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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (17773)	2/18/1999 8:54:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 71178

>>>>>if garlic extends one's lifespan then the Korean fellow next to me would be immortal<<<<< One of my first jobs (1970 - I was eighteen) was working as a clerk at a health food store in Baton Rouge, my home town. Every so often, a group of Asian men would come to the store, flashing big rolls of cash, and buy a bunch of stuff, hundreds of dollars worth. Different groups, I think, I may have seen one of them more than once. They were crew on vessels that docked in Baton Rouge, and they took the taxi to the store, and stocked up on supplements and herbs. At that time, in the United States, very few people took supplements, there were the Right-Wing Preserve-Our-Bodily-Essence Little Old Lady in Tennis Shoes type, and the California fruit-nut-and-flake type. (Maybe some overlap here?) It wasn't the money that impressed me most, however, it was the way the men smelled, an incredible miasma of fish and garlic. I have a very sensitive sense of smell, for example, I can smell whether someone has been drinking from several feet away, and I can smell whether they did drink the night before. I don't know whether the men were South Korean or Japanese - - since we were at war with Viet Nam, I know they were not Vietnamese or mainland Chinese - - maybe Taiwan. I have read that to Asian people westerners smell like rotten meat and sour milk.