Fortunately for this little guy, I don't like the taste of parsley so I'm not going to eat it. I thought I was alone in having somewhat negative feelings towards parsley, but my god, parsley turns out to have bothered and even terrified people throughout history. Plutarch wrote that the ancient Greeks were so terrified of parsley that the Corinthians won a battle by exploiting this fear: they sent a bunch of donkeys laden with parsley towards the Greeks, and the Greeks fled. According to an article I by a parsley historian (yes, a parsley historian), the Greeks had long associated parsley with death. This belief was then carried on through history, and during medieval times people apparently believed that before parsley seeds could germinate they had to travel to hell and back.
I knew there was something weird about it.
Phylum/division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Apiales
Family: Apiaceae
Genus: Petroselinum
Species: P. neopolitanum
