What mysterious smell would you like to waft through New York?
Now that we've tracked down the Maple Syrup smell, what's your ideal mystery sent?
I'll start: Homemade Marinara Sauce
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24 Comments:
1. Warm Soft Pretzels with Hot Mustard
and
2. Fresh-baked Gingerbread
:*( I'll visit NYC someday...
hungrychristel at 1:03PM on 02/05/09
Wait - they tracked down the Maple Syrup smell? I moved away from NYC 2 years ago and haven't heard anything about it since. What WAS it?!
Me: freshly-baking bread. Though I'd be starving 24/7
bitchincamero at 1:10PM on 02/05/09
Fresh pizza cooking. No matter what, if I pass a pizza joint with that intoxicating smell, I want some. Even if I just ate.
Laurel E at 1:23PM on 02/05/09
Bacon. Never been to NY, but my bus used to pass a house cooking bacon on the way to work most mornings in Seattle. I'd hate to see the homeowner's arteries, though.
cowprintrabbit at 1:48PM on 02/05/09
Cinnamon buns
bessfour at 1:53PM on 02/05/09
Nabisco on Route 208 in Fair Lawn, NJ used to always smell like freshly baked cookies--you just drive up 208 and want to hang your head out the window and breathe in!! We don't smell it as often or as strong as it used to be--they've probably installed better filtration--but I LOVED that smell!
Donnamarie at 2:29PM on 02/05/09
Fresh coffee grounds
andrearode at 3:46PM on 02/05/09
Fois Gras sauteed in madeira wine.
ronfrankl at 4:21PM on 02/05/09
To echo Bitchincamero, it's been tracked down?!
frostrockr at 4:33PM on 02/05/09
As long as it isn't poop, I would be good with anything.
izatryt at 6:12PM on 02/05/09
Chocolate chip cookies.
CafePhine at 7:47PM on 02/05/09
macaroni and cheese!
hiaubs at 8:50PM on 02/05/09
@bitchincamaro and frostrockr -- I said the same thing! Apparently they only solved it earlier today; its on Reuters if you're interested, and you can Google other sources. Kind of a boring end to an interesting story, haha.
Oh! To answer the question, bread rising and/or baking; coffee brewing.
kfarrel3 at 10:33PM on 02/05/09
when I used to walk to school the grocery store nearby would already be starting their bread making, so I walked the final 1/2 mile to school to the aroma of fresh baking bread. After school I walked to a job where I had to pass an old fashioned pizzaria where they made the best pizza, so I would go to work to the smell of brick oven pizza. Talk about torture!
huneybumper at 7:59AM on 02/06/09
The Burger King parking lot smell
Gtopp at 10:16AM on 02/06/09
Baking bagels
harrison at 10:19AM on 02/06/09
What's the opposite of urine and truck exhaust?
Whatever it is, that's the smell dreams are made of.
butterface at 10:38AM on 02/06/09
duh. maple syrup.
though i still love the jelly doughnut smell i'm treated to every night from the local dunkin' donuts...
Sweet Freak at 1:02PM on 02/06/09
Beard Papa's delicious vanilla aroma. I can smell it every morning at Shibuya Station, Tokyo ^^
Never been in NY but should be the same :P
Kazukura at 6:00PM on 02/06/09
I gotta tell you, maple syrup is jake with me. I would say freshly baking bread, but then I would be come too distracted, because, you know - freshly baking bread!
I gotta agree with some earlier posters. Pretty much anything other than dog poop/urine and rotting garbage and I'll be happy.
chisai at 6:36PM on 02/06/09
In my town (Monterrey, Mexico), the smell of burning charcoal, which indicates that somewhere neabry there's a gathering and a great "carne asada" will be prepared in the next minutes, with some quesadillas, guacamole, salsa, grilled onions, and enough really cold beer... all that comes to my mind whenever I smell that smoke.
When I went to NY, I loved the smell of coffee, and the smell of the food stands inside the old Yankee Stadium.
:)
lagunero at 2:28AM on 02/07/09
CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES!!!
ilovermonteat at 9:41AM on 02/07/09
Definitely Bacon
FoodBoy at 8:35PM on 02/11/09
When I'm on the Charles River in Boston every morning at the buttcrack of dawn, it smells like chocolate chip cookies. I recently found out that was the smell of the Tootsie Roll Factory. I wish that lovely smell on any city.
veggieout at 8:46PM on 02/11/09