| Can you smell a vegetarian?
Posted: 5/30/2009 5:32:47 PM | *** Dons gas mask and carefully walks into this thread with canary cage in hand *** 
I am of the belief "you are what you eat" 
I try to eat as healthy as possible and there is a lot of fruits and vegetables in my diet (right now preparing a chicken tikka dish with papaya on rice) 
I shower at least once a day (more in the warmer months).
I honestly don't know if you can "smell" a vegetarian, but I do know that I can smell some one who is a heavy drinker (it emanates from their pores), who smokes, and who basically has poor personal hygiene.
Now, about the "airbiscuits", I live alone and the adage "a skunk can't smell it's own hole" is basically true for me.... 
Now, the canary is starting to pass out... gotta go....  | |
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| Can you smell a vegetarian?
Posted: 9/5/2009 9:22:51 PM |
So if you can smell a vegetarian, then you would able to be able to smell a meat eater?
There was a recent (short-lived) thread and if memory serves correct , the OP said that she could smell a meat eater.
I changed my diet and consume less meat than I used to, so wonder if someone would notice if my odour has changed. | |
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| Can you smell a vegetarian?
Posted: 9/5/2009 9:55:40 PM | Some people would be able to, if they pay attention.
Can you notice the change in your personal scent?
I know I can, whenever I change my diet. For sure!
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| Can you smell a vegetarian?
Posted: 9/5/2009 10:03:05 PM | Fee fi foe fum, I smell the ____ of a vegetarian!
I've heard that dairy, or cow fat changes the scent of a person, and can be easily detected by people that don't consume beef.
I've also heard that cannibal's prefer to eat Orientals. I'm not sure if thats because Orientals taste better, or are not as tough to chew.
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| Can you smell a vegetarian?
Posted: 9/6/2009 9:50:07 AM |
Can you notice the change in your personal scent?
MN
If the question was posed to me, no I can not, and doubt I'd be able to discern a change if there was one, for I think the change would be gradual.
Is it not also true that generally people don't know what they themselves smell like? | |
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| Can you smell a vegetarian?
Posted: 9/6/2009 10:12:32 AM | If the question was posed to me, no I can't, and doubt I'd be able to discern a change if there was one, for think the change would be gradual.
Is it not also true that generally people don't know what they themselves smell like?
I don't generally notice my own smell, but I do notice it sometimes when I've been eating quite differently from usual recently. I'm not a vegetarian; I eat a pretty good balance of different things nowadays, and I notice the change in smell much more now than back in my younger and stupid days when I ate junk food. So I'm sure that what you eat not only affects what you smell like to others, but how you perceive their smell as well.
I also find that while I can't smell "myself" generally, I can smell my own hair quite easily for some reason. I sometimes notice it when I wake up in the morning after I've been letting the beard grow all weekend. It's really easy to catch if I ever burn or scald my hands (catching a bit of steam in the kitchen by accident, for example) Anyway, It's one of a few reasons I prefer to stay clean-shaven.
I can't tell what other people eat by the way they smell, but I can smell tobacco smoke at a distance of a hundred metres and booze is sometimes easy to pick up too. | |
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| Can you smell a vegetarian?
Posted: 9/6/2009 10:59:30 AM | ^^^TravellerSEB, you've been to quite a number of countries and exposed to so many cultures, you must have noticed the difference in the smell of the people of each place, no?
Maybe even your own scent ... but it takes weeks, sometimes months to clean our systems from the old diet.
It is said it takes 3 months for every cell in the bloodstream to be replaced with a new one,
6 months for the soft tissues and a whole year for a brand new skeleton!
MN | |
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| Can you smell a vegetarian?
Posted: 9/6/2009 12:10:44 PM | TravellerSEB, you've been to quite a number of countries and exposed to so many cultures, you must have noticed the difference in the smell of the people of each place, no?
You'd think so, but actually the places themselves smell way stronger than the people in them so it's hard to say. I most certainly do notice the different smells of cities, though, and most of them smell bad till you get used to them. Vancouver is relatively pleasant that way. Taibei reeks, Beijing smells like charcoal, most cities in Africa smell of wood smoke, and Kathmandu is just ungodly horribly polluted so smells of everything.
