he made you sit at the island?
put him on the back porch
No-it was my choice-he never understood why I did that, because his sense of smell was not offended by the odors of kimchee or fish sauce-or any other food, no matter how smelly it was. Like many country people, I will eat just about anything fresh-brains w/scrambled eggs, barbacoa, menudo, grilled rattlesnake, mountain oysters, even most odoriferous cheese-but if it has a rotted/fermented smell, there is no way I’m touching it.
I almost offended a Japanese neighbor of mine when she gifted me with a container of homemade soybean curd. She explained that it was for spreading on crackers, etc, as I opened the container, she was explaining how many weeks it had been fermenting-the smell would have gagged a hungry raccoon-it was all I could do to not gag as I thanked her and replaced the lid. MrT5 ate the stuff-said it was delicious...