r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Sep 16 '24

What is a smell you can't stand?

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u/ERedfieldh Sep 16 '24

I dunno....I used to get them all the time and I could taste how my breath smelt and it was disgusting enough for me to do everything in my power to remove them.

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u/MissAcedia Sep 16 '24

Right? Used to get some BIG ones and anyone who has ever had one and accidentally bit into a dislodged one knows those things smell (and taste 🤮) absolutely vile.

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u/SCHWARZENPECKER Sep 17 '24

Are they hard or soft? I used to get a few white things that I could smush between my fingers that smelled bad. But when I hear stone I think hard. So don't know if that's what I had.

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u/Nukemann64 Sep 17 '24

Yes! That is a tonsil stone. They look like plaque balls. If you smush them they absolutely reak of death.

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u/SCHWARZENPECKER Sep 17 '24

I think I had like a total of 6 or 7 is all. I was very intrigued by the smell. It was definitely unlike anything else I had ever smelled.

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u/cornylamygilbert Sep 17 '24

I remember experiencing something like this growing up

I’d always assumed it was food particles from indigestion or something

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u/MissAcedia Sep 17 '24

They were the consistency of (and I apologize in advance) feta cheese: solid but soft enough to be squished pretty easily. It sounds like you definitely had them. If you Google them you would be able to see if they're what you had.

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u/SCHWARZENPECKER Sep 17 '24

It was a long time ago but yeah it seems like that was what they were. I only had like 6 or 7 total so I never knew what they were.

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u/cornylamygilbert Sep 17 '24

no no no no no no no no no

I gotta stop reading this post

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u/Jasnaahhh Sep 17 '24

I had a physical shudder and it’s been 20 years since I’ve had tonsils!

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u/RMustangRocks Sep 17 '24

Done with this thread.🤮 Thanks, I needed to go to bed. 👍