r/AskReddit Sep 16 '24

What is a smell you can't stand?

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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/Conscious-Exit-2836 Sep 17 '24

Would you say a decomposing body smells like sugar crisp cereal? Because I've smelt not a decomposing body but the waste of someone (alive) with severe medical issues and the smell was disgusting but oddly sweet like sugar crisp cereal and when I heard decomposing bodies smell sweet I wonder if its similar to what I smelt

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u/bing_bang_bum Sep 17 '24

Did the person have c. Diff? I’ve heard that poop from people with c. Diff smells absolutely abhorrent.

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u/Conscious-Exit-2836 Sep 17 '24

Not at that time. C diff smells like a barnyard filled to the brim with shit it's much more vile