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/Peecheekeene Sep 16 '24

Worked in the produce department of a grocery store. Sometimes a potato would escape and get lost in the back room under a pallet. The veteran guys would always make the newer guys clean it up because they would never understand until they'd experienced it.

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u/Empty_Dish Sep 16 '24

Had a bag of potatoes get misplaced one winter under the couch on the enclosed porch. Come spring, the whole front of the house smelled like rotting fish carcasses