Garlic & Perfume: If You Can Smell It Yourself, You've had too much!

Motoring along in our garlic - mobile.

At least with perfume you can do the old spray it in the air & walk through trick, but even that has its downfalls. How long to linger in the mist being one of them...Oh and the upside of course is that you can have a shower and voila, it is gone.

If you had to be on a first date, I think that this must be one of the worst outcomes. Fresh garlic used moderately is pleasant and even medicinal. But, when you use too much garlic it gets to resemble that crushed garlic at the supermarket ( the one swimming in a bit of oil ), you know that more than a teaspoon of it spells trouble.

The four of us, our friends who are here on holiday and us, went to a Buschenschank last night. As couples, we have both been married for more than a handful of years. With that comes the permission to share your spouses food. Not the romantic hand-fed forks of tastes. No, this is basically taking your fair share of each others food. All four of us did that with our respective spouse's food.

We weren't very original either, as we ordered two ' baked potatoes with bacon & sour cream ' and two ' Holzhackerteller '. When you are hungry, it usually takes a few mouthfuls before you register the taste. Gosh, those delicate first few dinner dates with Bob are a vague and distant memory...
" My wive eats like a bird.... a vulture! "

It quickly registered with my taste buds, that garlic and loads of it, was involved. Oh dear! Between Bob and I, we shared the garlic laden sour cream equally. So did our friends. Not so much discomfort when you are sitting in the Restaurant.

But once we were back in our car motoring along with windows closed because it was too darn cold, we realized that we would be in for a turbulent night. Even the short drive to drop them off, made the interior smell like garlic central. The only lucky fish in the car was my friend's husband. Due to his sinus problem, he can't smell anything. Really. Sorry Bob, but your sinus is working fine...!

Is there anything worse, than having a strong taste of garlic in your mouth, and smelling garlic as you breath in and out? Even this morning I can still smell it. All I can hope for is that Bob remembered to open the window in the bedroom this morning.

There should be a warning on the menu: " This dish will not lead to anything romantic..."

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