An interesting point: mint and parsley are plants that attract rusalkas:

"A rusalka rushes at a maiden and asks her: 'Wormwood or parsley?' If she answers: 'Wormwood,' — the rusalka will run away; but if: 'Parsley,' — the water beauty will tickle the earthly one to death and drag her into the river. At the word: 'Wormwood,' the rusalka usually responds with annoyance: 'May you yourself vanish!' And if she addresses a man, then: 'May you yourself vanish; you are not mine.' — At the word 'parsley' the rusalka says: 'You are my darling!' and then tickles."

Such dialogues are also possible: "What did mother cook?" — "Borscht and wormwood… here is wormwood for you, may you yourself perish!"; "Here is parsley for you!" — "You are our darling!"; "Here is mint for you!" — "You are our mother!" (variant: "here is a home for you!").

(cited from: Kolosova V.B. Lexicon and Symbolism of Slavic Folk Botany. Ethnolinguistic Aspect. — M., 2009.)