Anosmia Foundation

A LIGHT-HEARTED LOOK AT ANOSMIA
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How to Have Fun with Anosmia

Be sure to make noises of disbelief when the car in which you are riding passes by a spot where a skunk/polecat was recently disposed of/killed/exhumed. "Hey, it can't smell THAT bad..."

Volunteer to be the one to buy meat and/or seafood from disreputable people selling food from the backseats of their cars on secondary roads. (After this, your friends will NEVER let you volunteer for anything again).

Smuggle Limberger cheese into the theatre; unwrap and eat during the pastry shop scenes in "Chocolat".

Allow your daughter to use you as a test subject when she goes shopping for new fragrances. (This is especially fun if you are a man...)

Announce to the household that you will clean out the cat litter ONLY when you can smell it.

Announce to the household that diapers/nappies will only be changed when you can smell it.

Carefully place a few eggs behind the refrigerator. (this is delayed action fun, as it will be a few weeks before the rest of the household takes notice.)

Call the gas company and tell them that the stove is leaking. (This is really fun when it turns out that you have an electric stove.)

Let the neighborhood wet dog inside on the same day that your mother is holding High Tea for the local bishop/vicar/dalai lama/pope.

Adopt a personal perfume all your own: I favor Papaya Pumpkin, myself.
by Kathryn http://personal.ecu.edu/wuenschk/AnosmiaFun.htm

Famous Anosmics:

William Wordsworth, Seventeenth century British poet
Bill Pullman, actor
Brian Mulroney, Canadian Prime Minister
Michael Hutchence, lead singer of rock band INXS
Ben Cohen, of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream.
The following is an interview from 08/23/01, with Ben Cohen & Jerry Greenfield, Founders of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream
DONALD VAN DE MARK, MYPRIMETIME.COM: Jerry made the ice cream but Ben would test all the new flavors because Ben has hardly any sense of smell.
JERRY GREENFIELD, CO-FOUNDER, BEN & JERRY'S: He was in charge for making ice cream, and for him to give me a taste of it, and I was supposed to be able to tell what flavor it was with my eyes closed, and usually I could never tell. He kept making me put in these bigger and bigger pieces of chunks.
BEN COHEN, CO-FOUNDER, BEN & JERRY'S: Jerry always wanted to make them smaller so that there would be better chunk distribution in each scoop, or in each pint, and I insisted that it was critical that the chunks be really, really huge. And he said, "but Ben, somebody might take a spoonful and they won't get a chunk at all." And I said, "that's OK, that's a sacrifice you have to make. It's worth it, for the big chunk they'll get in the next spoon."
http://www.nbr.com/transcript/2001/trnscrpt082301.htm

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