Strange tastes

[tigereye]

If you are what you eat....
So comes that some times you taste bitter,than sweet,another time sour or salty...
You have the freedom to be spicy and diverse.
An expert can bring out the best of you and you will become delicate.
Be adventurous!
Be delicately seasoned to drive people wild.

[chef]

So I've heard that the French and other cultures that eat a lot of garlic, sweat the scent of garlic when a lot is eaten.

...and when you eat certain foods, like asparagus, your urine reeks with an unpleasant odor.

So, are they any foods that have the opposite effect when eaten, in that your skin exudes good scent or tastes pleasant?

Vicki

[chef]

Interesting article called "Food for Thought".

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien ... 93678.html

Vicki

[chef]

I found the following in an article on "How to Smell Nice":

http://www.wikihow.com/Smell-Nice

Don't eat certain foods. If you have body odor problems, avoid garlic, onion, cumin, fenugreek, curry, cheese, cigarettes, coffee, and anything else that smells. Your sweat glands will ooze sweat combined with these smells - stinky!

...worth paying attention to before a date or intimacy.

Vicki

[Shana Moore]

http://www.wikihow.com/Smell-Nice

Don't eat certain foods. If you have body odor problems, avoid garlic, onion, cumin, fenugreek, curry, cheese, cigarettes, coffee, and anything else that smells. Your sweat glands will ooze sweat combined with these smells - stinky!

So no Greek or Italian or Indian prior to an intimate interlude?

[chef]

....hmmm??? I'm thinking...well, you could just make sure you are both eating the same thing or not.

Tough call, just watch the garlic and cheese....or eat lots of lemon or citrus afterward. It gets rid of smells when you rub your hands with it...could work on the rest of the body, I would think.

Regards,
Vicki

[Shana Moore]

I had read somewhere that eating sweet musky foods like figs and...um....my mind is ablank (at the moment, not in general)......it mentioned that these created pleasant body odors. It's a nice thought...but as it's the chemical properties of foods, not sure this is fact or pleasant fiction

But I like the idea of just making sure you both eat the same....but that's in part because I loooove garlic!

[tigereye]

So I've heard that the French and other cultures that eat a lot of garlic, sweat the scent of garlic when a lot is eaten.

...and when you eat certain foods, like asparagus, your urine reeks with an unpleasant odor.
Vicki

French considered to be the world's most famous cuisine.
The French food is full of flavor,keeps you healthy and slim.
Garlic can be find in many of the sauces but it's not used in abnormal portion.
Spicy dishes can always be modified to suit your tastes.
French are mostly eat plain vegetables or mixed salads with light vinegar-based dressing.
Roasted or grilled meat, and fish.
Most important herbs in the cuisine: thyme, sage, rosemary,
basil, savory, fennel, marjoram, tarragon, oregano, and bay leaf.
And they can wash of the garlic with the most delicious wine.

In my country people eat lots of vegetable and salads but no garlic.
We mostly taste like chocolate...or beer.

I love asparagus! I don't know how my urine taste or smells... I never tasted it.

[2Green]

When I was a kid/young adult there were four things I could not stomach:

Dill pickles.
Olives.
Canned carrots.
Tomato juice.

Now, I crave Dill pickles and eat them almost by the jar, and I smother my nachos in sliced stuffed pimentos and LOVE Greek black olives. ( Kalamata?)
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I have a theory which also explains why smells/tastes diminish in intensity with age.:

I think that the production of mucus steadily dulls the olfactory sensors as we age -- (you can only taste while exhaling through the nose, expcept for the basic sweet/sour/salt/bitters.)

So we prefer spicier foods as we age, because they are able to stimulate our olfactory/taste senses as when we were children, overcoming the dulled/coated olfactory sensors.

Just my theory.

~N~

[chef]

So what's the strangest thing you have ever eaten?

Regards,
Vicki

[Van Canna]

Crocodile

[Chris McKaskell]

Garlic ice cream.

The garlic was roasted, to bring out the sweet side of its character, then it was mixed into a vanilla recipe.

I expected to be repulsed, but it was suprisingly good!

I seem to recall having had chocolate covered ants as a kid, but the memory is too vague to count.

The ice cream I remember well and have had it few times since.

[Dale Houser]

How about a live cobra heart? Not me, but Anthony Bourdain, host of No Reservations did:

http://www.anthonybourdain.com/frame.asp?id=23

Excellent show, BTW.

Otherwise, I've had cow's tongue. Blech.

[Bill Glasheen]

Many people think the varieties of raw fish I eat (at sushi restaurants) are strange. Not I. I love the stuff. And if it's parasite free, it's good for you.

Mmm....

- Bill

[gmattson]

at a banquet in Fuzhou, RAT was one of the 15+ courses. The Vice Mayor was sitting next to me (he spoke English) and was smiling as I ate what I thought was a rather small rabbit!

I asked him what it was and he replied.. "Best you don't know":)

While in Taiwan in 1965 I sampled Cobra blood, mixed with a mild alcohol concoction. . . in a medicine stall. . .

Best you don't know the really weird stuff!