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i grew up next to a pig farm. Want to trade?
by hprotagonist 8y ago
i grew up next to a pig farm. Want to trade?
- analog31 8y agoI went to college in a town in Michigan. If the wind blew one way, it was the pickle factory, and the other way, the pig farms.
- hprotagonist 8y ago“and i’m one horrible day in mid-August, they mixed”
- tomjakubowski 8y agopossible there's some destructive interference in there
- bluedino 8y agoIn our case the other smell is the sugar beet plant
- analog31 8y agoThere's also the celery. I drove through a valley in western Michigan right after the celery harvest, and the smell was overpowering.
- js2 8y agoWorse than a paper mill?
- 40four 8y agoWow, paper mills are so bad. Now I want to smell these pickle vats to compare. Good read though. I love pickles, had no idea they all come from Michigan.
- js2 8y agoAhem, not all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Olive_Pickle_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Olive_Pickle_Company (And that’s not even counting the dozen jars in our pantry that my wife made from the cucumbers she grew in her garden out back!)
- 40four 8y agoLol I was being facetious. As a North Carolina native, I have eaten my fair share of Mt. Olives! Great pickles! Homemade are the best for sure. I have a couple raised beds at a local comunity garden, I am planning on making my own this year as well! Can't wait!
- hprotagonist 8y agowell, differently awful. i've never been close enough to a tannery to know, but that's historically one of the professions that gets kicked out downwind of towns very quickly.