OK, i gotta hear this.
(For some reason, I’m picturing the van Buren Boys episode of Seinfeld.)
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We had a Folgers plant in KC.
When the breeze was right the whole city had a fresh coffee aroma.
When the breeze was from the other direction the whole city smelled like the stockyards, thankfully now extinct.
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The most 'fragrant" city I can remember is Tacoma back in the early 1970’s. The Tacoma Aroma was pungent and nearly constant in some neighborhoods. My Uncle Bob bought a place Tacoma near the school he taught at and he said that with his teachers pay he had a choice between a house in one of the Tacoma Aroma neighborhoods or under the approach for SeaTac. He chose the noise over the stench. I believe I agree with him.
I was surprised to find a similar stench in New York last year, almost like an industrial cleaner with a aftertaste of cat piss, but the people I talked to said it was because the wind was from the SW and that it would go away when the wind shifted. The next day the wind did shift from the SW to a coming from a little East of North and there was no smell. Not sure what is SW of Manhattan but it is pretty potent.
I would much rather have coffee scent!
Isn’t New Jersey SW of Manhattan?
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Nothing as good, or funny, as a Seinfeld episode. Basically, I was part of a group that was working on a large project. The McCormick people never showed up, and contributed no work. The rest of us had to carry their load. Left a lasting impression.
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The Union Stockyards had just about reached their end by the time I arrived in Chicago for school, but we were warned nevertheless about wafting fragrance when the wind was right.
I think we worried more about the air pollution from Gary, Indiana.
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Newark, maybe? I don’t think Staten Island has huge industrial plants. Not sure.
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Elizabeth, most likely.
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Exactly. The lovely stench coming off the refineries that line the Turnpike and which make people think that all of NJ is like that.
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I almost never bother with those little overpriced jars of questionably-fresh herbs and spices. Ethnic markets (Indian, Mexican, Middle-Eastern, Asian) are almost always a better bet.
