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The Folgers plant smells like burnt toast, in a good way. I love toast!

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Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells

The Folgers plant smells like burnt toast, in a good way. I love toast!

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Hi I realize this is pretty late in the game to post but esmesbell mentioned the Cheerios smell in Buffalo, NY. It's from the General Mills Plant on the canal. They alternate between Cheerios and Coco Puffs.

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The only saving grace of my family's yearly road trips to California was passing through Gilroy, the garlic capital of the world, and the worst smell I've ever experienced was Lodi, which we never passed through again. Imagine every form of animal byproduct just waiting to pervade your senses for days.

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I live in a little town in Yorkshire, England, and there's a health-food shop called the Bear Co-Op near me that always smells really strongly of spices and herbs. I've always loved it, since I was a little girl.

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My husband grew up not too far from one of Ghiradelli's chocolate factories near San Francisco. When I noticed the aroma, my mother-in-law told me that if you have to have air pollution, make it chocolate.

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mmm, every time I drive past the Nabisco factory on 208 in fair lawn, nj I always roll down the windows and take in a big whiff. mmmm, cookies

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In 1965-66 I lived in Gilroy CA and the summer smells from the garlic processing plant and the tomato canning plant were almost overwhelming. Skip 30 years and Oakland's Chinatown fortune cookie factory would occasionally goof up and burn those sweet cookies...I liked that better than when the then closed down Nabisco plant burned theirs....that was too much even though it was obvious that it was food, not houses, burning.

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Here in Lexington, KY we have a JIF factory and when they are roasting peanuts it's a wonderful thing... even despite the latest scare! I used to live about 3 blocks from it, and I really miss that neighborhood.

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My g-ma lives in oak park, IL...a mere 1/4 mile from the ferrara pan factory. You can tell exactly when Boston Baked Beans, LemonHeads and other various candies are being made.

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Decatur, IL - has an ADM plant that makes cornstarch and the whole town smells like corn flakes.

Its neither a good nor a bad smell.... just corny and ubiquitous.

I prefer my own local autumn "large scale" smell of roasting green chiles on nearly every parking lot surface in town. Tingly nose-burning wonderment...

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@tina-eats - it's been over 8 years since I worked there....

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B&G Foods in Portland, Maine, makes B&M Baked Beans. You can smell the sweet baking molasses aroma driving through Portland on Interstate 95. Yum!

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I live above a Starbucks. The smell is peculiar...a bit like coffee mixed with a touch of linoleum high school hallway. However, it smells like home to me :)

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I was in Battle Creek, MI and was outside all day. Battle Creek, Cereal City, is the home of the Kellogg's cereal plant. I was at a park a good 5 miles from the Kellogg factory. In the morning they were making Cocoa Pebbles, in the afternoon, Fruit Loops. Smelled delicious.

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i lived in denmark for a year near a sugar plant that processed sugar cane, during the summer months it smelled awful 24/7, like burned sugar and mud

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@amydistel, I grew up in that exact neighborhood near Miller Park! The yeast smell actually comes from 2 places- the Miller Brewery, and (emitting a stronger smell I think) the Red Star Yeast factory in the valley.

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Driving through Cedar Rapids, IA - both The Quaker Oats plants and the Ralston Purina plant would produce some interesting aromas.

Used to work in a building that had a pizzeria and the elevator shafts would act like chimneys. You could smell the basil and oregano all the time.

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I live in Ybor City, the Latin quarter of Tampa, FL. The there are two bakeries and a company that roast Cuban style coffee with in walking distance of my apartment. The smells are AMAZING!

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I live in Hershey, PA. The smell of chocolate is strongest in the early morning. I never get tired of it.

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Theres this rinky-dink bakery close to where I live that bakes the most delicious guava, cheese pastries; plus homemade empanadas! The smell is buttery and sweet. Reminds me of where I came from.

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My daughter lived in downtown Springfield, MO for a year, in a loft that was formerly a meat-packing plant. Across the street is Cargill Foods, a poultry processing plant. Most of the time, the smell from the plant is pretty funky but one night a week they make smoked turkey products and the smell drives the local residents out in search of late-night sandwiches!

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The minty smell in Cambridge is NOT from the Necco factory. There is not even Necco factory in Cambridge anymore. The former building where there used to be a Necco factory was purchased by Novartis and was converted into a biology lab.

Regardless, the mint smell is from the Cambridge Brands factory on Main Street that makes candy for Tootsie Roll Industries. It's the result of making Junior Mints.

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Not sure if it qualifies as enticing- but here in Edmond, OK we occasionally get a strong Purina dog food smell...

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Oh, another one. I was working in downtown Detroit. Every morning, I would smell the aroma of fried potatoes, the wonderful hashbrown-aroma you smell when passing a great diner in the wee hours of a cold morning. One day I finally got off at the exit where the wonderful aroma was coming from to find the restaurant. Manage my surprise when I found out what I was actually smelling was from the Better Made factory, and they were processing potato chips! A disappointment on the level of the waffle story above!

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I was on a business trip and staying at a hotel that served a free breakfast outside of Cedar Rapids. I was working late (it was around 4:00 am) and all I could smell was waffles, and was literally drooling. All I could think of was there would be waffles for breakfast. When I went down for breakfast -- no waffles. When I asked, the hotel servers smiled. We were down wind from a Quaker Oats factory that was making cereal that night and THAT was what I was smelling!

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The 60 Fwy as it runs through Rowland Heights in southern California -- right around the Nogales St. exit, where there are row after row of Chinese & Asian restaurants. The smell of sauteeing garlic, especially around lunch and dinner time, often wafts over the multiple-lanes freeway ... enticing you to take the nearest exit to find the nearest restaurant!

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