Road Cycling - ahhh....the smell of food

Everyday as I commute home I ride by applebees and man the smell coming outa that place...yummmm. Of course I'm only 10 minutes into an hour ride and I'm starving....then I'll ride further and someone is BBQing some steaks and it smells soooo good.....ohhh and the donut shop in the mornin....man I gotta get a life...



kern

Freinds and I were riding a couple of months ago came to a small town we had decide to stop for lunch. We didn't know any food stops in the area but as we rode into town I could smell the place we were going to have lunch at. Turned out to be the local tavern and the food was great.

I have to ride by a bread/pastry/cookie factory every morning. You can smell chocolate chip cookies for 3mi. Oh and then when I get into the lower income neighborhood there's a few mobile BBQ joints that setup. All that hickory smoke mingled with BBQ sauce....

My commute has me riding by a scented candle factory. My mouth starts to water the air's so loaded with sweet.

Some years back (I'll not forget it), I was headed home
through an older, "mixed-use" area near a university.
Lots of academia/creative/professional residents.
This was right around six p.m.

Through a one-mile area, I encountered at least a dozen
distinct and entirely unique smells of food cooking.
It was enough to make my head spin, and was like a fast
trip around the world.

One more reason why bike commuting rules.
(Maybe this should go in the Commuting forum...)

On my commute route I ride past a couple of steakhouses on the way home. Since people in Colorado seem to eat out really early, there's usually plenty of grill smell at around 530 or 6 when I go past. It usually makes me crave a steak myself and I don't even really like red meat that much!

The smell of bacon on Sunday morning rides is INCREDIBLE... that and the smell of BBQ, or garlic in the afternoon...

I also ride by the Maruchan Top Ramen Factory... it makes me wanna hurl... I lived on that stuff for like 6 weeks straight once in college... now the smell of it makes me sick

jeff

The smell of bacon on Sunday morning rides is INCREDIBLE... that and the smell of BBQ, or garlic in the afternoon...

I also ride by the Maruchan Top Ramen Factory... it makes me wanna hurl... I lived on that stuff for like 6 weeks straight once in college... now the smell of it makes me sick

jeff

Unfortunately I'm not so lucky. I ride by an old cattle ranch on the way to work...manure piled 10 feet high..Its really hard to hold your breath and ride...

The smell of bacon on Sunday morning rides is INCREDIBLE... that and the smell of BBQ, or garlic in the afternoon...

I also ride by the Maruchan Top Ramen Factory... it makes me wanna hurl... I lived on that stuff for like 6 weeks straight once in college... now the smell of it makes me sick

jeff


In college, I lived on hamburger helper without the hamburger....and your right bacon smell on the weekends....fantastic.



kern