Timeline for Is wearing perfume in public transports or rooms bad in Japan?
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| Jan 22, 2020 at 19:48 | comment | added | Eriol | I've had the (dis)pleasure of having to line up with a horde of hundreds of thousands of Japanese in the blistering August sun, and later being packed tight into a building filled with them sweating after the quarter-day wait. Because I come from a hot Central American country I was used to the heat and prepared, but most people there couldn't help but sweat their life out. Most weren't considerate enough to pack scented wipes and deodorant like me either, so the smell of sweat was quite pungent after a few hours. | |
| Jan 21, 2020 at 16:03 | comment | added | CPHPython | @reirab I should have mentioned: "some plants that contain sulfur compounds when eaten raw or poorly cooked". Here's an explanation. | |
| Jan 21, 2020 at 15:48 | comment | added | reirab | @CPHPython Pungent plants seemed to be the norm in Korea, much moreso than in the West, aside from maybe Western vegetarians. At any rate, I don't think this answer really has anything to do with it. It's rude to wear strong perfume/cologne in public in North America, too. There are just more people here who don't care if they're rude or not than in Japan. | |
| Jan 21, 2020 at 15:06 | comment | added | CPHPython | @TomKelly do most Japanese people go to izakayas to eat their main meals everyday? I thought those were more like pubs, where people drink more than eat... | |
| Jan 21, 2020 at 15:00 | comment | added | CPHPython | @Babyburger When I was there I ate what most locals generally ate: noodles/rice with a bunch of vegetables and small pieces of meat/eggs. Rarely I saw people eating stake and believe it or not, western fast food chains were more expensive. Onions were normally not added and some restaurants had raw garlic on the tables to mix in the soup... I was one of the few who consumed them. | |
| Jan 21, 2020 at 14:07 | comment | added | Babyburger | @CPHPython Meat and onions build the daily meals in South China. This does not seem to be correct. | |
| Jan 21, 2020 at 13:48 | comment | added | Tom Kelly | @CPHPython Have you been to an izakaya? That's like the whole menu. | |
| Jan 21, 2020 at 11:56 | history | edited | fedorqui | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 21, 2020 at 10:45 | comment | added | CPHPython | Less apocrine sweat glands (present in armpits) may indeed be one reason, but diet may also have some impact, i.e. meat and pungent plants, such as garlic and onions, are not eaten in large quantities as in the western world. | |
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| Jan 21, 2020 at 3:43 | history | answered | mLstudent33 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |