Why Does Garlic Ruin Dates?

So you went to a nice Italian restaurant for your dinner date and now your entire body reeks of garlic. What is this treachery?

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[miah]

I should make a restaurant that serves only garlic-flavored food and name it Alicin Wonderland

[Fratos]

The best way, if you're on a date and you want to avoid smelling of a particularly pungent garlic odour (or any odour for that matter), is to have your date eat something with the same food in (i.e. garlic), or politely give them a taste of your meal. This will desensitise them to the smell, or at least lessen it enough to not bother them. If they still recoil, then I'm afraid, you have other problems.

[vectorinator_]

Wow, last time i was this early, UK was still in EU!

[GeirGunnarss]

Easiest way to beat this problem? Make sure your date is also eating food with garlic.

[AnimilesYT]

I love how you start this off with a great joke. "so you're out on a date" xD

[tophers]

The title confused me. Made me wonder who eats dates with garlic.

[WrenchNinja]

probably cause you're dating a vampire

[hazezero]

OMG this explains much about my Italian heritage & my extended family.

[misnicoleandersonfan]

my parents dared me to eat an entire garlic clover about a month ago, and immediately after i came here to see what the hell was going on. lol. this would have come in handy

[silvermegami]

I have never once been grossed out by garlic smell... And also have never had anxiety about people smelling garlic on my breath BECAUSE ITS DELICIOUS WHY WOULDN'T YOU WANT TO KISS THIS.

For serious tho, I'm glad everyone I know puts up with my garlic smells I guess?

[jccw]

I remember eating a Sicilian pizza on a Friday once. That Sunday, my grandmother complained about how I smelled like garlic.

[AirUpBasketball]

You gotta get a date first before you ruin it

[nervengewitter]

When I eat garlic and plan on kissing my bf the same day, I make sure he eats something garlicky too. That way neither of us can notice the garlic taste/smell on the other person. For the same reason I always take a sip of his alcoholic beverage when I'm not drinking, just because that way I can kiss him without being offended by the boozy smell.

[illusion]

last time i was this early there were no uk leaving EU jokes

[gvelden]

Isn't it better that, while on a date, you make sure you BOTH eat garlic? Then it is not noticeable.

[fegolem]

♫ You can get anything you want at Allicin's Restaurant. ♬

[jonasmuller]

Really good, funny, informative an professional episode! Well done Michael and Team😄

[Tyndle]

I love it how my fingers smell like garlic for ages after eating garlicky foods!

[ThePhotory]

If garlic ruins your dates then find a new date. Dates are replasceable but you can only have so much garlic

[generationforeconomicandra]

Last time I was this early Britain was still in the EU.