Surely psychosomatic would be the smell making her actually feel *ill* despite there being no ingestion of the offending wotsits?
If the volatile compounds being boiled away & the proteins (orange has protein?) being denatured are generally inextricably linked, it's perfectly sensible for the volatile compounds to be associated with 'nasty', because past experience has shown that close association with them causes bad things.
(On a side-note, never ask me to cook curry/chilli when I have flu/heavy cold - I will cook something hot enough to terrify the illness away, because I cook instinctively by smell and forget to compensate for a blocked nose!)
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Re: Ahem!
Date: 2004-01-30 02:51 am (UTC)If the volatile compounds being boiled away & the proteins (orange has protein?) being denatured are generally inextricably linked, it's perfectly sensible for the volatile compounds to be associated with 'nasty', because past experience has shown that close association with them causes bad things.
(On a side-note, never ask me to cook curry/chilli when I have flu/heavy cold - I will cook something hot enough to terrify the illness away, because I cook instinctively by smell and forget to compensate for a blocked nose!)