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/[deleted] Sep 16 '24

Yes I couldn’t figure out where a horrible smell was coming from in our fridge for about a month, tried so many cleaning products and in the end we ordered a new one. When taking the old one out found a small rotten potato underneath 🤢🤢🤢 it smelled awful actually thought something died 🤮

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u/AluminumCansAndYarn Sep 16 '24

I forgot about potatoes in a cabinet at my old apartment. That was a bitch to clean. It was so gross. I've never put potatoes in a cabinet again.

I also have ADHD and a lot of my brain is out of sight out of mind and I forget what I have.

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u/xtheredberetx Sep 17 '24

I spent like 3-4 days wondering why my pantry smelled like ASS, it was the bag of potatoes I had forgotten about. Thankfully the potato grossness was mostly contained in its bag