I can confirm. My Thai wife can smell things that I cannot (no, not covid). When we first wed, her food handling was shocking. She grew up poor without refrigeration. In our kitchen: Me, "Is this OK?" She sniffs, either "Yes, you can eat it" or "No, throw that away." Long before it smells so bad that I don't need to ask.
I can confirm. My Thai wife can smell things that I cannot (no, not covid). When we first wed, her food handling was shocking. She grew up poor without refrigeration. In our kitchen: Me, "Is this OK?" She sniffs, either "Yes, you can eat it" or "No, throw that away." Long before it smells so bad that I don't need to ask.
Refrigerators are for drinks. you'll never see fish in a fridge. Because it's with fish that the preoccupation with freshness reaches its peak.
In preparing a big meal, it's only after everything else is steaming and ready to serve that the fish is killed and cooked; it lives in a pan of water up to the very last second.
Anyway. bigot (stage one above) would say, "see? they're more like dogs."
A Woke would scream "racism! There are no races! There are not differences!"
I say that there has been selection pressure because of the primacy of freshness (the word is everywhere here, t╞░╞бi). It's neither inferiority nor superiority, it just is.
I can confirm. My Thai wife can smell things that I cannot (no, not covid). When we first wed, her food handling was shocking. She grew up poor without refrigeration. In our kitchen: Me, "Is this OK?" She sniffs, either "Yes, you can eat it" or "No, throw that away." Long before it smells so bad that I don't need to ask.
Refrigerators are for drinks. you'll never see fish in a fridge. Because it's with fish that the preoccupation with freshness reaches its peak.
In preparing a big meal, it's only after everything else is steaming and ready to serve that the fish is killed and cooked; it lives in a pan of water up to the very last second.
Anyway. bigot (stage one above) would say, "see? they're more like dogs."
A Woke would scream "racism! There are no races! There are not differences!"
I say that there has been selection pressure because of the primacy of freshness (the word is everywhere here, t╞░╞бi). It's neither inferiority nor superiority, it just is.
I shrug.
Thank you for explaining that more.