Why does every vegetarian I know smell like patchouli?

[arbusto_baboso]

Yeah, I know it's a stereotype. But it seems like every vegetarian in my world smells like pathcouli oil all the time. Why?

Is it just my misperceptions, or are all the veggies I know in some kind of strange Cult of the Carrot? (I realize not all vegetarians will smell like patchouli, but it's an awful big coincidence to me...)

[Roon]

1. I used to wonder why dead heads smell like patchouli

eom

[arbusto_baboso]

2. In the case of Deadheads, it's to uh, cover up other smells.

That seems self-evident.

[LeftyFingerPop]

4. Just because I almost never change my socks does not mean that I smell.

[Roon]

18. That's what I was afraid of.

I was never more than a half hour drive to a dead show until i flew out to see them in long beach cali...Three days....three shows...sleeping in a car..OMG!!!

[sipping radicchio]

3. I'd rather smell like incense than dead flesh...

(I'm kinda sorta wacky that way...)

[arbusto_baboso]

5. Well, given THAT choice....

Yeah, I gotta agree with you.

[sipping radicchio]

9. I don't seek out patchouli incense, anyhow...

I burned musk this morning:)

[arbusto_baboso]

11. That's much preferable, actually.

For me, anyway.

[flvegan]

6. Sorry, but we can't tell you.

It's part of the "secret society" rules, you know.

[arbusto_baboso]

8. Aw, c'mon, even the Freemasons reveal their handshakes now.

Or are you still trying to keep things on the down-low like the mormons do with their temple hokey-pokey?

[jeff30997]

10. Cool !

Do you also have a secret handshake ? :)

[jobycom]

39. Idiot.

There's no secret society, folks. flvegan was just being silly. Move along, don't waste another thought on the matter. No secret society.



(What do you want us to do, have to change the password again?)

[JitterbugPerfume]

7. I love the smell of patchouli

It reminds me of----well, never mind

[jeff30997]

12. Can you be more specific please ?

Do you like that smell only in the morning ? :)

[JitterbugPerfume]

13. vague memories of partys , concerts and

being young and a bit careless, but I don't regret one bit of it

[Roon]

19. patchouli floods me with memories too

That is why I don't buy..when on the rare occasion that i smell it, I take a trip down memory lane...(god i am sounding more and more like an old man)

[yellowdogintexas]

28. patchouli gives me migraine headaches nt

[Midlodemocrat]

14. Because all the cool ones are friends of mine. You got stuck with the suck.

Sorry.

No, wait. I'm not.


:P

[jeff30997]

15. Hello oh Glorious persecuted one !

Does the shoulder and neck massage deal still stand ? :P

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x8794972#8795339

[Midlodemocrat]

16. If you moved here and agreed to give me neck and shoulder massages

in perpetuity, I would hand you the keys and the pink slip to the MidloVan.

THAT's how badly my neck is fucked. Seriously. Shoulders are like rock. Neck doesn't move normally. All from whiplash 25 years ago. You remember whiplash? How people said it didn't exist?

I'm living proof it does. And the treatment for it blows.

[jeff30997]

17. Yeah,I remember the whiplash thingy.

It must hurt like hell.My younger sister had an injury to the neck (the cervical vertebrae)

some years ago when she was a gymnast.:(

The only thing that helps is mostly massage but she now lives a long 9 hours drive from

here and I can't help her with my expert hands except when she's visiting us.

I guess there will be no MidloVan for me. :)

[Midlodemocrat]

20. Well, you might be able to redeem yourself.

Where in CA do you live? If you live in Vancouver and can snag me a pic of Jared and Jensen, the stars of Supernatural, we will call it even.

:rofl:

I should probably ask yvr, too.

[jeff30997]

23. Oh boy.

I probably live closer to your place than Vancouver.Look completely east of the country but

before Newfoundland.

I'll try a virtual massage:



How am I doing ? :D

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

24. +1

[Left Is Write]

21. I have no idea. My sister has been a vegetarian since 1978 and has never smelled like patchouli.

Likewise, my mother, who was vegetarian for twenty years, never smelled like patchouli.

I can't think of anyone I know who smells like patchouli. :)

[ThomCat]

40. I've been a vegan for 2 decades and I've never smelled like Patchouli either.

I'm not even sure what Patchouli smells like. :shrug:

I guess I don't spend enough time around the right vegetarians. :P

[mentalsolstice]

22. Yoou've gotta be in the right frame of mind for patchouli

Sometimes it annoys the hell out of me, and other times I get a small whiff and I'm taken on a magic carpet ride.

[Jamastiene]

25. Better yet, why do you smell every vegetarian you know?

:rofl:

:evilgrin:

:hide:

[jobycom]

35. There's a spray smilie.

:spray:

[siligut]

26. Lush has Karma a lovely citrus and patchouli scent.

It is a vegan product as many Lush products are. Perhaps, there is a connection?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

27. Every vegetarian you know goes to the same organic market...

which smells like patchouli. The scent permeates their clothing, their skin, and the foods they buy there. When you smell it, you want to
join them
join them
join them
join them
The Cult of the Carrot welcomes you with open arms which smell like patchouli
join them
join them
join them
join them
:hippie::hippie::hippie::hippie::hippie:

[Enrique]

29. they use it to mask the smell of their lentil farts

:hide:

[Dystopian]

30. This is funny...or maybe not.

I'm a vegetarian, I wear patchouli. I never knew it was a known vegetarian fragrance.:shrug:
A little preschool girl asked me this year,,"Miss K, what do you smell like?"
I replied, "What do you think I smell like?"
She got closer, sniffed, looked up at me with those sweet eyes, and answered, "Dirt?"

Gotta love kids!

peace~

[Deep13]

31. Um, because vegitarians don't just eat weeds.

My understanding is that the patchouli smell is a clever disguise that everyone knows about for marijuana smoke.

[yewberry]

32. California thing, I think.

We're normal people in the rest of the country, except when we're defending our right to eat what we like.

Then we get all musky.

[LeftyMom]

37. I don't smell like that.

At the moment I probably smell like eau de activist or something because I was out at the marriage equality rally and it was hot, but I never, ever smell like patchouli. And I'm a third generation California native.

[ghostsofgiants]

33. They're probably all fuckin' hippies.

I know a lot of vegetarians and vegans who aren't fuckin' hippies and they don't smell like patchouli.

[LeftyMom]

34. Apparently all the vegetarians you know are hippies.

:shrug:

[jobycom]

36. I'm vegetarian, and I don't smoke that stuff.

Still should be legal, though.

[SoxFan]

38. Take a bath, you damn dirty hippies!

[Sisaruus]

41. I was asked to stop wearing it....

when I worked in a congressional office (a very progressive congressman). This was about 30 years ago. They were polite about it but they said that it made me smell like I'd been smoking pot.

[Dogtown]

42. reefer

all of us smoke reefer.

smoke enough bud, even tofu is yummy...


:smoke:

[JVS]

43. Because you know a bunch of stinking hippies.

[old mark]

44. Hitler was a vegetarian, and I bet he didn't smell like patcholuli...nt