What is the worst smell?

[Shell Beau]

I hate the smell of greens or cabbage cooking, fishy fish, my hubby's gas (almost makes me puke).

I forgot a paper mill. They stink beyond belief.

[GOPisEvil]

1. Meat packing plant.

:puke:

[Shell Beau]

9. Yes, there is a chicken plant in a town that

I used to have to work in. Horrible.

[Field Of Dreams]

2. Burnt popcorn and

skunk spray. Although skunks themselves are adorable!

[ET Awful]

12. Burnt popcorn gets my vote.

Ewwwww.

[no name no slogan]

3. pull my finger and find out (nt)

:P

[Lavender Brown]

4. Trash rotting on a hot summer day

:puke:

[Shell Beau]

11. Very stinky!

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

16. but I thought you said you were going to miss NYC?

[Lavender Brown]

19. Not that part

:P

[Logiola]

5. mushroom

farms

[ceile]

6. fresh cut grass, blech!

[Shell Beau]

13. I have to disagree with you there.

I like it b/c it takes me back to when I was small. It was summer and I was out of school.

[ceile]

15. Most people do...

but for some reason it makes me queasy. Who knows?

[silvermachine]

7. The noxious one emanating from the White House...

...thought to be caused by it's current occupant.

[LynneSin]

8. My hair

The shampoo was great for my hair but it smells like fricking Pachoulli (probably because it's Wheat & Patchoulli from Bath & Body)

[evlbstrd]

10. Skunk.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

24. i like skunk..AS LONG AS IT IS NOT RIGHT UNDER MY PORCH

[LynneSin]

28. Me too

:D

[Squatch]

25. Or, how about the skunk ape?

Descriped as a combination of skunk, rotting flesh, and garbage.

Bigfoot gets no respect.

[XNASA]

14. Houston

[lpbk2713]

17. There used to be a leather tannery in my town.

That place stunk something fierce.

[XemaSab]

18. The Corpus Christi

city dump.

Unreal... just unreal...

Anything involving sulphur is pretty bad. Dead critters are bad. Skunk when you have been sprayed is pretty bad. Rank outhouses are pretty bad.

But the Corpus Christi city dump. Unreal.

[Left_Winger]

20. Paper mills - yuck !

I live about twenty miles from one and if the wind is blowing from east to west it will curl your nose hairs!

[Shell Beau]

22. Those are definitely STINKY

[Lydia Leftcoast]

36. Paper mills are definitely on the list

When I was a kid, we often used to cross from Internaitonal Falls, Minnesota, to Fort Frances, Ontario, and there was a paper mill right near the customs stations. Not only could you see the mill dumping vomity-looking waste right into the river (in those pre-EPA days) but sometimes the smell was so bad that you couldn't breathe without coughing.

I've heard that meth labs are similarly noxious, but I've never smelled one.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

21. rotting potatoes...i went on vacation for a month came home to....

to find them mush in the bin :puke: :puke: :puke:

[Shell Beau]

23. Eeeewwww!

[Wickerman]

26. My dog's farts

unbelievable, and man, do they linger!

We could try Beano or something, but its irregular. I guess he finds something in the yard. :yoiks:

[pdx_prog]

27. Louisiana has some of the rankest smells..

From rotting sugar cane near Raceland to the giant sulphur piles in Port Sulphur. And let's not forget the aroma of piss and beer on Burbon street on a hot day in August.....eeccckkkk!

[swag]

29. Dead mammal decay

[Shell Beau]

30. There is no smell quite like it. It is horrible.

[Saphire]

33. death gets my vote.

[GreenPartyVoter]

34. Yep.

[Merrick]

59. Thanks to the metabolic processes of the aptly named

bacterial enzymes "cadaverine" and "putrescene".

Please recycle your pets.

[LeftyMom]

31. Whole Foods' fish section in the evening

That "not so fresh" aroma just about knocks me over if I have to go over to that end of the store to get something out of the refrigerator section. I have to hold my breath or it makes me ill.

[I Know How To Do it]

32. Toby Keith

PEEEEEEEEYYYYYYEEEEWWWWW!

[ghostsofgiants]

41. Haha, good answer

Welcome to DU!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

35. I once went to the hospital to see my Dad who just had surgery

No problems with Dad. Me and some family members were walking down a corridor when the smell of some strong chemical hit me. I don't know what that was, but my eyes and nostrils burned like hell, I couldn't breathe and had to crawl (yes, crawl) back to where I came. Everybody else went on unfazed. I was pissed because nobody believed it was that bad. But it was.

That was a temporary room where they held people who had just been operated. What the hell was that?

