B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for May 29, 2021

But ALWAYS eat a garlic sandwich before vampire hunting. ;)

Also best to avoid those before going to any parties.

Great! That’s what he’s telling me NOW!

I had onions for lunch once and regretted it until I could escape the mask again.

These days masks are required everywhere.

I would think that eating a garlic sandwich at the event when wearing a mask would be much harder. By the way, is it possible to smell garlic breath from somebody masked standing 6 feet away? Presumably you’re masked too.

But if you do, no one will want to “borrow” your mask for days afterwards.

Never take any wooden nickels and don’t step on Superman’s cape.

You don’t tug on Superman’s cape,You don’t spit into the wind,You don’t pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger,And you don’t mess around with Jim.

I once grabbed a bag of White Castles for a drive home for Thanksgiving. Bad idea when the weather dictates the windows be kept up.

Never eat a garlic sandwich. (or onion or liver)

garlic sandwich…especially combined with one of those sodas that make you burp!

Does this mean that the market for garlic-laced toothpaste will evaporate?

Why is Curls drawn so big?

Strange… the inside of ALL of my masks have a terrible odor, even the new ones! What are the odd that they would all be defective? …Why are you all looking away uncomfortably…?

onions, the bane of a person on blood thinners.

A firm grasp of the obvious.

But bacon….The wife and I were out the other day, stopped for a couple of hot dogs. When I got in the car later in the day, the odor of onions and mustard was wonderful, like a deli.

I sneezed in my mask a couple of times. Assumedly, the mask did it’s job of keeping other people safe but I learned to carry two masks.

Asphyxiated by ones own self…

Mask mandates have been lifted and I will not patronize a business that continues trying to rule us by fear.

Sage advise.

Dunno. I’ve developed a taste for garlic-cheese bread on my bowling days. The bread is a good source of carbohydrates. Nobody’s mentioned anything, though maybe they’re polite. But I do brush teeth after each meal, so maybe the toothpaste odor covers it up.

I like food with garlic, I like food with onions. I don’t like events that require masks. That makes it easier.

Never eat a garlic sandwich—he could have stopped right there.

Or eat raw Kale. I speak from experience.

I like garlic, onions and limburger cheese. Often eat onions raw. Once years ago, when I was single that came up in a group I said: “Maybe I’d like a garlic, limburger and onion sandwich.” A very shy woman there immediately said “No wonder you live alone.” and then apologized profusely . Once I recovered from laughing, I told her that I enjoyed the line and it was no problem, apology unnecessary.

Grimaldis has a garlic pizza (“white pizza”) to die for. However, I learned first hand that it is not very compatible with masking afterward!

The mask will let you know when you have bad breathe too…

Or you could just get the Covid-19 and lose your sense of smell. I’m just beginning to enjoy strongly seasoned food again. It’s taken months to come back.

I think it’s the other way around. When wearing a mask I don’t have to worry about what I ate for lunch.

My Frozen Tundra county is a conservative stronghold, but houses my favorite restaurant. At breakfast the other day, no others coming in with masks, no one leaving with masks, and no servers with masks. So, I rubbed mine on the tabletop outer surface down and left it. A former acquaintance of that city said out of his family of 20, 9 got Covid. Yep, in his case revenge was served cold.

What IS a garlic sandwich ? Two slices of garlic bread pressed together? If you liked the taste, wouldn’t you enjoy the smell ?

The second half of that sentence is unnecessary. Never eat a garlic sandwich, ever.

Absolutely. I learned that ages ago while changing a dressing.

Never eat lozenges while wearing a mask. The fumes would sting the eyes.

Because you’ll be able to smell your own breath. Phew

Shouldn’t this be obvious?

Or 2 cups of strong, black coffee…(answering for a friend).

Surprisingly, perhaps, it’s almost impossible to smell your own bad breath. You’ve probably tried cupping your hand in front of your face, exhaling through your mouth and then sniffing for the odor that others find so offensive. The reason this doesn’t work is a phenomenon called acclimation.But then knowing this, probably takes the humor out of the comic.

Methods to eliminate/reduce garlic and/or onion breath:

Try eating fresh produce like apples, spinach, or chew on fresh mint leaves.

Brush and floss.

Use chlorine dioxide mouthwash.

Use homemade mouthwash with essential oils)1 drop) (peppermint. rosemary, myrrh, eucalyptol) and a carrier oil (1 teaspoon) (coconut, sweet almond, or olive).

Try tongue cleaners, such as tongue brushes and scrapers.

Drinking 1 to 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar in a glass of water, prior to eating garlic or onions, may help flush their byproducts through your system more quickly. It also aids digestion. You can drink a very diluted solution after your meal. Or swish it in your mouth for 10 or 15 seconds after eating as a mouth rinse.

Drink a hot cup of green tea after a meal to temporarily reduce odor until you can get to the bathroom to brush your teeth.

Chewing spearmint gum can temporarily neutralize garlic breath.

https://www.healthline.com/health/get-rid-of-garlic-onion-breath#8.-Chew-spearmint-gum

I kissed a girl once who had had some garlic before … After we separated to catch a breath, I asked her to do something about that before we continued … figured I was just being polite, by not interrupting the moment … ;)

why not

According to Tic Tacs, mask breath is a thing.

A little bit of ones own “medicine”.