My state smells like ...

[MisterCreosote]

What does Massachusetts smell like?

I would've guessed like some low-quality douche product.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

I would've guessed like some low-quality douche product.

That would be what it SOUNDS like.

 

[Spartan Squad]

For Father's Day, wife and I drove down I-5 to SoCal and passed by Harris Ranch. The sun was setting but it was still around 90 degrees outside. The steaming piles of cow **** and mud got so thick there was a literal fog on the freeway that reduced visibility by at least half. I almost thought there was a fire near by but I couldn't see anything burning.

 

[ChrisLong]

For Father's Day, wife and I drove down I-5 to SoCal and passed by Harris Ranch. The sun was setting but it was still around 90 degrees outside. The steaming piles of cow **** and mud got so thick there was a literal fog on the freeway that reduced visibility by at least half. I almost thought there was a fire near by but I couldn't see anything burning.

Yep. Harris Ranch is definitely a windows up, AC pumping section of the I-5.

 

[ChrisLong]

Do they still manufacture Indian Motorcycles out there?

Wiki says Indian went bankrupt and shut down in '03. Garlic still thriving.

 

[albert777]

Kansas reaks of cow **** from all the feedyards in the morning.
You couldn't swing a dead animal without hitting a feedyard out here.
I've been here all my life, so I don't even notice it. But if you get a newbie out here, the morning after a good rain.......Ye Gods. The reactions are priceless.

The town in Kansas where I grew up is the exception. There it's the smell of the big oil refinery in town.

Where I live now, the prevailing odor is pine resin, mostly from logging operations. Well, except for the occasions when my home city's multi-million dollar (and counting) sewage SNAFU wafts through the central areas of town.

 

[Chef2]

The town in Kansas where I grew up is the exception. There it's the smell of the big oil refinery in town.

Where I live now, the prevailing odor is pine resin, mostly from logging operations. Well, except for the occasions when my home city's multi-million dollar (and counting) sewage SNAFU wafts through the central areas of town.

Aw.
Then you're from McPherson.

 

[albert777]

Aw.
Then you're from McPherson.

No, a little further south.

 

[Oggiedoggie]

Kansas reaks of cow **** from all the feedyards in the morning.
You couldn't swing a dead animal without hitting a feedyard out here.
I've been here all my life, so I don't even notice it. But if you get a newbie out here, the morning after a good rain.......Ye Gods. The reactions are priceless.

My wife grew up across the road from 40,000 cattle in a feedyard in southwest Kansas. She says the flies were worse than the smell.

My parents lived in Liberal, Kan., for a while. Sometimes when I visited there, the stench from a packing plant would punch me in the face when I walked outside. Folks who lived there would say, "They must be burning blood today."

 

[Neutral Corner]

Then there is the non state specific smell of a skunk that got run over...

 

[jr/shotglass]

It depends which way the wind is blowing on how the small city where I work smells. One day, paper mill. The next, it could be an ethanol plant that makes you wish for the paper mill.

A fourth smell for my state. Spring Grove, Pa., has a huge paper mill in the middle of town. Overpowering aroma.

 

[Chef2]

My wife grew up across the road from 40,000 cattle in a feedyard in southwest Kansas. She says the flies were worse than the smell.

My parents lived in Liberal, Kan., for a while. Sometimes when I visited there, the stench from a packing plant would punch me in the face when I walked outside. Folks who lived there would say, "They must be burning blood today."

If your parents lived in Liberal, then they have my deepest sympathy. What a hideous hell hole of a town.
I know all about the burning blood.There's a huge packing plant around here that has a tannery in it. You can smell the odor of burning hides for miles.

 

[Jordan Hansen]

cattle manure and hog confinements

 

[SpeedTchr]

McPherson's a great little town.

Skunk spray is wonderful for clearing my sinuses. Don't mind it at all.

 

[dixiehack]

With all great respect to the farmers who feed the world and my ungrateful self, I never want to visit Kansas now. It sounds like it would violate treaties to keep POWs there.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

With all great respect to the farmers who feed the world and my ungrateful self, I never want to visit Kansas now. It sounds like it would violate treaties to keep POWs there.

People here have mostly been talking about Southwest Kansas, which is loaded with feedyards and packing plants. You aren't going to get the same kind of aroma if you're hanging around KC, Wichita or the Flint Hills. Even where I grew up, cows far out number people, but the smell is fresher because it's largely pasture land and wheat fields rather than feed lots.

 

[swingline]

I don't know that Illinois has a smell, but the stench of Decatur makes up for the rest of the state. It's bad enough to drive through that I can't imagine growing up there.

 

[FileNotFound]

Back to the north/south debate: South Florida is three counties: Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach. Fort Myers is not South Florida. And the University of South Florida is most definitely not in South Florida. How it wound up with that moniker is beyond me.

Anyway: for cities that smell, I will submit in a vote for Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The cereal factory there makes the town on some days smell like the world's largest bowl of Cap'n Crunch and on other days smell like musty socks.

 

[dixiehack]

The Keys aren't South Florida?

 

[Batman]

The Keys aren't South Florida?

Culturally, I think they're almost their own little world. Closer to South Florida than Southwest or North Florida, certainly, but not quite the same.