- cross-posted to:
- seattle
- cross-posted to:
- seattle
I saw this article at BoingBoing, and had to look it up.
From Wikipedia:
The Aroma of Tacoma, also known as the Tacoma Aroma, is a putrid and unpleasant odor associated with Tacoma, Washington, United States.[1] The smell has been described as similar to the odor of rotten eggs.[2] The odor is not noticeable throughout the city, but is rather concentrated in the Tacoma tideflats and is frequently smelled by motorists traveling that section of Interstate 5.[2]
people might also be interested to know that downtown Chicago used to smell like brownies because of the Blommer chocolate factory that was there from 1939 to 2024
Boston sometimes smells like molasses in the summer from a molasses flood back in 1919.
I’ll just leave this here, because it’s so fascinating. Can you imagine a wave of molasses traveling at 35 mph?
The Dead Milkmen wrote a song about it.