Does having a stroke actually smell like burning toast?

[@SophsNotes]

For the thumbnail I was gonna write 'very rarely' or 'definitely not always' but it turns out a piece of toast is quite a small canvas Anyway this video isn't sponsored but if you want to support my channel + get access to ad free and exclusive content from me and loads of others on Nebula then go to nebula.tv/sophsnotes for 40% off an annual subscription (that's $30 for a year!)❤

[@agwilt]

I remember being in the Bay of Biscay feeling really seasick, lying in my bunk, and then smelling burnt toast and wondering if I actually managed to have a seasickness-induced stroke and would finally die. But it turned out the cook had just burnt some toast 😂 Also, I love how you confirm Betteridge's law of headlines in the thumbnail!

[@SophsNotes]

And I love how I just learnt what Betteridge's law of headlines is!

[@williandalsoto806]

Love this video, straight and to the point. Well, as straight as Soph's notes can be...

[@SophsNotes]

hahaha love this

[@warringsoul]

Hey! In Canada everyone knows it’s a sign of a seizure, due to the Canadian Heritage Moment (kzbin.info/www/bejne/poayeGWdac2dbtU). I’ve never heard of it being associated with stroke.

[@johnmcgimpsey1825]

I smell burnt toast fairly often (and occasionally hay). Was just having a discussion with family about this - good to know the facts with sources!

[@SophsNotes]

I wonder how similar burnt toast and burnt hay smell...

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

I also smell burnt toast fairly often (I often burn toast)

[@WDCallahan]

I don't smell any burnt toast, but I can smell hay. And for some reason, I thought I'd come and let you know.

[@SophsNotes]

Thank you for keeping me informed ✨

[@tubebrocoli]

I had never heard of this before (maybe it's a more regional thing? maybe more common in English-speaking countries?), but hey, I'm glad to learn about a myth preemptively =)

[@poopshipdestroy3r]

I'm from an English speaking country (USA) and I've never heard of burning toast for strokes

[@SophsNotes]

Now you'll know if you ever do hear about it 😅

[@lysaali50]

I'm from english speaking UK and i have never heard the phrase or i have and don't remember 💁‍♀️

[@k0pstl939]

​@@poopshipdestroy3rhey im from the US and I learned fast as face arms speech toast

[@corneliawindstroem]

Hey 😆 Thanks to Nebula I just found you and now I go for a round of binge watching lol And yes, the myth of burnt toast is pretty common here too, but tbh I am not sure if that not came up with the popularity of certain US TV shows here.

[@SophsNotes]

Love hearing of someone finding me through Nebula! Thanks for coming along ☺️

[@RossParker1877]

Hey 😊 Soph. Just saying how much I enjoyed last night's stream and this video

[@SophsNotes]

Thanks Ross!! I appreciate you coming along ☺️

[@TheRuthyToothy]

Hey! I just had to come here to say that the auto subtitles on Nebula to your singing outtake made me choke on my coffee! Apparently, you were singing "the fan too of the Ellesmere is here" 😂😂

[@SophsNotes]

hahaha thank you for sharing, that gave me a good laugh

[@Peter-iq9yy]

It wouldn’t surprise me if phantosmia was most commonly a smoky smell because if you think about it there’s an evolutionary advantage to, if some wires get crossed between the brain and the nose, just tell you there’s shit burning as a safety thing. This is based on nothing more than idle speculation but it kinda makes sense that the brain would default to that if it can’t reliably figure out what you’re smelling because of some impairment. I suppose the cave people who smelt orchids or haribo when suffering phantosmia all died in fires smh

[@DarklordZagarna]

I remember a similar use of phantosmia from the movie Bandits where Billy Bob Thornton's character, who is a hypochondriac, becomes convinced that he has a brain tumor because he imagines that he is smelling burning feathers. I need to watch that movie again someday. It's odd but frequently hilarious.

[@ThatHUTattedOnMyArm]

I’m glad that sneezing isn’t a sign, otherwise people would think I’d have a stroke all the time with my hay fever

[@SophsNotes]

I see what you did there.. very smooth

[@Konzertheld]

Just 4 minutes and 40 seconds but the density of joke-to-knowledge-in-2-seconds-moments was amazing! Thanks Soph, love what you do. :)

[@therealteardrop]

Hey, watched you on nebula and now I'm here. Not sure why I didn't do this earlier

[@pedromatosportugal]

Had never heard of it before! i learnt both about the myth and its busting in one go!

[@SophsNotes]

What a day!

[@Mykasan]

weird, i never heard that myth before this video.

[@cheekychappy1234]

Never heard of that myth and nobody in the house has heard it as well. I do, on the other hand, get brief Phantosmia at the very start and very end of a cold and its always the smell of stale cigarettes despite this household being 100$ smoke free.

[@SophsNotes]

That's so interesting!! I was reading about it being linked to congestion/colds in some cases but hadn't experienced it myself, so thanks for sharing your experience.

[@Kurckie]

I haven't heard about the burnt toast smell before, but I have heard about the other symptoms. It made me wonder: is there a difference between men and women in those symptoms?

[@SophsNotes]

I did read a bit about this - the main thing I found was that in addition to those symptoms, women are more likely to experienced vaguer symptoms like general fatigue and weakness. But I didn't do tons of research in that area so didn't want to say for sure!

