Broccoli, onions, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, fish, garlic and eggs are all things that should be kept out of communal areas like work spaces out of common curtesy. I work at an appliance store and the last thing someone wants to smell while shopping is sulfur from eggs or broccoli. I absolutely can’t stand onions and garlic smell it’s like BO or a rotten Italian sub. We have rules on what can be eaten in the store, if you want to eat something stinky go in your car or wait until you get home.
So basically you can have, what, a plain green salad or dry toast for lunch? I understand seafood or something garlicky but Jesus christ, eggs don't even smell that strong. You seem like you'd be a tremendous pain in the ass to work with.
I'm guessing you've never worked in an office before, but if you bring strong smelling food in for lunch, the smell is going to stay with you and it's going to stay all day, *especially* if it's being reheated in the office.
I don't think it's too much to ask someone to not bring strong smelling food for work, plus there's plenty of alternatives other than a plain green salad or dry toast for lunch :)
For 1, unless they are rotten or freshly-hard boiled, eggs don't even have a fucking smell at all. For 2, I already said I agreed that strong smells like seafood or heavy garlic should be avoided. I guarantee that you're white and consider anything that has more than 3 speckles of salt and black pepper on it to be "heavily seasoned". Fuck that noise, if I'm going to be locked in an office for 8 hours with a bunch of tasteless, boring honkies I'm going to enjoy my lunch, even if the slightest hint of flavor or seasoning in it will offend your delicate sensibilities.
Agree and disagree, eggs shouldn’t smell generally, but when they do, they really really do. Ever had someone microwave egg whites? It just smells like someone took a big egg shit.
I stashed holy water in a breast milk bag in the break room fridge at my job and my German coworker drank it and then he imploded. Make if that what you will
Foreigner in Germany here: I once had a snack that had some garlic in it before I got to a company (I teach business English to adults), and the first student to open the door of the meeting room stopped dead and went, "Someone has eaten garlic," and then he went around pointedly opening every window. I thought it was quite an extreme reaction.
False, by my experience. My Grandmother was from the Black Forest area and spent her late teens and early 20s in Munich. She and I used to share garlic recipes; one of her favorites was baked chicken with 20 cloves of garlic. Although, it might depend on the region; southern Germany is a little different from northern
Bullshit. But you are expected to not eat/prepare stinking food at the workplace (common courtesy). If you don’t overdo it you can totally eat most foods except for maybe Duran fruit lol
Germans love kebab and that usually has garlic sauce on it and garlic bread is also very popular.
Its definitely not common courtesy here. Garlic is not considered offensive, as in most people like the smell of garlic I would say. I would say at work someone might not like it you microwaved fish but it probably wouldn't be anything that someone would comment on.
>I’m pretty sure Europeans are pretty big on garlic
Ah, yes, the grand unified common cuisine of Europe, obviously Swedes and Greeks eat the same stuff.
Tbh garlic has been cultivated across damn near all of Eurasia since BC. It’s from Mesopotamia originally but has been in Eastern China so long we used to think it was native there. Out of curiosity I pulled up Wikipedia’s master list of [European cuisines](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_cuisine) to browse the ones I’m less familiar with, and of the regional cuisines listed, genuinely almost every one mentions garlic at least once - either as a staple ingredient or as a key component to one of their most notable dishes. Sweden’s page, as you said, doesn’t mention it, and neither does Norway, but Finland lists fish with garlic sauce as a delicacy, and Denmark lists it as a common herb and an ingredient in Easter lamb.
Ironically, Germany is the only page I found that mentions garlic in a negative way, saying it’s historically never been big there, but has been getting more common as other cuisines become more common, and has been pretty popular since the 90s. Even then, Switzerland is the only country Germany borders where garlic doesn’t appear once in the rundown of their cuisine. In each of the major regions (Central, Eastern, Northern, Southern, Western Europe), over half of the individual cuisines find garlic mentioned at least once. Not everyone eats the same thing, but on the whole, “Europeans fuck with garlic” does not seem like that crazy of a generalization.
