I call that “coverup.” Kind of like base in makeup terms. Fart freely America!
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My coop board gets pretty feisty about that.
If you’ve ever cooked down a kidney, you’d know what I’m smelling. I just can’t do it.
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We’re out there, and in great numbers. In Milwaukee farting is like shaking hands: a warm greeting.
Really 100% super sure you did not mean to respond to me.
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Real bread is the scent of dreams. I’ve never purchased a scented candle, despise them. But, if they could even closely emulate baking bread, I’d lay down the green and get one for every room. Nothing makes my family salivate like bread in the oven about to leave the oven.
“But there’s no way I would cook dog food, or dog’s food.”
“Why on earth would anyone do such a thing?”
Years ago I read an article about cooking healthy food for dogs and decided to give it a try. Simmer chicken livers in water with brown rice and green beans. It smelled so bad I threw in a packet of brown gravy mix. My dogs loved it and I never made it again.
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Laughing so hard right now.
I’ll bet the dogs reminisce about that once epic meal!
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Remember a few years ago when Subway “bread” was declared to be confectionery rather than bread, because the sugar content was so high?
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There’s the proverbial “Dog’s Breakfast”?
My daughter, vegetarian, cooks up for her cat dinners of chicken thighs. She alternates the shredded chicken thigh she makes with dry kibble food.
The smell of reconstituting dried daikon radish. It “stinks to high
heaven” (a phrase my parents liked to use) both while soaking it and while cooking it. Which is a shame because it tastes quite good and is good to keep on hand for emergencies/disasters. The smell makes boiled cabbage smell like something mild and pleasant!
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My in-laws had 6 large dogs and used to cook whatever the butcher gave them… a mix of lower cuts and offal, the smell was horrible. I buy Pedigree Pal for mine :o)
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Sitting outside at a French or German restaurant and being surrounded by people who think smoking during lunch/dinner is a good idea
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Boiling lobster-- ugh! My dad when he bought his restaurant it was a “lobster in the rough place” on a wharf. We also served fast food-- burgers on a flat top, fried chicken, fries, lobster rolls, hot dogs. I was the lobster-cook. Eventually you become “nose blind” to it.
Stale fryolater oil-- heh, even fresh oil when one is exposed to it everyday. I worked there & when we opened up for my first summer I pigged out on fries for 3 days. Walking to work the next day, hungry but as soon as I smelled the oil I lost my appetite. Stayed that way the whole summer.
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Ah, now I understand. D’oh!
We lived near a pet store during our sabbatical in Berlin, and besides your regular canned & dry food options it also had a fresh meat counter with all kinds of offal cuts. The smell was quite memorable, and not in a good way.
Remembered another one: roasting veal bones for brown stock. When they’re hot & steamy but still raw … ew.
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I noticed in DE and CH that there seem to be proportionately a lot - a LOT - more smokers than here in my area. This was more than 5 years ago as I only traveled to those states when I was working and am now retired. But is it still similar?
Edit - I just did a quick google search and from top band results, it seems smoking in DE, CH and other EU states is well more than 2X the US percentage.
I think these were only cigarette results and did not seem to include vaping, which I think in US might be more rampant. Especially as most EU states have capped nicotine levels in vaping cartridges to something less than half what is allowed in US (this info from interviewing several EU patent attorneys seeking to move from vape-producing companies to my pharma company, also about 5 years ago).
I’m a coffee snot, but don’t like the smell of roasting coffee beans - smells like something is burning. I do, however, like the smell of brewing coffee.
Also, fish sauce and Chinkaing black vinegar smell like dirty socks to me 
