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Audiophile

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I fucking hate beetroot.
I have a kind of unique angle on this..

When I was sick as a kid and on the childhood cancer ward with leukaemia they had some kids on a specific stem cell therapy and the preservative used for it during freezing was dimethyl sulfoxide, as a result the entire ward which I regularly spent 1-3 weeks on at a time smelt like beetroot. I literally can't be in the same house as the stuff without feeling queasy. I've had people open a jar on the other side of the house and I feel ill instantly nauseous without even knowing it's there.

What's really crazy is some folks experience the smell of this DMSO as garlic and some as creamed-corn; while others like me sense it as beetroot (I think there's some genetic variation in how we respond to the size of various molecules).
 
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EerieArcade

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I have a kind of unique angle on this..

When I was sick as a kid and on the childhood cancer ward with leukaemia they had some kids on a specific stem cell therapy and the preservative used for it during freezing was dimethyl sulfoxide, as a result the entire ward which I regularly spent 1-3 weeks on at a time on smelt like beetroot. I literally can't be in the same house as the stuff without feeling queasy. I've had people open a jar on the other side of the house and I feel ill instantly nauseous without even knowing it's there.

What's really crazy is some folks experience the smell of this DMSO as garlic and some as creamed-corn; while others like me sense it as beetroot (I think there's some genetic variation in how we respond to the size of various molecules).

Sorry to hear you went rough that, especially as a kid.

I'm the same. My mum loves the stuff. As soon as she opens a jar of the stuff I'm feeling sick.
 

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I recently finish eating a bag of delicious pretzels and of course I see an ad for the same exact brand on YouTube, only moments later. 🙄
 
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