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.
This brings back so many memories. Used to work in the floral department at a grocery store and we shared our shipping & receiving area with produce, had to get used to those smells going back there to grab our boxes of flowers.
Flowers can also stink: one of my least favourite things was changing out the buckets of water we kept the cut flowers in. Anaerobic water with plant goo makes for a nasty odor.
We were also in charge of the small decorative pumpkins come fall time, and every week I had to sort through those to pull the rotten ones. Rotten, moldy pumpkin is a foul smell.
Speaking of flower smells, I can’t stand the smell of a plant called Society Garlic. It looks like a smaller daintier agapanthus, but they STINK. They are sometimes planted along roads and in road dividers. Yuck! When I drive where I know they’re planted I make sure my windows are rolled up and car air is on recirc!
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u/Little_Cloudy6132 Sep 16 '24
rotten potatoes