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