Why do old people smell of cabbage?

[Haemorrhoid Graboid]

Is it because their soul is trying to leave their body before they die?

Wait a minute. There's something unusual about the subway seat you just claimed. It's awfully warm, and a peculiar odor seems to hover in the air nearby—a stale, musty odor tinged with something as acrid as mothballs. You know this aroma: it's "old person smell."

the unique scent of the elderly lingers wherever they live and in any confined spaces they have recently occupied, such as taxis and elevators. Many different cultures have recognized the phenomenon—the Japanese even have a word for it, kareishuu

[it's love]

引用自 tiny E：

引用自 mawi：

44 ?????m??

what does that mean?

her illusion that everyone on the internet is just as young as her was shattered so she had a seizure and died

[what the L 👤]

Lmao true.

I CANT BELIEVE THIS ajsjdjdkfkekdnxnsjs

[Grendalcat]

So THAT'S what that smell is.

The more you know.

[Ⓥenom Ⓢnake 🐍]

I don't smell like cabbage... I smell of old spice and rage. And rage has a pleasantly cinnamon smell.

[what the L 👤]

引用自 tiny E：

引用自 mawi：

Lmao true.

I CANT BELIEVE THIS ajsjdjdkfkekdnxnsjs

in fairness i act like i'm 12

Then I must be 2 😂😶

[Mr. Megidramon]

.... I have eaten/cooked alot of cabbage, and I can't say I have associated that smell with any old people I have been around.

What kind of old people do you hang around?

[Anasmi]

What are you talking about?
My dad is 75yo and the only smell I perceive of him, if I can smell anything at all, is his perfume or his shaving cream.
Idk, but I think you're being disrespectful.

[Haemorrhoid Graboid]

引用自 Anasmi：

What are you talking about?
My dad is 75yo and the only smell I perceive of him, if I can smell anything at all, is his perfume or his shaving cream.
Idk, but I think you're being disrespectful.

You're doing it wrong. You need to get close behind them and get a good huff with one finger up your nose.

引用自 Crazed Rabbit：

引用自 tiny E：

Forget why they smell like cabbage, I want to know why the OP is going around smelling old people.

smelling is my fourth most favourite thing to do to people, third is touching

Yeah it's the cool thing kids do these days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myPBMJ81Nk0

[Z]

I believe it depends on people lifestyle. I miss my late grandma. She really active even in her late 70. She never relax. Always have something to do and i notice she don't eat eat something unfresh and she always stay clean. I learn many old tip and trick from her. Even cooking recipes. She smell good even on her last day. I am not joking.

And i have one more grandmother left on my mum side. The last one. I actually glad i can help and get to know her more because she staying in my mum house. It's like my mum and her other siblings taking turn to take care of her. This one more interesting. She eat like young people but she don't have much teeth anymore. Juat soft food. I cannot wait to have some talk with her again. I hope i still got time before her time come. I want bath clean her body too when she dead. Hope i will be able to do that too. I did to all my late granparents. I learn a lot of thing. It'a really amazing. How we live, that how we going to die for sure.

[crgzero]

引用自 tiny E：

Forget why they smell like cabbage, I want to know why the OP is going around smelling old people.

This


And! I've never known any old people that smell like cabbage, I've known a few that smelled like bengay or some other analgesic for stiffness and arthritis.

[trousers]

My grandma went through four different smell stages; toffee, mothballs, farts, and dying.

Which is also a list of my favourite things.

[Doctor Go-Go]

I've heard this but I never noticed this. It's likely based on some old person that ate it a lot and smelled like it so it became a stereotype.

[trousers]

引用自 tiny E：

引用自 Hoarse：

My grandma went through four different smell stages; toffee, mothballs, farts, and dying.

Which is also a list of my favourite things.

mothballs are one of your favorite things?
you need to explain that one, never mind the fact that I didn't even know moths had balls.

If you cut them off and put them near your clothes, it warns them that you're not to be messed with.

[trousers]

引用自 tiny E：

引用自 Hoarse：

If you cut them off and put them near your clothes, it warns them that you're not to be messed with.

And if earwigs crawl into your ear, where do cockroaches crawl into?

The chicken coop.

[Watchful Liz]

引用自 tiny E：

引用自 Hoarse：

If you cut them off and put them near your clothes, it warns them that you're not to be messed with.

And if earwigs crawl into your ear, where do cockroaches crawl into?

Oh, oh! I know the answer! It's-

I'd rather not say. I might get hit with the Hat of Discipline...