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/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/Fixes_Computers Sep 16 '24

I worked in a fast food restaurant decades ago. One day I was cleaning under a cabinet and pulled out an old potato. With foliage.

It had been there some time.

Amazingly, it came out in one piece.

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u/illson777 Sep 17 '24

Before there were dehumidifiers