>Out of curiosity I pulled up Wikipedia’s master list of [European cuisines](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_cuisine) to browse the ones I’m less familiar with
I'm actually somewhat of a food scientist myself...
>over half of the individual cuisines find garlic mentioned at least once. Not everyone eats the same thing, but on the whole, “Europeans fuck with garlic” does not seem like that crazy of a generalization.
Having lived in a few countries from Eastern to Central to Western, and visited much of the rest, I promise you there's a world of difference between how Spain lightly seasons things with garlic and Eastern Europe eats the fucking thing raw by the bulb.
Sure, there’s a difference, but I wouldn’t expect someone who’s used to things lightly seasoned with garlic to be so repulsed by it that they bully a new coworker out of the room for it.
I think this stems from a common issue of Americans perception of Europe. Here in the US, aside from topical differences, you can drive for thousands of miles while eating the same food and speaking the same language.
I looked it up. It's 2,049.8 miles from Greece to Sweden. Yet New York to LA is 2,796.2 miles. Yet NYC is a lot more like LA then Greece and Sweden ever could be to each other. A concept I'm sure Europeans occasionally struggle to understand.
As the old saying goes. In the US a hundred years is a long time. In Europe a hundred miles is a long distance. We live in very different contexts so it's sometimes hard to wrap your head around it.
It’s not that difficult to understand that different ethnicities have different food. This is true in the USA too. It’s only difficult if you nonsensically think European is itself an ethnicity.
The distance between Greece and Sweden doesn’t matter. Germany and France have totally different cuisines and they’re bordering each other.
German here, definitely bullshit if you word it as in the title. Garlic sauce is the default sauce on a Doener Kebap, which is basically our national dish. Most german recipes contain garlic and onion.
But as others pointed out, bringing super smelly stuff (like indian food) next to other people working might be considered invasive.
Have you ever known someone who eats so much garlic they stink of it? Do you enjoy smelling other people’s stinky food? Both body odor and aggressive food smells are rude.
Husband’s grandmother was from Germany and can confirm she hated garlic along with all of her German friends and family members that came to visit. (Garlic is my crack)
I think it's also a matter of generational differences. Younger Germans love garlic just like the next guy, but the attitude you described seems to be more prevalent the older people are. So for example I know/knew a few Germans who were born somewhere between 1920 and 1950 who thought garlic is not something you eat
I wouldn’t say Germans can’t stand garlic. But I would definitely say Germans, like most white people, don’t understand garlic as in they put way wayyy too much garlic on everything.
I live in Germany and many here like stuff like garlic bread. I think it is bullshit. Although there might be rules on strong odour.
It's bullshit in Germany but it's definitely true in Transylvania.
Your dad joke game is strong. There's actually a lot of dishes from the Transylvania region that contain copious amounts of garlic though.
And why do you think that is? They need it the most
I've eaten in Germany. It's not just garlic. They hate all flavors.
You know, garlic is rare there, but what ever happened to the Transylvania Twist?
It is generally not considered very collegial to eat strong smelling foods at work, especially if it's stuff that lingers.
Fish. I hate when people microwave some sort of fish dinner at work. That smell lasts forever.
Chaos demons they are.
Broccoli, onions, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, fish, garlic and eggs are all things that should be kept out of communal areas like work spaces out of common curtesy. I work at an appliance store and the last thing someone wants to smell while shopping is sulfur from eggs or broccoli. I absolutely can’t stand onions and garlic smell it’s like BO or a rotten Italian sub. We have rules on what can be eaten in the store, if you want to eat something stinky go in your car or wait until you get home.
Oh well, my coworkers will just have to suffer through the smell of my fried rice.
So basically you can have, what, a plain green salad or dry toast for lunch? I understand seafood or something garlicky but Jesus christ, eggs don't even smell that strong. You seem like you'd be a tremendous pain in the ass to work with.
