Comment on Would you eat 'honey' if humans spat phlegm on pollen and then dehydrated it?
Grabthar@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I can’t stand honey. It smells like when people sneeze, so I have never wanted to even taste it. So I guess bee phlegm and human phlegm smell the same to me?
AskewLord@piefed.social 5 days ago
you can smell sneezes? or taste them?
wild.
Grabthar@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The smell comes from a person’s saliva which often gets spewed into the air after a sneeze. The droplets hang in the air a long time. Some peoples’ sneezes have a sickly sweet odour that smells the same as honey to me. Other sneezes don’t smell like much of anything to me though. I don’t know if I’m smelling an infection byproduct, a food, or maybe a lack of hydration causing their saliva to have a strong smell, but it always smells the same to me. As for taste? I think I’d rather not explore that. I imagine it might taste like it smells, so like honey.
AskewLord@piefed.social 5 days ago
wild stuff.