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But plain rice is very delicious and yummy.
I think people are so used to dumping condiments on everything without thinking that their palettes have been descensitized to subtle flavours. The more you flavour something with salt, sugar or spice, the more you need to get the same satisfying hit on the tastebuds. A pinch enhances flavour...more than that sets you up for trouble.
I don't use salad dressing because I don't think raw vegetables and such need it...if I was making a particular salad like a Ceasar salad, then I'd make the dressing myself and cobble the entire thing together and enjoy ~ but I hate the way the pour white glop onto lettuce in restaurants so that it's drowning in the stuff. I generally judge an establishment on their Ceasar ~ and most do it very badly.
Smokers sense of taste and smell is pretty well dead ...although it can come back (my grandfather regained his in three years, after quiting a 50 year habit)....so they don't understand why people who don't smoke have runny noses and watery eyes around their lovely little habit.
I used to have a sign in my house that said something like this:
After a long day you like to enjoy a cigarette to relax and unwind. Smoking gives you pleasure. The result of your pleasure is smoke which in turn clings to my hair and clothes.
I too like to unwind at the end of a long day. I prefer to drink beer. Drinking beer gives me pleasure. The result of my pleasure is urine.
SO...if you don't mine me pissing on your hair and clothing, then I won't mind you smoking in my home.
*^___^* people got the point and always went outside for their ciggies. But thankfully 99% of the people I know now don't smoke at all anymore...becasue like you I can smell it miles away. I can smell it on used books I buy which is not uncommon but just goes to show how long it lingers.
I wonder if people know that when they return an item of clothing we've left behind at their home, and that they have kindly washed and folded before bringing it back to us, goes immediately into the wash because it reeks of smoke.
Until smoking was banned in bars here, my husband knew he had to strip when he came home, dump his clothes in the laundryroom and shower before he was allowed into bed. The smoke would cling to his pillow for days if he didn't...
Blech
As for myself....I'd get sinus infections if forced to spend more than a few minutes in a smoking environment. I have no patience for smokers who bitch to me about their rights to light up. It impacts my health in such a big way...and I'm not even asmatic! My entire family smoked until I left for uni and when I left they all up and stopped (which is great) but it went a long way to explain why I was so sickly for the first 20 year with endless colds without end and wretched allergies.
I remember the first time I tried MJ at uni...with my lungs fresh from a smokers house but NEVER having smoked myself I was able to draw it in deeply, hold it, blow smoke out my nose. Um....WTF? nary a cough or hiccup.!!?!?!?
Didn't think much of the substance and probably only tried it a few more times after that before getting bored, but I WAS impressed with what I learned....that yes...that is what second hand smoke does to a person. My lungs were conditioned to accept the chemical soup...even without a filter. GAH!
I think people are so used to dumping condiments on everything without thinking that their palettes have been descensitized to subtle flavours. The more you flavour something with salt, sugar or spice, the more you need to get the same satisfying hit on the tastebuds. A pinch enhances flavour...more than that sets you up for trouble.
I don't use salad dressing because I don't think raw vegetables and such need it...if I was making a particular salad like a Ceasar salad, then I'd make the dressing myself and cobble the entire thing together and enjoy ~ but I hate the way the pour white glop onto lettuce in restaurants so that it's drowning in the stuff. I generally judge an establishment on their Ceasar ~ and most do it very badly.
Smokers sense of taste and smell is pretty well dead ...although it can come back (my grandfather regained his in three years, after quiting a 50 year habit)....so they don't understand why people who don't smoke have runny noses and watery eyes around their lovely little habit.
I used to have a sign in my house that said something like this:
After a long day you like to enjoy a cigarette to relax and unwind. Smoking gives you pleasure. The result of your pleasure is smoke which in turn clings to my hair and clothes.
I too like to unwind at the end of a long day. I prefer to drink beer. Drinking beer gives me pleasure. The result of my pleasure is urine.
SO...if you don't mine me pissing on your hair and clothing, then I won't mind you smoking in my home.
*^___^* people got the point and always went outside for their ciggies. But thankfully 99% of the people I know now don't smoke at all anymore...becasue like you I can smell it miles away. I can smell it on used books I buy which is not uncommon but just goes to show how long it lingers.
I wonder if people know that when they return an item of clothing we've left behind at their home, and that they have kindly washed and folded before bringing it back to us, goes immediately into the wash because it reeks of smoke.
Until smoking was banned in bars here, my husband knew he had to strip when he came home, dump his clothes in the laundryroom and shower before he was allowed into bed. The smoke would cling to his pillow for days if he didn't...
Blech
As for myself....I'd get sinus infections if forced to spend more than a few minutes in a smoking environment. I have no patience for smokers who bitch to me about their rights to light up. It impacts my health in such a big way...and I'm not even asmatic! My entire family smoked until I left for uni and when I left they all up and stopped (which is great) but it went a long way to explain why I was so sickly for the first 20 year with endless colds without end and wretched allergies.
I remember the first time I tried MJ at uni...with my lungs fresh from a smokers house but NEVER having smoked myself I was able to draw it in deeply, hold it, blow smoke out my nose. Um....WTF? nary a cough or hiccup.!!?!?!?
Didn't think much of the substance and probably only tried it a few more times after that before getting bored, but I WAS impressed with what I learned....that yes...that is what second hand smoke does to a person. My lungs were conditioned to accept the chemical soup...even without a filter. GAH!