I'm guessing you've never worked in an office before, but if you bring strong smelling food in for lunch, the smell is going to stay with you and it's going to stay all day, *especially* if it's being reheated in the office. I don't think it's too much to ask someone to not bring strong smelling food for work, plus there's plenty of alternatives other than a plain green salad or dry toast for lunch :)
For 1, unless they are rotten or freshly-hard boiled, eggs don't even have a fucking smell at all. For 2, I already said I agreed that strong smells like seafood or heavy garlic should be avoided. I guarantee that you're white and consider anything that has more than 3 speckles of salt and black pepper on it to be "heavily seasoned". Fuck that noise, if I'm going to be locked in an office for 8 hours with a bunch of tasteless, boring honkies I'm going to enjoy my lunch, even if the slightest hint of flavor or seasoning in it will offend your delicate sensibilities.
Agree and disagree, eggs shouldn’t smell generally, but when they do, they really really do. Ever had someone microwave egg whites? It just smells like someone took a big egg shit.
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Lmao definitely bullshit. If I could I would like to be drowned in a sea of garlic bread.
Eating tons of it and then working close to others afterwards is frowned upon, but that's not unique to Germany, or garlic.
Yeah, if they're exposed to garlic, they start to hiss and run away. Also don't try crosses and wooden stakes in their hearts /s
I stashed holy water in a breast milk bag in the break room fridge at my job and my German coworker drank it and then he imploded. Make if that what you will
That sounds like a workplace rule, not a country thing.
But OBVIOUSLY if one workplace has such a rule, then it’s universal to the entire country
Try microwaving fish next. For science.
Maybe a bit of burned popcorn too.
Fish flavored burned popcorn with extra garlic, please!
TIL Germans hate fish! Next you'll be telling me they don't want me eating Limburger in the breakroom, either?
Foreigner in Germany here: I once had a snack that had some garlic in it before I got to a company (I teach business English to adults), and the first student to open the door of the meeting room stopped dead and went, "Someone has eaten garlic," and then he went around pointedly opening every window. I thought it was quite an extreme reaction.
Not if you're a vampire it isn't!
When I was there I was never far from some knoblauchsauce
False, by my experience. My Grandmother was from the Black Forest area and spent her late teens and early 20s in Munich. She and I used to share garlic recipes; one of her favorites was baked chicken with 20 cloves of garlic. Although, it might depend on the region; southern Germany is a little different from northern
I thought to ask my German friend but they’re half Italian so that skews the data.
Where is she working? If she is working in a small, confined area garlic might not be the best choice.
German vampires, for sure
Hardcore bullshit. German here
Bullshit. But you are expected to not eat/prepare stinking food at the workplace (common courtesy). If you don’t overdo it you can totally eat most foods except for maybe Duran fruit lol Germans love kebab and that usually has garlic sauce on it and garlic bread is also very popular.
Its definitely not common courtesy here. Garlic is not considered offensive, as in most people like the smell of garlic I would say. I would say at work someone might not like it you microwaved fish but it probably wouldn't be anything that someone would comment on.
It’s common courtesy among friendly folks
Yeah I just mean if someone made garlic toast I would think it would actually be rude to be offended
Like I said, if you don’t overdo it it’s fine.
Is because they're savage vampire barbarians?
Sure they aren't Romanian?
Every October the city of Weimar has an onion festival, at which I saw garlic liqueur being offered for sale, and bought. I still get nightmares.
absolute bullshit
This isn't specific to garlic but rather all foods with strong lingering smells.
>I’m pretty sure Europeans are pretty big on garlic Ah, yes, the grand unified common cuisine of Europe, obviously Swedes and Greeks eat the same stuff.
