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I find this really interesting, where in the world would it be considered bad form to sniff a tomatoe before purchasing?
by holografix 9y ago
I find this really interesting, where in the world would it be considered bad form to sniff a tomatoe before purchasing?
- jacquesm 9y agoWell, here in NL it certainly would if you went through a crate of tomatoes at the local supermarket and smelled all of them one-by-one.
- DonHopkins 9y agoYou've got two nostrils, so sniff them two at time and take half as long.
- jacquesm 9y agoThat got me laughing but being the serious kind I am now wondering if we're wired up in such a way that if one tomato is bland and the other is rich in smell that we can tell the two apart reliably enough to know which is which? I always think of us as having two eyes, two ears for stereo vision and sound but never think of us as having 'two noses' to determine the direction of a small or two different smells at the same time.
- raarts 9y agoI live in Amsterdam but I always try how strawberries smell before buying. And in my experience they smell the same if they come from true same batch so I only need to try once.