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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"Her parents" are the mother's parents. They're italian.

This cat reminds me of my kitty Angel - we nickname her pudding as if we have any kind of sweet treat (ie a cupcake) she sits watching me just WAITING for a bit of frosting! She doesn't do it to my husband as he's not a sharer!

I live right between EARL, Ann's Snack Bar, and the Vortex. Personally I like the EARL best of the lot. I travel a lot and eat burgers a lot and search out sites like these to find favorites; and still, of all of them, the EARL's a fav.

I love that place in Le Parker Meridien, though. ;)

I work in a restaurant in a small town in Texas, Greek Bros. I have to say the flat Mushroom Jack Burger or the Cheddar Bacon Cheddar Burger there are among the best I have ever eaten. The burgers are 1/2 pound of meat, each, and the meat is from a local meat market. They cost $10 each, a plain cheeseburger is $7.00. I doubt any "burger crtio" is going to ever come to a town of 12,000 people in south Texas, so all I can say is that I agree that they can't claim that their picks are the best in the USA.

The Black Angus burger at Stoudt's brewpub in Adamstown PA is sublime. It's all about the bakery fresh roll baked on-premise

Baked! I like my chocolate baked. I'll take it any way you want to give it to me, unless raisins are involved.

can't choose I love all chocolate

Please give me DARK CHOCOLATE!