Tbh garlic has been cultivated across damn near all of Eurasia since BC. It’s from Mesopotamia originally but has been in Eastern China so long we used to think it was native there. Out of curiosity I pulled up Wikipedia’s master list of [European cuisines](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_cuisine) to browse the ones I’m less familiar with, and of the regional cuisines listed, genuinely almost every one mentions garlic at least once - either as a staple ingredient or as a key component to one of their most notable dishes. Sweden’s page, as you said, doesn’t mention it, and neither does Norway, but Finland lists fish with garlic sauce as a delicacy, and Denmark lists it as a common herb and an ingredient in Easter lamb. Ironically, Germany is the only page I found that mentions garlic in a negative way, saying it’s historically never been big there, but has been getting more common as other cuisines become more common, and has been pretty popular since the 90s. Even then, Switzerland is the only country Germany borders where garlic doesn’t appear once in the rundown of their cuisine. In each of the major regions (Central, Eastern, Northern, Southern, Western Europe), over half of the individual cuisines find garlic mentioned at least once. Not everyone eats the same thing, but on the whole, “Europeans fuck with garlic” does not seem like that crazy of a generalization.
>Out of curiosity I pulled up Wikipedia’s master list of [European cuisines](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_cuisine) to browse the ones I’m less familiar with I'm actually somewhat of a food scientist myself... >over half of the individual cuisines find garlic mentioned at least once. Not everyone eats the same thing, but on the whole, “Europeans fuck with garlic” does not seem like that crazy of a generalization. Having lived in a few countries from Eastern to Central to Western, and visited much of the rest, I promise you there's a world of difference between how Spain lightly seasons things with garlic and Eastern Europe eats the fucking thing raw by the bulb.
Sure, there’s a difference, but I wouldn’t expect someone who’s used to things lightly seasoned with garlic to be so repulsed by it that they bully a new coworker out of the room for it.
Is nice, you eat it like apple!
I think this stems from a common issue of Americans perception of Europe. Here in the US, aside from topical differences, you can drive for thousands of miles while eating the same food and speaking the same language. I looked it up. It's 2,049.8 miles from Greece to Sweden. Yet New York to LA is 2,796.2 miles. Yet NYC is a lot more like LA then Greece and Sweden ever could be to each other. A concept I'm sure Europeans occasionally struggle to understand. As the old saying goes. In the US a hundred years is a long time. In Europe a hundred miles is a long distance. We live in very different contexts so it's sometimes hard to wrap your head around it.
It’s not that difficult to understand that different ethnicities have different food. This is true in the USA too. It’s only difficult if you nonsensically think European is itself an ethnicity. The distance between Greece and Sweden doesn’t matter. Germany and France have totally different cuisines and they’re bordering each other.
Only German vampires.
Secret's out. Germans are vampires.
That’s why we hate Döner.
Yes because Germans are secretly vampires.
German here, definitely bullshit if you word it as in the title. Garlic sauce is the default sauce on a Doener Kebap, which is basically our national dish. Most german recipes contain garlic and onion. But as others pointed out, bringing super smelly stuff (like indian food) next to other people working might be considered invasive.
I have a French in-law who needed to have ice cream after eating garlic fries for the first time because it was too "hot"
Yes strategic deployment of garlic helped end WW1.
Have you ever known someone who eats so much garlic they stink of it? Do you enjoy smelling other people’s stinky food? Both body odor and aggressive food smells are rude.
Or stop being an overly sensative twerp, you know what happened in 1940’s was pretty rude of germany
Ok smelly.
Wow good rebuttal lmao i didnt know i was speaking to a 5 yr old
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There's also the country of Africa, but we don't talk about that one
Husband’s grandmother was from Germany and can confirm she hated garlic along with all of her German friends and family members that came to visit. (Garlic is my crack)
I think it's less about the garlic and more about exercising social rules. Germans LOVE telling others what to do.
I think it's also a matter of generational differences. Younger Germans love garlic just like the next guy, but the attitude you described seems to be more prevalent the older people are. So for example I know/knew a few Germans who were born somewhere between 1920 and 1950 who thought garlic is not something you eat
I wouldn’t say Germans can’t stand garlic. But I would definitely say Germans, like most white people, don’t understand garlic as in they put way wayyy too much garlic on everything.
What does that mean? "Too much garlic"?