[lpbk2713]

37. Formaldehyde ? .... Ammonia ? ..... n/t

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

38. Probably Formaldehyde

Didn't smell like ammonia.

[patcox2]

39. My wife had a dog that loved to eat cat poop (from the litterbox)

That dog's breath was pretty bad.

On the other hand, she rarely had to clean the litterbox.

[anarch]

40. half-burnt skunk hair, tied to a dead rat with a hobo's sock.

[MadHound]

42. Hands down easy,

A pup with parvo. Nasty, nasty disease that effects the digestion of dogs, if not caught early on, it is fatal. Parvo virus infects the cells of the bowel and digestive tract, along with attacking the white blood cells. It kills and necrocizes these cells, with are then flushed out the intestine, along with blood and other fluid. What comes out is the most putrid, insanely stinking mass I have ever seen or smelled.

Please, please, make sure that all dogs that you know are vaccinated for this virus. It can be fatal, and if it doesn't kill your dog, it will certainly affect its quality of life for the rest of its life.

[demily]

44. ...

:puke:

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

43. I lived for two years near a paper mill in Georgia

on the Savannah River. Most of the time the wind blew the other way. But when the wind blew the smell into town it was unbearable. It was sickly sweet beyond sweet and seemed to get caught in your throat. Days later, I still couldn't get the smell out of my head. I agree with you that it's got to be one of the worst all-time smells.

But I think dead bodies are the worst, for anyone who's ever had the misfortunate occasion to sample that smell.

[SmokingJacket]

45. A tupperware thing full of beans and rice after

a month or two in the back of the fridge.

You might as well sacrifice your tupperware, because that stank is never coming out.

[Burma Jones]

46. My List

1) Poorly washed Chitlins cooking in vinegar
2) Chicken Factory Farms
3) The trains hauling hogs from Iowa to Chicago stopping in Galesburg, IL on a 95 degree day.
4) The (now closed) Reelfoot meat packing plant of Union City, TN
5) Paper Mills fer sure
6) Dead Sharks held in a Formaldehyde solution
7) The basement of the Beta Theta Pi, Knox College Chapter, fraternity house
8) The Gary, Indiana of the mid 1960s
9) Anaroebic decay of just about anything


And Lower Manhattan on September 11, 2001 until about a week afterwards.

[4 t 4]

47. The Smell Of

the shrub....after he falls off his bike.

[Catfight]

48. Puke, that's the worst smell. nt

[AngryAmish]

49. I was in an unairconditioned poultry warehouse in Chinatown

in August. The stink hits you from the street. Imagine what spoiled chicken smells like i your garbage and multiply by 20000.

Oddly enough, the guy I had to visit there had a head injury and lost his sense of smell. A great place for him to work, but he got lots of funny looks on the el.

[MN ChimpH8R]

50. Stink story

Years ago I worked for a dry cleaning shop. Joe, the guy who owned the shop, owned the whole building, and the remainder of it was a Mexican restaurant. The restaurant owner fell behind in rent payments and, after a few months, Joe had enough. So they changed the locks on the doors, and a few days later the electric company cut off the juice for non-payment.

Fast forward about three months. Joe finally got around to going into the restaurant space to see what the deal was. There was a godawul reek in the place. He went back with a couple of other guys later and then they found the 1/2 ton of ground beef that had been stored in the freezer (now off for 3 mos) just before he changed the locks. His eyes were still watering when he came back to the cleaners. "Indescribable" summed it up.

Paper mills are horrible - 20 miles away from Green Bay I asked a friend what the horrific sulfuric stench was - it was the paper mills in Packerland.

[SarahB]

51. Two words.

onion butt! ;)

[donheld]

52. Yo mama

:eyes::rofl::eyes:

[Chicago Democrat]

53. Ass

sorry yu askes and I thinkses

[Gidney N Cloyd]

54. An ex-banana.

[leftofthedial]

55. worst thing I ever smelled was

a half-rotted maggoty raccoon carcass.

repuke hot air comes in a close second.

[SoCalDem]

56. catbox..

Take it from an expert.. it's the pits:(

But it's the price we have to pay to keep our babies safe and happy :)

[shugh514]

57. Pig Farm

It's not only the worst, the odor travels far.

[youthere]

58. Corn sweetener processing plant..

A fetid combination of all of the above.

[Merrick]

60. A death brawl between a skunk and an incontinent cat

[Merrick]

61. A manitee recycling plant

[WCGreen]

62. NAPALM in the Morning

[all.of.me]

63. dead animal smeared on dog's neck in 95 degree heat while...

...i am eating.........

yes, that was last week. ick. i took her right down to the river and drenched her.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

64. I'm bookmarking this thread to use as an appetite suppressant

:puke: :puke: