Asparagus has a reputation for making your urine smell worse than it usually does. I’ve heard and read about this but never actually experienced it. The way that our friends go on and on about it, it’s pretty hard to miss.

I’m not a big fan of asparagus but I never noticed any extra smells after eating it. Maybe my superior metabolism didn’t have that reaction to asparagus?

More recently, I found that there is a genetic relationship to being able to smell the difference in urine. Not to metabolisms reacting differently to asparagus but to being able to smell the difference.

I recently got an analysis that said that the odds that I was able to smell whether I’ve eaten asparagus lately were two out of three. I’m gonna guess that I’m one of the one out of three.

I suppose that I could just eat a bunch of asparagus and start sniffing. But I’m not going to.

I wonder if this is related to the fact that my shit doesn’t stink?