> Some people are apparently able to discern difference between high-street chains Yes, I'm one of those people. Or at least I can tell McDonald's/non-McDonald

> Some people are apparently able to discern difference between high-street chains Yes, I'm one of those people. Or at least I can tell McDonald's/non-McDonald's. I also can smell them from quite a long way away. Once I spotted one while driving in a city in Spain, it was almost 1 km away but we found it by circling around it by smell. This was before smartphones, GPS and such, and before generalized air-conditioning in cars (which happened in Europe fairly recently) and pollen filters. Indeed today when driving in a car I don't smell anything, and it's disturbing. One of the pleasures (not often discussed) of riding a motorcycle through the country is experience all the different smells of the outside world. (Of course you can always drive a car with open windows but it feels weird and if you're not alone in the car inevitably other passengers will complain).