I can’t stand the smell of cigarette smoke, but I do love the smell of cigar and pipe spoke. Yet the couple of times in my life I’ve tried smoking a cigar I hated the taste.
In downtown Jacksonville FL there’s a large Maxwell House coffee factory. The first couple minutes in the area smells nice. Then it’s like being trapped in a diner where the old ratty coffee in the bottom of a forgotten pot is being slowly boiled to crunchies.
The county jail is just downwind; I don’t know whether that stink gets on folks’ nerves. But it sure might.
Absolutely. Best if very slightly burned in the roasting.
For me it’s oxtail soup. Funny thing is, I liked it as a kid. I still like the smell, but no way could I eat it.
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In an area where I spent a lot of my teen years there was a tannery. I think they really ramped down production by the time I was hanging out in that area since I never really noticed it, but friends who had lived there were still holding their noses as we drove past on the assumption it would smell bad.
Where I went to school, we were surrounded my a lot of cabbage farms. It’s not that noticeable most of the year, but come late summer/fall, when they were harvesting, it could get overwhelming if you were driving past it.
I also currently live near a Patrick Cudahy/Smithfield plant. I drive past it on a regular basis it it nearly always smells like bacon within about a half mile or so. That’s no big deal, but I can’t imagine living within smelling range. It would get old quick if all you could smell was bacon every time you walked out of the house. And, I assume, at least for the people living closer, it must get into their house as well.
Pfister & Vogel?
It was still (barely) in operation when I moved to Milwaukee in 1998 but closed for good in 2000.
No this was Cudahy Tanning. Online articles say it closed in 2007, but if it was still operating that late, it must have minimal. I have no recollection of smelling it and I had been hanging out in that neighborhood since the late 90s.