also related: when Norway accepted refugees from Yugoslavia in the 90s, the smell of garlic on the school bus was overpowering.

we don't use garlic in traditional Norwegian cooking because you can't grow garlic here.

"why do they stink so much?"

later on: ah, the garlic.

one of my cousins is what you might call conventionally attractive, but she eats garlic as part of her self-care routine, so she's quite funky 😆 

 if you're from a garlic-eating country, you probably don't notice that everyone there stinks of garlic.

in early historical accounts of encounters between westerners and Arabs, they complained that we stink of milk.

me: milk has a smell?! 

 @c721880c see also: zankha
 https://www.reddit.com/r/arabs/comments/z2scyc/apparently_only_arabs_can_smell_zankha/

it's a smell of rotting meat on dishes that most western people cannot perceive 

 @dcba189c that's really interesting 

 not enjoying the garlic smell is racist 

 @StephanGuy isn't it a bit racist that people tend to not enjoy sex with other races? we've been around for 200,000 years and we continue to come in distinct shapes, sizes and colours.