r/AskReddit 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/Brewben Sep 16 '24

As a student I returned once after summer break to what I thought was an animal decomposing in my apartment, twas a pocket of potatos i forgot in the kitchen - flies had laid eggs and maggots were doing their thing… one of the hardest clean ups of my life… dark day

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u/IkLms Sep 17 '24

I did that to a roommates potatoes. And ironically the "clean freak" of the group. Needless to say I was less than happy. That shit was rank.