I’m very sensitive to smells in microwaves, indeed I never used “work” microwaves in shared kitchens for this very reason.
We all would occasionally say to someone who was cooking particularly “pungent spicy ” food, my that ‘s a bit strong, but think no more of it. We certainly wouldn’t think that we would get sued for mentioning it.
It tended to be the teenage young men who particularly liked the supermarket bought curry who were the worse culprits as they very often didn’t clean the orange stains plastered to the sides and ceiling of the said microwave and worse the overspill onto the bottom of the microwave. Hence my reluctance to use the microwave.
Still the case in America was a bit different, the husband and wife involved in the case are both tertiary degree Anthropologists and part of the settlement was that they would be allowed to graduate from the University they sued as long as they promised not to return. Interesting request.
I think that to call it food racism is a a bit flavoursome, or just plainly wrong. I mean some people associate garlic with French cooking , but it’s in all sorts of cooking and anyway how about poor Anne of Cleeves who the Dogsbody Papers claimed used the smell of Garlic to put Henry “off” consumating her marriage to him when in fact it was he just didn’t fancy her. That Garlic story entered the realms of history and to this day some people still believe it.
Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏
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