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I thought that all Northern European food has been highly milk based for thousands of years, hence the Roman insult of "Butter eaters": https://www.atlasobscur
by helsinkiandrew 5y ago
I thought that all Northern European food has been highly milk based for thousands of years, hence the Roman insult of "Butter eaters":
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/history-of-milk https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/history-of-milk
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28532968 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28532968
- _xnmw 5y agoAlso: It was butter, the Japanese thought, which made Europeans so peculiarly rank: bata-kusai they called them (using the English word for the foul substance): “butter-stinkers." The terms Bata-kusai, “stinking of butter,” is still a derogatory term for things obnoxiously Western. > http://www.webexhibits.org/butter/countries-japan.html http://www.webexhibits.org/butter/countries-japan.html
- WalterBright 5y agoPeople smell like what they eat. People who eat the same stuff you do, don't notice that you smell.
- maxerickson 5y agoEuropeans also tend to have more apocrine sweat glands than Asians. https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/body-odor-asians-and-earwax https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/body-odor-asia...
- biofox 5y agoWell... now I feel extremely self conscious.
- loonster 5y agoI used to work with a very obese man doing blue collar work. When he sweats, he smelled like a deep frier.