I do vaguely recall from way back in my early days in Hong Kong, when I first started dating my first girlfriend there, that she did have a bit of a sour smell different from what I was used to. I would never have noticed it in anyone I didn't get really close to, though.
but it takes weeks, sometimes months to clean our systems from the old diet.
Not everything takes the same nutritional path through your body. That's why you can smell booze on people - traces of alcohol come out in breath and sweat. The same must be true of some other chemicals, especially liquids. | |
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| Can you smell a vegetarian?
Posted: 9/6/2009 4:56:10 PM | ^^^^^^mm...if you could make it taste like chocolate,you would never have to ask  | |
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| Can you smell a vegetarian?
Posted: 9/6/2009 6:01:46 PM | i don't know about vegetarians...i dine only on dromedery...at high noon...in the desert
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| Can you smell a vegetarian?
Posted: 9/6/2009 7:36:45 PM | I was wondering how I get that lovely look that both Rumrummer and Worse are sporting. It is stunning. You ladies look wonderful and I want to be like the cool kids.
Addressing the question respectively - - - I think being a vegetarian is wonderful and wish I did not have the occasional meat attack, but, yes, here is the but: I know a vegetarian and I feel like throwing up when I see what that guy is eating. This leads me to ask why do some vegetarians eat repulsive things.
I have never been able to smell a vegetarian. Yes, I think we all know that we can smell the spices a person eats but surely this is not what the OP was getting at. | |
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| Can you smell a vegetarian?
Posted: 9/6/2009 8:56:30 PM | People who eat less meat tend to have a sweeter natural body odor...possibly because the lower levels of free radicals in their body, and other chemicals, created by the digestion of said meat...there are also medical conditions that cause people to smell differently, good or bad.
I have problems with digesting sugar properly (not sure exactly what the problem is, according to the doc there's nothing wrong with me like diabetes, but I occasionally have serious swings of extremely low blood sugar and pass out). My natural smell is very sweet, like cocoa butter or coconut oil is the best way to describe it...I suspect that sugar is being excreted in my natural oils and sweat
People with other digestive processing difficulties have been known to smell like maple syrup.
Some sufferers of schizophrenia can have a "barn yard" smell...not necessarily a bad smell, just a very strong musky odor that can be perceived as a bad smell by some | |
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| Can you smell a vegetarian?
Posted: 9/6/2009 9:21:17 PM | smartypants ^^^
have problems with digesting sugar properly (not sure exactly what the problem is, according to the doc there's nothing wrong with me like diabetes, but I occasionally have serious swings of extremely low blood sugar and pass out).
Sorry to hear that.
Has hypoglycemia been absolutely ruled out for you?
The pancreas is also involved in raising blood glucose levels if they fall too low. When blood sugar is low, the pancreas releases the hormone glucagon, which increases blood sugar by signaling the liver to convert stored carbohydrates into glucose and to create new glucose molecules from other substances (such as amino acids) in the liver. If these mechanisms don't work properly, the blood glucose remains too low and the brain won't be able to function normally.
http://bodyandhealth.canada.com/condition_info_details.asp?disease_id=73
Perhaps you are experiencing the early symptoms of a problem with liver or pancreas?
I am sending you best wishes for early diagnosis, and that it is treatable. | |
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| Can you smell a vegetarian?
Posted: 9/6/2009 9:33:02 PM | ^Thanks for the link and to smartypans the information. I am worried that I carry the barnyard smell but I am surrounded by animals.
hmmmmmmmmm -- -- well, I am a beauty too now. There are now three of us who have adopted this stylish trend.
You, too, should adopt it and wear it well in public when sniffing out vegetarians. | |
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| Can you smell a vegetarian?
Posted: 9/7/2009 12:12:59 AM | I am worried that I carry the barnyard smell but I am surrounded by animals
^^^^ no wonder! you are acting like a sheep, blindly following the leader?