[@Kurckie]

@@SophsNotes I'll take a pinch of salt with it then. Those extra symptoms do sound hard to clearly notice though 😬 Thanks for expanding on it! 🙂

[@dogcarman]

Hay, good video. Mythbusting is always good.

[@tajhamarleau6700]

I'd definitely heard that before, and even thought I smelled burnt toast once and been asked that... I don't think I'd heard it before then

[@leahmckeen8180]

hey, just came to see the video on youtube to see if anyone commented on the Canadian Heritage Moment about the brain surgeon Wilder Penfield. For Canadians of certain generations, we strongly associate "I smell burnt toast" with that educational commercial. I'm glad to see that some other people have commented on this.

[@Usaball240]

Yes it is a myth I have heard of before

[@ADream54321]

Hey: in the 90's Canada had a popular and repetitive commercial on TV about its early contribution to science history, something for its citizens to proud of, where a doc probed the brain of a patient during a craniotomy and she said "I smell burnt toast" when he found a troubling area - stroke or seizure or something. It totally caught on from there, or at least it did in my highschool. Turns out it went farther afield than I thought.

[@Frahamen]

Hey, I've never heard that myth before. At least I haven't heard it in the contexts of strokes. I do have heard it with epileptic seizures though.

[@zlionsfan]

I have heard that myth before, a long time ago before the internet, so in Ye Olden Days who knows where it came from? I live in the central US and don't know how widespread that myth is around here, if it was just something I heard once or if it was a common myth when I was growing up.

[@hiromiarash172]

Wonderful vid! If you ever disappear off the face of the earth I’ll assume that the discovery channel got a hold of you because of your mythbusters reference.

[@cheryls8987]

I smell burning toast a lot thanks to my neighbor. "Hey, neighbor, are you trying to burn the place down?"

[@davidjennings2179]

I've heard the myth too - usually through people joking about it.

[@recklessroges]

Thank you Soph for eliminating a delusion that was living in my head.

[@TurtlebackYT]

I am smelling burnt toast right now and it’s 1:55 and i am like what’s going ON man

[@randomviewer3494]

Lol I don't think anyone in the livestream guessed this was the subject. Fun clue tho!

[@SophsNotes]

Yeah I thought it was a dead giveaway! But now I see it's a less well known association that I thought it makes more sense

[@paulsidhuUK]

hey hey I saw the burnt toast thing depicted in a TV drama once

[@lysaali50]

no Tad Strange? but he likes bread 🥲 also the end screen has no video

[@SophsNotes]

Ooh thanks for letting me know! And haha the video was already made, so alas not enough time for Tad Strange inclusion since last night... I'll get there

[@tomwantshelp]

I only knew this from Archer.

[@corngreaterthanwheat]

You ever hear of the shoulder touch? Hey… 😂

[@CarineFrisch]

Hey - love your comments as always

[@fox280-mb6jy]

Are you sure it's a myth

[@gavjarman593]

Just wanted to know

[@gavjarman593]

May I ask it it is a myth

[@1995amittai1]

I smelt burnt toast often but it's because I lived in England and they don't know how to cook

[@SophsNotes]

WOW

[@poozlius]

I've learned things...but mostly, I just want toast now ;-)

[@SophsNotes]

I literally just made morning toast and forgot I'd set the toaster to max for this flipping video 🙃

[@corro202]

Great video.

[@MrTapierwithmustache]

The thumbnail only loaded after I had read the title and clicked the video. Had a good chuckle, well done!

[@SophsNotes]

Thank you! I was so chuffed with the idea and this comment alone means I was right to be so. 😅

[@amanatee27]

Thank you for exploring and explaining this! I feel that the myth is well circulated from people I interact with (Midwest USA), including in the healthcare sector.

[@afd1959]

HEY - I love burnt toast! Not all the time. Sometimes with just butter. Sometimes with just peanut butter. Sometimes with both. I haven't tried it with jam yet. Maybe I'll do that today. Oh yeah, back to the video. Yes I've heard all my life about the burnt toast smell.

[@CarineFrisch]

hey

[@andyspillum3588]

Don't worry we won't tell Jamie and Adam

[@SophsNotes]

Appreciate it x This would be a special moment to realise they're actually secret fans of the channel

[@andyspillum3588]

@@SophsNotes I might shed a couple sympathy tears of joy for you

[@mariannetfinches]

Hey! The acronym joke made me laugh an unreasonable amount. Perfect delivery. Thanks for the explainer

[@ArtArtisian]

I only heard about it from 'inside', where I confess I found it funny and original and have since quoted it - sorry!

[@SophsNotes]

hahah it's okay I won't tell you off

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

My first thought seeing the video's title was that lyric in Inside. I'm pretty sure I'd heard of the burnt toast thing before that, but I might be creating false memories.

[@k0pstl939]

I remember learning the acronym as FAST: Face, Arms, Speech, Toast. Hay was not one of them(or time)

[@SophsNotes]

I guess if it was it would be SHAFT (speech hay arms face time)

[@hoebare]

@@SophsNotes 🎶He's one baaad mother- SHUT YO MOUTH! 🎶 :)

[@PhillipParr]

How many times did you set your smoke alarm off making that toast?

[@SophsNotes]

Proud to say a grand total of zero!

[@PhillipParr]

@@SophsNotes maybe it's time to change the batteries 😄

[@susannicolasheehan]

Hay!

[@SophsNotes]

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