Celery seed

Phthalides against tomato glutamate; without it the drink tastes like soup.

Ground together it becomes a seasoning that tastes savoury before salty.

Cold starch and mayonnaise need bitterness, not more herb.

Shredded raw with vinegar; the seed supplies the savoury note slaw lacks.

Sulfur plus phthalides. Every egg sandwich worth eating has this in it.

Phthalides stop brown meat reading as liver. Old Bay knew first.

Neutral spirit carries the phthalides; nothing else is competing for space.

Shared green aldehydes, but the seed adds the bitterness cucumber lacks.

Saline and bitter-green; it does what a mignonette does with less acid.

Rubbed on before smoking, it reads as though stock had been added.

Malic acid against phthalides, the Waldorf idea with the celery dried out.

Juniper resin and celery bitterness both finish dry and slightly medicinal.