In Wyoming, campaigning causes bad smells, bad roads, and bad accidents. Although it does create a lot of short term jobs.
What am I talking about, you ask? This years' sugar beet campaign.
I have no idea why they call it a campaign, but for about a month there are spud trucks (oops, I mean beet trucks!) running non-stop though town. The sugar beets are farmed on all sides of town, so you never know what direction a truck may come from. As the trucks leave the fields, they run mud onto the streets, and when it mixes with the bentonite in the soil, and the snow, the roads become a slick mess.
The sugar beets are processed in a sugar factory on the edge of town. The smell it creates is something between rotten potatoes, manure, and stinky feet. Sometimes the smell is so bad in town that you can't go outside without gaging. I am lucky enough to work on the same side of town as the factory, but live on the other.
Eww! Our sugar beet factory adds something to the plant so it doesn't smell as bad because so many people complained. Now it smells like moldy peanuts. But the rotting potato skin plant still smells like you are describing...I think I just vomited a little
ReplyDeleteI wish we had smell-o-blogs or smellputers. You've got me curious. I want to smell it, too!
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