plant died out, leaving us with the edible coriander or cilantro of today.