Be an Individual, Jane. Bang on your own drum. Find your own niche!
And bathe often, thus secure in the knowledge your carnivorous body will
emit that self-proclaimed noxious odour at a minimum.
 happy being a misfit | |
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| Can you smell a vegetarian?
Posted: 9/7/2009 10:41:45 AM | Hey^I am not acting like a sheep. Who is the leader? Do you mean the fashionable people in this thread? Well, look at me now. In this case, I am happy to be a sheep.
Oh, believe me, I have my own niche and drum. No worry there. I bathe all the time. I only meat occasionally so I do not think I smell that bad. Still, I want to know what a vegetarian smells like and what a meat eater smells like.
To be honest, most people I encounter do not smell like much of anything to me unless they have gas. (I am so glad that the gas problem has been solved in the BC threads. Hugs to all the people  who cleaned up the threads.) We can all breathe a little easier. | |
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| Can you smell a vegetarian?
Posted: 9/8/2009 5:32:08 PM | wow! lighten up there miz fit to be tied! ...i think you might be taking all this a teensy weensy bit too seriously, ok?  oh sorry...i get i'd better excuse myself in advance for having a little fun..you should try it sometime, it will get rid of that SHRILL tone of yours (what a bore...) 
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| Can you smell a vegetarian?
Posted: 9/8/2009 6:16:40 PM | | BalledEagle...its definitely not hypoglycemia, as my sugar isn't running low at all times, most of the time its within a normal range...I've had multiple thyroid, fasting and in-symptom blood sugar/cholsterol/blood protein tests...all SEEMS to be fine...its been controlled with increases in complex carbohydrates and increased meal frequency, so it rarely occurs now, thank goodness | |
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| Can you smell a vegetarian?
Posted: 9/8/2009 6:57:59 PM | I find the whole subject of human scent very interesting, and I ain't talkin about air biscuits.
Mistress WorseThanEver you don't even read my messages; don't you love me anymore? | |
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| Can you smell a vegetarian?
Posted: 9/8/2009 7:05:24 PM | ^LOL - How come you call my friend mistress and me sweet lady?
You know the only way I think you could tell if somewhat just ate cow is if they rubbed the meat all over their skin. How can you smell what someone does not eat? This would be the case with vegetarians. You might be able to smell what people eat but I am not sure if you can smell what they do not. | |
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Posted: 9/8/2009 11:07:07 PM | Well I honestly don't have a clue where all you people have your noses when you try to pick up other peoples stench, butt, I can only guess.
That much for your own shiat not stinking...lol
being a mountianlion 'n all I can smell vegetarians cuz I gotta track 'em to kill and eat them, bamby, bullwinkle, lil miss piggy, even betsy the cow 'n lil 'ole black sheep.....
and yes, each of them lil critters have their own scent and their meat does often smell and taste like the grasses or herbs they most frequently eat....
but more seriously, from being around horses I can say for certain that each does smell like horse but also has a specific "personal" smell. So does other wildlife, from omnivorous bears to carnivores and the same holds true for people.
So my best guess on vegetarians would be that they too would only emit certain odours of certain food/herbs such as garlic, onions, curry etc. A non-vegetarian who would eat garlic, , onions, curry etc, would possibly emit the same or similar odour given a persons natural body odour is not taken into account.
Unfortunately that would be nearly impossible to do unless we apply some very sophisticated measuring devices to resolve the myth, - Myth Busters where are you????
IMHO this topic is about urban legend kinda stuff, every ones theory seems plausible....believe it or not.
For me, if I like the smell of a gal I may take a nibble even if she is vegetarian...no vegans, K! I mean 'cmon, she's gotta like a little meat now and then
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| Can you smell a vegetarian?
Posted: 9/9/2009 12:42:40 AM | Tooo-shay!(touche) there, worse-woman !!
It is a great deed that you do .... riding into the forums high
atop your camel-hump, spreading humour and wit.
I must find a better way to ease my own ... bountiful energy ....
Oft times, I just can not CONTAIN meself!
peace out ...  .... | |
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