In the 16th century, before the term mandarin became widespread in the European languages, the word Loutea (with various spelling variations) was often used in Europeans' travel reports to refer to Chinese scholar-officials.
Why do some people get smelly gas after eating eggs? I really love eggs, but I get really bad, sulfurous and rotten egg-smelling gas after eating eggs. This doesn't happen when I eat foods which contain eggs in moderate amounts (cakes, etc), but it does happen when I eat hard-boiled eggs or fried eggs. I don't get any stomach cramps or any other symptoms of allergy, however.
Three Major Causes for Intestinal Gas. There are three ways that intestinal gas can be produced in the Gastrointestinal tract. The first is dietary, by production of gas inside the intestine. The breakdown of food in the lumen by bacterial metabolism can produce hydrogen, methane and carbon dioxide.