Topic: What's the worst food to eat before a dance?

[John Gimber: Webmaster]

We've all had one of those dances with a partner who has bad breath... often caused by food!

So what are your top "hates" that your dance partners eat before a good bop then?

Add extra suggestions too, and I'll add them to the poll!

John.

[Elaine]

Any strong smell from any part of the body is yuch!  At least with the breath you can turn your head away!  But if your partner has onion  pervading from every pore, it means a quick wash and another spray of perfume before returning to the dance floor!

Booker T and the green onions anyone? 


Elaine

[philsmove]

I knew someone who believed in eating raw garlic when he had a cold

[John Gimber: Webmaster]

I worked for about 4 months in Korea, which was really interesting.  One day the Koreans were being very helpful and decided to buy me dinner, so I sat down to a meal of raw garlic, raw green chilli peppers, and raw red chilli peppers with a side-bowl of raw onion and another of Kimchi* with various hot spicy dips.  Very nice from their perspective, and just to be "Western" for me, they gave me coca cola to wash it down with (the combination was... indescribable, and thankfully the memory is blurring with time).

I honked for weeks.

Oddly enough, that was before my dancing days when I still had a phobia about dance, but even then all the Koreans I worked with called me "DZ", which is the name they have for their version of Fred Astaire, because they all throught that I looked like a dancer and acted like a gentleman.

Funny the way life goes.

John.

* Kimchi (pronounced kim-she) is a form of cabbage wrapped up and pickled in pepper and red spices, thrown into a pot, and buried in the garden for 3 months plus to stew.  When it comes out it has the ability to make your breath so powerful you could strip varnish off a door from ten paces.  Quite tasty though.

[ClaireLSt]

hey john.. kimchi: is it about like piccalili without the mustard?  nice!

[John Gimber: Webmaster]

Kimchi will rock your world when you taste it fresh.

It rocks to the left, rolls to the right, but eventually you get your feet again.

[ClaireLSt]

it's like 'live' vegetarian food, right? come on then, make some ready for the  next elmgrove and put it to the test! 

[John Gimber: Webmaster]

I get the feeling that if I did start serving up Kimchi to the dancers that I'd be charged with GBH of the lower intestine... a day or so later... 

In actual fact, Korea has (I think) one of the highest rates of bowel cancer in the world, due to the ahhhhh interesting diet they have.

Some days when I was working there I'd hear these loud bangs from the toilets and long, drawn-out screams...  I never did pluck up courage to ask what on earth was happening.

I get the feeling the noises were down to the diet... 

John.

[She Ra]

Any strong smell from any part of the body is yuch!  At least with the breath you can turn your head away!  But if your partner has onion  pervading from every pore, it means a quick wash and another spray of perfume before returning to the dance floor!

I cannot stand those that stink of fast food - that fry-up greasy smell that comes from the local kebab or fish & chip shop that penetrates clothes - YUK!