Leuty Parker

Tag: #dog

  • McLarens

    Why I tried this was because I was told they used ample WR codes, which really interests me. My idea is to provide nutritional information using QR codes…. Sadly this doesn’t suit the “classic” style most restaurants have though. Majorly, this industry is focussed on the “art” of cooking, not the data being it.

    So for this, it took ages to get there, the food was substandard, the decor was “pub-like” & there was a dog, barking there, owned by a customer. This, for me, ruined the atmosphere.

    An odd mix, but basically nothing of what attracted me there (the QRs). This was introduced as a method to adapt to “social distancing”, a great way to reduce the need of physical contact. Many modern restaurants have introduced this as a way to order. Pity that here didn’t carry on, or adapt this. They just kept the old fashioned style.

    This is very subjective, I know. But certainly not what I like.

    My main USP is reviewing restaurants as a diagnostic. No attractive of the food, rubbish atmosphere & “old-school” (obviously “pub grub”). Below is a picture of the menu, I had the risotto which didn’t fill me, so with side salad which had pomegranate, didn’t mention that on the menu. Ample fructose though, if I knew I would have reached.

    The pomegranates may have been the guilty party of why I left with high (& riding) BGL.

    It may have been because I stopped off for a tequila shot on the way back, but this made me happy, & very dancy.

  • 16 /6 – Pheromones

    “Don’t wash, I’m coming home” – Napoleon

    We spend as much money to take smell off us as we do putting smells on us, eg perfume. The word “pharamones” is relatively new, it’s only 50 years old.

    Nobody has systematically gone through all the molecules that we give off to find out which combinations are most attractive. They just chose a few combinations & experimented to see which works best.

    ‘Pheromone’ is a chemical transmitted between individuals of the same species.

    Smell is very important to our souls.

    We discovered that the pheromone was how male dogs could smell (or certainly can sense) when female dogs were on heat. The chemical that was given off by females was synthesised & when the synthesised chemical was given to the opposite sex dog it drives them mad, the artificial pheromone for the dog was discovered. That, however, hasn’t been found in humans.

    It’s particularly about what we learn as we age. When we are toddlers we just find smelly things as interesting. As we grow we form an identity.

    We all have our own unique smell, like a identity smell. The nose is directly linked to the brain, it is directly beneath it. The nose has different receptors for different molecules. Just to get very specific, humans have about 400 receptors.

    The molecules are odourless when they come out from the glands. It is only the bacteria our culture may produce which makes the molecules that leaves our bodies smell.

    Here’s where I learned all the above information. See it here;https://www.ted.com/talks/tristram_wyatt_the_smelly_mystery_of_the_human_pheromone?language=en