I have a coworker who occasionally brings her pet sugar glider, Lulu, to work (I work at a pretty cool company). Back when I was pregnant one of the few things that I could keep down despite all the nausea was a peanut butter sandwich…
The other day I fixed one of my favorite (and therefore fattening) pasta dishes: garlic alfredo chicken. Now, I have to admit that garlic is one flavor that I can’t exactly smell or taste, but eat anyway for its supposed health benefits (that and the rest of the family seems to enjoy a lot of garlic). As a breastfeeding and anosmic mom, I was curious what effect, if any, this would have on my breast milk…
Kellogg recently (and voluntarily) recalled select batches of Fruit Loops, Honey Smacks, Apple Jacks, and Corn Pops due to a reported “off” smell and taste from the package’s inner lining…
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged here mainly due to two major life changes: (1) we had a baby, and (2) we bought a house.
And in that time frame I’ve encountered many a topic to blog about here at NeverSmell…all relating to smells or not smelling (and with a newborn…you can imagine!). Today’s topic will hopefully begin a series of topics around how an anosmic discovers when something goes bad (since we can’t smell when something goes bad), a blog series inspired by cleaning out my fridge before moving to a new house.
And so…
I haven’t updated this site in a while for one major reason; I’ve been quite sick. But don’t worry—I’m not contagious and I didn’t eat something that had “turned” (and Lord knows how often that happens!). Simply put, I’m pregnant and experiencing what approximately 80% of pregnant women experience: nausea.
I’ve decided that I don’t rant enough here at NeverSmell, so here’s a little rant on why I hate oatmeal.
You’ve heard me talk here before about how anosmics tend to taste by texture, often preferring some foods over others based on a food’s “mouth-feel” (to borrow a term from Fast Food Nation). Well, oatmeal is one of those foods where getting the meal past my tongue is very very difficult. And if I may be blunt…
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything toilet-related here at NeverSmell (you might have noticed by now that I’m not exactly what you would call “genteel”), so I thought I’d start the Monday morning off right by talking not only about the smell of one’s urine, but the smell of one’s urine AFTER eating Asparagus. And I’m ratting out all the family members with this one, so hold on tight…this is going to be a two-flusher!
As the last article mentioned, my husband and I recently took a Caribbean cruise out of San Juan. And I have to say, it wasn’t very long before I was asking all kinds of people to describe how something smelled, most namely San Juan’s air…
Heather Ackmann was born without a sense of smell (congenital anosmia) and constantly finds herself explaining all kinds of strange things to strangers, like eating habits, whether she uses deodorant, and whether she can "smell this." She built this website for the curious who are afraid to ask, and for the afflicted who love to share. You can read more about me here