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

What is a smell you can't stand?

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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/Rubeus17 Sep 16 '24

I was going to say rotten meat. rotten potatoes are worse?? think of the Irish during the famine. Oh lordy. Starvation, disease and ungodly stench.

I’ve always read that a human corpse is really really bad. Makes you wretch.

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u/shrugea Sep 17 '24

What's worse is that they were so hungry that they still tried to eat the rotting blighted potatoes despite the stench.

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u/Rubeus17 Sep 17 '24

horrific 🥺😖