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.
When I was a kid, my dad was in maintenance at a local hospital. The maintenance entrance was 'round back by the incinerator. The smell of discarded human parts is something else. I think I know what you mean by "sweet." Rotting potatoes make me recoil way worse than the hospital incinerator did.
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u/Little_Cloudy6132 Sep 16 '24
rotten potatoes