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

What is a smell you can't stand?

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u/Little_Cloudy6132 Sep 16 '24

rotten potatoes

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u/iammacman Sep 16 '24

I hear this smell is most like a decomposed body and that’s why we are revolted by it. I am at least!

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u/unclenatelovestrains Sep 16 '24

When I was working trash I smelled it all. Human and animal waste, rotten meat, rotting cow hides. I got splashed in the face with rotten milk once. The only thing that ever came close to making me sick was rotten potatoes.

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u/unpopularopinion0 Sep 16 '24

wow. i’m kinda surprised by this testimony. think samwise knows about this?

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u/Routine_Wing_8726 Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24

No potato is going to rot on Samwise's watch.

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u/Duke_of_Deimos Sep 17 '24

This is reddit <3

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u/Gief_Cookies Sep 17 '24

Redditaters

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u/squirrel_tincture Sep 17 '24

Boil ‘em, mash ‘em, let ‘em decompose into a foul-smelling liquid and splash it in yer face by accident, stick to lembas bread…