Commuting - Crunchberrys!

I ride right by Quakers plant here in town and today it was obious they are making crunchberies. It's a rather sickly sweet smell - I think it's growing on me.

Nothing more to tell, I hope you all had an excellent commute.

Ha!

Grandpa worked as an engineer when they built that plant, toured it twice as a kid.
CR always seems to have some pungent oder in the air.

As as kid I loved the smell of the Royal factory we'd pass when driving to Barcelona. Mmmmmm, flan. :D

the dill pickle factory in North Portland makes me sick everyting I ride by. Luckily it's not on the daily commute.

From the title of the thread, I thought this was another "foot slipped out of the cleat" or "broken chain" story.

The best I can do on my commute is the little bakery place up the road. It probably gets pretty hot in there, so they leave their big bay doors open at night. Some mornings, i just want to do a few extra laps of their parking lot. Downside: they don't actually sell anything there. :( They only bake it there for sale in their store uptown.

Best I got is the local dairy farm. Nothing like the smell of a manure pond to open up the nostrils.

There's a Hostess factory in town here, hundred of bike commuters salivate daily at the scent of Twinkees in the air, i've convinced myself hostess cupcakes are a new type of power bar.

Darn it !
I dont pass anything that smells nice :(

I go by a sawmill with that wet cedar smell, a McDonalds which reinforces my disgust of fast food, and a fish plant.....which makes me see how far i ride on one breath.

I ride right by Quakers plant here in town and today it was obious they are making crunchberies. It's a rather sickly sweet smell - I think it's growing on me.
Lucky you. All I got to smell was a garbage collection truck and the exhaust from a natural gas powered shuttle bus. :( Those things STINK!



...I hope you all had an excellent commute.
I did, thank you. :)
Rode part way with another commuter that I sometimes ride with, depending on our work schedules.

The morning temperatures are getting a little on the cool side. :crash: Wake me up when it's April. :o

the dill pickle factory in North Portland makes me sick everyting I ride by. Luckily it's not on the daily commute.

Ugh. I worked a summer job in a pickle factory once. Damn good money (union shop, 50% of my time per day was overtime) but god it reeked. It could knock you over from the parking lot a block away. I still can't stand pickles.

Ever experienced the smell of a mushroom farm? I get to on a daily basis. Yummy! Luckily (I guess) I worked a lot with the stuff when doing landscaping as a teenager and I'm somewhat immune to the smell. It still grosses me out somedays.

In the afternoons, I bike by a restaurant that must have a wood grill, because it always smells like a barbeque.

I thought they grew on trees!

I ride by the Krispy Kreme doughnut store every morning. Mmmmm. The smell of clogged arteries from two blocks away. Doughnuts - I hate 'em but I love 'em.

I ride past an amazingly aromatic breakfasty-smell place, but I haven't the first clue what building it's emanating from. No restaurants or houses in that area for a long way.
It's coffee-bacony-sausagey-kolache-gravy-eggy smelling heaven.

I'd dearly love to know where to get me some of that goodness.

I ride past a bakery...somewhere the smell of baking bread just drifts over....It's a good feeling. Nothing like Krispy Kremes tho! :p yum good motivator :p



I ride by the Krispy Kreme doughnut store every morning. Mmmmm. The smell of clogged arteries from two blocks away. Doughnuts - I hate 'em but I love 'em.

There's a Saputo dairy plant a few miles from where I live. Sometimes in the summer, the exact smell of cheetos hangs in the air for blocks. No other smells really, but it does often make a high-pitched grinding sound that while it doesn't seem so loud when you're there, you can hear it at least a mile away on a quiet night...

Vinegar distillery in Baltimore - phewie.

Aging chipmunk roadkill..ewwww.

Smells I have experienced on a bike include:

Breweries in Milwaukee: an acquired taste, but I now roll my window down when I drive around so I can smell it again.

Malt-o-Meal factory in Northfield, MN: Yummy.

Purina Dog Chow factory in Minneapolis: Dog Food stench clings to South Minneapolis.

Thankfully the steel makin', rotten-egg smelling, days of Pittsburgh are gone so no reeking sulfer dioxide. There used to be a Nabisco plant that made Vanalla wafers on Wednsedays but allas that too is gone. About all I smell on my commute is the exaust of the beertrucks that I draft going down 5th ave in the mornings. Invigurating.

No one chiming in from Southern Indianapolis? I seem to remember slaughter house aromas as being wicked around there.

Sometimes all of Denver smells like dog food (much like Minneapolis, I guess, JoeDog) Horrible stuff! Hard to breathe and bike... Would totally prefer crunchberries. Or beer.

Smells I have experienced on a bike include:

Breweries in Milwaukee: an acquired taste, but I now roll my window down when I drive around so I can smell it again.

Malt-o-Meal factory in Northfield, MN: Yummy.

Purina Dog Chow factory in Minneapolis: Dog Food stench clings to South Minneapolis.


I have yet to smell the Malt-o-Meal factory in my MN travels but the Purina Plant I will second that is not a great smell. One more to add is the Paper mill in Sartell ?sp? just north of St. Cloud college training rides up there were a gamble depending on the wind.

The smell of a brewery is definitely aquiered. As a kid I can remember thinking it was a disgusting smell down town Milwaukee. Now like you I find it to be an OK oder.

Vinegar distillery in Baltimore - phewie.

I take the Vinegar distillery any day compared to the Waste Management Plant near Essex, Maryland(Indescribable)

I like to smell the McCormick Spices in Baltimore near the Inner Harbor.

well I get the smell of pot more then anything else. sometimes several times along my 10 miles.
also one that took a ibt to figure out. I would smell almost burnt toast all the time. I finally found it it was big coffee roasters. once the smell is diluted a bit I guess it smells like toast.
one that took years to figure out. I would get a wiff of sewer around a couple of blocks for years. finally figured it out the two tire stores caused it. sometimes the new tires smell like sewer.

I pass a breakfast restaraunt every morning on my way to work next to a mexican restaurant. but mostly i just smell the nasty marsh gas

Bruce's Food factory. Fried pies!

well I get the smell of pot more then anything else. sometimes several times along my 10 miles.
also one that took a ibt to figure out. I would smell almost burnt toast all the time. I finally found it it was big coffee roasters. once the smell is diluted a bit I guess it smells like toast.
one that took years to figure out. I would get a wiff of sewer around a couple of blocks for years. finally figured it out the two tire stores caused it. sometimes the new tires smell like sewer.

That's it!!! I have been smelling toast for months on my new route and finally linked that it is always about 1/4 mile downwind from a coffee factory.

I also ride by a Crispy Creme every day. Ever since some college buddies and I ate ourselves sick on crispy cremes, I cannot stomache that smell. Just about any strong smell in the early morning will make me feel like tossing cookies. :eek:

I pass a small factory that makes scented candles.

The Sewage Treatment plant at 145th St and the Hudson River Greenway. 99 times out of 100 though the fans are blowing the stench out to the river. Phew!!

I ride right by the New Belgium Brewery (makers of the fabled Fat Tire Ale) every day. I love it when they're in various stages of mashing or milling, the smell is just heavenly.

I ride past a horse pasture and some mornings it can just knock you over. Then I go past the Anheuser-Busch brewery. Mmmm, beer!