October 24, 2002 at 12:00 am
#15654
Libby
Member
It’s not really a case of bathing or not. When you eat a lot of cumin and garlic and onion, it comes out when you sweat. Then the cumin and garlic odor it will start to permeate your clothes. Americans are obsessed with cleanliness so we wash our clothes daily, but other cultures (and older and poorer Americans) wash clothes less often. As a side note, when I was younger I could not stand talking to white kids after lunch because they smelled like spoiled milk. I never drank milk because I wasn’t raised that way, so I found the odor revolting.
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