Does asparagus make your pee smell?

[Mabubeezareel]

For an entire day after eating asparagus, my piss will smell something rotten. So bad that I need to flush the toilet while I'm actually peeing. Allright, maybe it's not that bad, but foul enough for me to be mildly disgusted.

On the other hand, my girlfriend is completely impervious to the smelly asparagus pee. She eats it all the time and is immune to its effects.

So, how many of you BGers loathe eating asparagus as much as I do?

[Ganondorf]

Last edited by Mabubeezareel; Today at 01:37 AM. Reason: Eff me - meant to make this a poll

A poll is exactly what this thread needs.

[Bluefrostie]

Grosssss

[archibaldcrane]

Your girlfriend says her pee doesn't smell? Or you've personally smelled her post-asparagus pee and determined that it doesn't smell?

Because the smell of asparagus pee is something that some people cannot smell. I'm serious. It's a genetic lapse for some people, like the inability to roll one's tongue.

There is debate about whether all (or only some) people produce the smell, and whether all (or only some) people identify the smell. It was originally thought this was because some of the population digested asparagus differently from others, so some people excreted odorous urine after eating asparagus, and others did not. In the 1980s three studies from France,[38] China and Israel published results showing that producing odorous urine from asparagus was a common human characteristic. The Israeli study found that from their 307 subjects all of those who could smell 'asparagus urine' could detect it in the urine of anyone who had eaten asparagus, even if the person who produced it could not detect it himself.[39] However, a 2010 study[40] found variations in both production of odorous urine and the ability to detect the odour, but that these were not tightly related. It is believed most people produce the odorous compounds after eating asparagus, but only about 22% of the population have the autosomal genes required to smell them.[41][42][43]
In 2010, the company 23andMe published a genome-wide association study on whether participants have "ever noticed a peculiar odor when you pee after eating asparagus?"[44] This study pinpointed a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in a cluster of olfactory genes associated with the ability to detect the odor. While this SNP did not explain all of the difference in detection between people, it provides support for the theory that there are genetic differences in olfactory receptors that lead people to be unable to smell these odorous compounds.

[Mabubeezareel]

Your girlfriend says her pee doesn't smell? Or you've personally smelled her post-asparagus pee and determined that it doesn't smell?

Because the smell of asparagus pee is something that some people cannot smell. I'm serious. It's a genetic lapse for some people, like the inability to roll one's tongue.

I can confirm that I have smelled her pee after eating asparagus, and it is completely normal smelling. Not just immediately afterwards either, like 3-4 subsequent pisses after we've eaten.

[Qalbert]

I can confirm that I have smelled her pee

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[Milkster]

A thread about smelling other people's pee. Are you two into golden showers? I mean, it's cool but that's the only time I can think of that you'd be in such close proximity to another person's urine for smell to matter.

[Mabubeezareel]

It doesn't take more than walking into the bathroom before it's been flushed and taking a breath through my nose to tell if it smells badly or not. It's not like I'm digging my nose anywhere near the bowl or anything that vile.

[Qalbert]

whoa whoa whoa, calm down bro, dunno why you're all pissed

[Howie Roary]

asparagus isn't the only culprit

[Mabubeezareel]

whoa whoa whoa, calm down bro, dunno why you're all pissed

Asparagus pee is serious business.

[Pirian]

whoa whoa whoa, calm down bro, dunno why you're all pissed

http://static4.fjcdn.com/comments/32...08c66103db.jpg

[Kyten]

If I drink about 2 or 3 glasses of grape soda it has the same effect except, one million times as awesome.

[Howie Roary]

my best friend and I of 18 years had blue slurpees one summer, Blue Raspberry if I recall, and I honestly remember having blue poo, and he claimed the same

however, literally no one ever believed us, so much so that I've started to pretty much doubt my own memory -- can anyone else verify something similar? Beets don't count, I know that works

[Waraji]

^ Blue/Green poo does happen with these kinds of drinks. My friend still is amazed and brings it up on near to constant basis whenever we pass by slurpee machines.

[Howie Roary]

that is disturbingly comforting news, I will have to repeat our results with scientific rigor at soonest opportunity

[Blubbartron]

Whenever I use the hazelnut coffee creamer at work, my afternoon piss absolutely REEKS of hazelnut. It freaked me out the first dozen times.

[kuronosan]

Asparagus is a potent aphrodisiac known to increase sperm volume. Clean your dick right.

[Dimmauk]

I love the way my pee smells after eating asparagus and drinking coffee for breakfast.

[Kohan]

Asparagus pee is serious business.

It is, and this thread should continue to thrive accordingly.

Asparagus pee smell fucking kills me. It takes a lot to make me physically sick, as some of my Realty/Property Management-related adventures exposed me to the nastiest shit you can imagine, yet asparagus pee smell is one of my weaknesses. I can't stand it.