SC - Asparagus smell

[Huette von Ahrens]

- --- Ted Eisenstein <Alban at delphi.com> wrote:
> >>This also explains why some folks are more of
> >>fended by the smell of someone who has had a heavy
> garlicky dinner, while others
> >don't seem to notice
> 
> 
> Hmmmm. Might this explain some racial stereotyping?
> I am given to understand
> that the Japanese used to dislike the Chinese
> because "they stank of garlic"; and
> the same thing happened in Europe - Greeks were
> considered smelly for the same
> reason, I believe. . . 
> 
> Alban

I thought that it was the Koreans that the Japanese
disliked because of garlic.  I have read that they
called Korea "the land of the garlic eaters".

Huette

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