Polls: Food & Beverage

Elvers are baby eels that have just returned to the rivers from the sea. They were once a common dish in parts of the UK particularly along the river Severn. The normal way to eat them in the UK was to fry them alive in an omelette. Eels here, once abundant are now endangered and protected but some elver poaching still occurs. As I understand it only a few American states have an elver fishery.

So it's a food that's dying out and most of us will never have the opportunity to try them.

So here's a little riddle. Why, after I leave restaurants, do my pants almost always smell like perfume? Do you know? 'Cause I don't. (But I have a guess.)

I go out to restaurants, and I would say easily eight times out of ten, when I get home, change my clothes, and decide whether they are going to get temporarily aired out (I hang my clothes on a drying rack when I get home) and then later re-hung or folded to wear again, or put in the laundry hamper, I notice that my pants always pick up the smells of what was on the fabric seats or booth benches. Yeah, it's gross. It's always only on the... ass, the seat. Sorry if that's a bit TMI, but there ya go.

Do you ever notice this, smell this? Wanna' play a fun/not so fun game? Smell your pants when you get home. (Almost all my pants end up in the hamper, even if I only wore them for a couple of hours that evening at the restaurant and that's it.)

If it's a cheap place, it might smell like fried food (it's the oils that are so potent.) That's gross, but it makes sense.

If it's a nicer place, it'll smell like women's perfume, and occasionally men's cologne.

Have you seen anyone else spray themselves at a table? Do you do this? Or do the people you dine with do this? I really want to know what y'all are doing out there.

And no, it is not cleaner that the restaurant uses. It's definitely perfume. And it sticks in clothing because of the oils in perfumes, as opposed to disinfectants, body washes, etc.

I'm leaving the Anon option on this one, 'cause I really want your honest answers, thanks!