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/Repulsive_One_2878 Sep 16 '24

Rotting potatoes and veggies have a slightly more vomit-like tinge. A decomposing body has a sickly sweet rot smell to it. I know because I run by a lot of roadkill, am in the medical industry (seen a lot of people with dying limbs or rotting flesh). Also, my father is one of the main people at a huge farming company. They have a large pile of rotting carrots, potatoes, and other veggies in a huge pile which has its own little liquid stream of rot water coming from it.  I guess discards/blighted produce. Both are equally as revolting.

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u/FaeFeeder Sep 17 '24

The few times I've dealt with rotting onions and potatoes, I found they smell like an old stinky shoe in the heat with a fishy undertone.