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Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
I grew up next to an Anheiser Busch brewery which smelled very strongly of yeast. It was a comforting bready aroma in winter. Summers on the other hand- yikes! Nobody wants to battle a Southern California summer with hot bread stench hanging in the air. The orange blossoms from the nearby groves made for perfect springtime smells though.
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Cook the Book: The Essence of Chocolate
A chocolate mousse with shaved chocolate swirls in a small Parisian brasserie. The mousse was the most delicious thing I've ever tasted, and that was definitely helped by the fact that it was my first night in Paris.
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
I grew up next to an Anheiser Busch brewery which smelled very strongly of yeast. It was a comforting bready aroma in winter. Summers on the other hand- yikes! Nobody wants to battle a Southern California summer with hot bread stench hanging in the air. The orange blossoms from the nearby groves made for perfect springtime smells though.
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
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.
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
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.
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
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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Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
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.
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
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
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
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.
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
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.
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
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.
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
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...
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
@tina-eats - it's been over 8 years since I worked there....
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
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!
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
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 :)
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
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.
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
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
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
@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.
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
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.
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
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!
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
I live in Hershey, PA. The smell of chocolate is strongest in the early morning. I never get tired of it.
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
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.
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
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!
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
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.
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
Not sure if it qualifies as enticing- but here in Edmond, OK we occasionally get a strong Purina dog food smell...
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
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!
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
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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A chocolate mousse with shaved chocolate swirls in a small Parisian brasserie. The mousse was the most delicious thing I've ever tasted, and that was definitely helped by the fact that it was my first night in Paris.