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Originally Posted by Nicci6Squirrels
I know asparagus makes your pee smell funny. And vice versa.
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Foods that people eat do manifest themselves in body odors or body waste--like urine and sweat
The Harry Bosch novels refer to that--Harry in the books has no desire to eat Vietnamese food because he had to eat that all the time serving in the Army in Vietnam because he was a tunnel rat
Had to smell like the Vietnamese he would encounter down there so as not to give his presence away by smelling like US troops who ate more beef and dairy
In the tv series he is more prone to eat it w/his daughter and claim he got used to eating it during the war...
Other ethnic groups usually have diets w/routine ingredients that the average Americans don't eat in as large a quantity
When I was a child, my dad worked with an Hispanic guy--a mechanic--and we went to visit his family at their house--I can remember like it was yesterday the strange (to me) smell in the house when we went in
It was cumin--which to me was something I had never come across in that way--
They were great people--we spent lot of time with them--and learned a lot to like about Tex Mex food--
Like cabrito...
But she cooked with lot of cumin--and back then I certainly didn't know that spice or eat food my cooked with cumin in it
Now I use cumin when I make certain dishes but don't think we eat enough to leave residual effect...
Ghee is another food with strong odor (to me) and homes where people have cooked with it can also retain the odor...
And clothes can pick up household odors of all kinds not to mention have foods, especially spices, released through the body in several ways...
And if you read the books by Tony Hillerman and his daughter--
The detectives in the books sometimes make mention of the various smells that they notice around Anglos or other ethnic groups or various homes they are in because of the different diets that people eat that manifests itself in smells/odors...
That is totally different of course that just the acrid smell of sweat itself which can contain traces of the soaps or shampoos people have been using...
My son used to work as short-order cook at local Dairy Queen in high school
He hated working there because of the grease smell he would bring home in his clothing and hair--
He always had to take big shower when he got home and his clothes could retain that grease smell--had to use some type of additive w/the soap at times...
And yes--cigarettes are horrible for their pervasive smells
We bought used bedroom suite for our second home in FL that was vintage Dixie Chippendale style...it came from home of smoker--
We could see the nicotine on the exterior paint and had to use a battery powered toothbrush to help scrub it off before we took it into the house
Keep packs of room freshener in the paper sachets in all the drawers---
They weren't as badly effected as the exterior