Text 11096, 46 rader
Skriven 2014-03-19 23:02:08 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 10996 av Stephen Haffly (1:396/45.27)
Ärende: Re: food factories
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-=> Quoting Stephen Haffly to Nancy Backus on 17 Mar 14  11:45:50 <=-

 NB>> Too much of anything tends to be too much... at least food plants
 NB>> aren't as nasty as tanning plants... (G)  Working in a restaurant can
 NB>> be about as bad... one gets steeped in kitchen odors...  ;)  Somehow
 NB>> it seems worse from a restaurant kitchen... maybe it's the commercial
 NB>> dishwasher that does it...?  I well remember picking up one of our
 NB>> house "pests" that got a kitchen job in a classy restaurant, and the
 NB>> reek... ;)

 SH> We lived next door to a restaurant when we first got married.
 SH> Unfortunately, it was next to the kitchen and the dumpster. It got
 SH> quite rank in the summertime. As we did not have air conditioning, we
 SH> were at the mercy of the wind direction.

That would be pretty nasty... :)  Driving by one of our neighborhood
supermarkets in summer is like that... really rank when it's hot, and
the wind in the wrong direction... guess they don't keep their dumpster
very well, as I've not noticed it with other supermarkets, just this
one... 

 SH> The worst smells other than the restaurant dumpster I recall are paper
 SH> mills and hog farms. The overflowing waste ponds from the hog farms
 SH> following a strong storm were what put me off from eating pork for a
 SH> number of years. The cattle pens between El Paso and Las Cruces were
 SH> almost as bad as the hog farms, but it was the unrelenting stench of
 SH> the hog farms for miles and miles in western North Carolina that made
 SH> the difference.

Horse manure is pretty strong, too... not my favorite thing to be
driving past...  ;(

 SH> OTOH, we have been by a coffee roasting shop in Hawaii. The scent of
 SH> fresh roasting coffee was quite pleasant to me. Another thing that can
 SH> smell nice is curing tobacco. It is quite different from when it is
 SH> chopped up and rolled in paper. In cigarette form, it just stinks.

Tobacco curing is a nice enough smell... and I used to enjoy the smell
of pipe tobacco smoking... but even that gets to me nowadays... I agree
on the cigarettes...  

ttyl          neb

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