what is that horrible smell

Day of the Triffids Carrion Flowers

rotted, glowing, mackerel

damn that thing is amazing

Amazingly, lentils can be the stinkiest thing ever if you leave cooked ones in a pot for too many days and then de-lid them... uurrghhh, fermented death yuck.

Worst smells for me though are seriously sick homeless people. I hate feeling judgemental but when someone gets on a tram and the whole tram suddenly smells like BO+vomit+dogshit+doritos I just want to fling myself out of a window.

Burnt tomatoes.

chicken parts in the garbage bin. ew grody.

xxp it's the Doritos that really sends it over the edge

Haha yes.

Why do they even make dogshit flavour Doritos when they're so unpopular?

Well, the shit-eating dog market is substantial....

Rotten potato is one of the worst smells ever. And rotten onion.

I'm surprised more ppl haven't mentioned melons -- old melon is the pinnacle of sweet/rot.

Oooh yes rotten (raw) potato, definitely a foul stench.

The worst. Also if you leave gereberas in a vase too long = rotten potato stench

or however you spell that flower lol

Oh man, rotting flower water is vile. It smells like a big vase of diarrhea.

When I worked at a grocery store I accidentally stuck my hand into a rotten potato. The smell would not wash off, not even with bleach or baking soda.

in one of my rental houses we had a phantom stench in the kitchen...one day I lost it & went through every cupboard & corner praying it wasnt a decaying mouse. In a random empty cupboard I found a bag of completely rotted, deflated potatoes. I can still dmell them. *shudder*

smell

We had a phantom smell in our last apartment. It turned out to be a gallon can of soy sauce that was totally fine (or at least we used it and didn't die) until one day it made our apartment smell like something crawled into a vent and died.

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa225/fowlerjenn/IMG_1770.jpg

Before we figured out what it was, we called Jesse AND building maintenance. Phantom kitchen stenches send me into this panicked fight-or-flight state in which I monomaniacally tear the kitchen apart until I find the thing that smells.

WHOA SORRY GIANT CAN OF SOY SAUCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

Smelled up my kitchen, now it's smelling up this thread.

see that is why it's not worth it to buy in bulk

I had no idea you could buy bulk metal cans of soy sauce! Yows.

I buy those big jugs of soy sauce. They last about me about 2 months. I love soy sauce.

see that is why it's not worth it to buy in bulk

Yes. So we learned.

Did you not refrigerate it? I've had soy sauce that was still good after a few years that I only threw out because the bottle got too messed up.

No. You don't really have to refrigerate soy sauce and the giant can of it didn't fit in the fridge anyway. But I mean, you don't really have to refrigerate soy sauce if you're going to use it pretty quickly. I'm thinking we had this can for more than a year.

You would think all that salt would preserve it for years.

Huh, it never occurred to me that soy could go bad. Seemed like, I dunno, vegemite...like a "forever" condiment, lol.

EVERYTHING I KNOW IS WRONG *cries*

I refrigerate my soy sauce, including the big jugs. That's what the crisper drawer is for - refrigerating bulk products.

I thought that was for beer.

The second, smaller fridge is for beer!

crisper is for beer and apples
no one needs that much soy sauce in their fridge at any given time unless that fridge is inside of a restaurant

Wrong. I need that much soy sauce.

Also: a gallon of sweet chili sauce.

what is that horrible smell

Also: multiple bottles of Srirachia.

And tubs of pre-peeled garlic (which I freeze).

God bless the Asian market where I buy those bulk items, and of course God bless pre-peeled garlic.

you must make the most interesting ice creams

You keep multiple bottles of Sriracha in the fridge?

I thought that was for beer.

― William (C), Monday, December 5, 2011 11:30 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

OTM

Although Jeff has been lobbying for a second smaller beer fridge for years.

Jeff OTM, the beer fridge will change your life

You keep multiple bottles of Sriracha in the fridge?

Yes, of course.

wtf

sriracha doesn't need to be kept in the fridge fyi

I would be nice to put vegetables in the crisper drawers, I suppose.

I'm still trying to deal with this. Jesse, why do you even have multiple bottles of Sriracha? How many bottles are we talking about?

In the bathroom at my current workplace, there is a dispenser of some sort of fragrance. This stuff deserves to be outlawed under treaties against chemical warfare.

William, having know Jesse as long and as well as I have, I can say that multiple bottles of refrigerated Siracha is probably the least strange of his consumption/food storage/storage of nonfood items in places where there is usually only food habits.

I keep a bottle of sriracha in my toilet tank