SC - Asparagus smell

[Olwen the Odd]

> > Excites the Urinary passages???  So what causes the damn awful smell to 
>my
> > urine whenever I eat fresh asparagus?
> >
> > Drakey.
>
>I'm sure I have this information somewhere, but the bottom line is that
>everybody's urine has this chemical in it after eating asparagus, but
>not everyone has the gene that enables them to smell it. You, like me,
>are what Harold McGee has referred to, in the section of "On Food and
>Cooking" that deals with this, a stinker. ;  )
>
>Adamantius

You confuse me.  Are you saying REALLY that some folks have a gene that can 
enable them to smell certain things and not others?  The only time that 
happens to me is during allergy seasons.
Olwen, a stinker
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