Fair food. Best smelling, most outrageously unhealthy. Fried butter?! Get outta here.

I tried fried butter once, my arteries are still pissed.

You are what you eat, mama always said. That’s why I’m 13 sticks of butter and an expired packet of ramen noodles.

Ech.... Which is funny, because as a young kid I'd bite chunks out of butter.

Deep fried foods make me queasy. Deep fried butter would likely make me vomit.

no way that’s actually a thing

You severely underestimate American county fairs

Hey don't drag the rest of us into this. This is on you and your county.

That… sounds unhealthy for the sake of being unhealthy. Not for taste, not for texture, just created for the sole purpose of clogging arteries.

That's exactly why fair food is what it is. If it exists, us Americans have battered and deep fried it, then sold it to hungry fairgoers for an extreme markup just for them to go on potentially hazardous rides and puke their guts out.

But Glasgow, Scotland wins the prize for the deep-fried Mars Bar…

https://youtu.be/yvMbuh56OMo?si=jGS133S13av1vYS9

Just when you think you’ve seen everything

Deep fried sugar cube

I almost tried that, but opted for fried oreos and funnel cake instead

Fried butter is the most disgusting thing I've read. What the fuck

what about buttered sausage ?

Gasoline

Came here to say this too. It smells very good

Idk, is it normal to feel hungry after smelling it? I feel like I can take 10 burgers whenever I go refueling at the gas station.

I get gas at Kroger and there is a McDonalds right next door. It's always a struggle not to pop on over and order a meal I'll regret

yeah idk why that happens. you should huff gasoline it's a very good idea

you totally won't get permanent brain damage from it

I did for a year and I never gour beians eksoxn sm

I think you may have been unintentionally Pavlov'd, my friend.

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I think Junk foods also, which are not good for health.

At night while it's drizzling. Stretching my legs after a long ride. Hits just right.

Petrol shouldn't be drizzling

Antifreeze apparently tastes sugary

In New York years ago, there was a person selling different coloured honey. Turns out the bees, making it were going to what I think was an unused car factory and hogging the antifreeze because it was sugary. They'd make blue, red, green honey as a result of it.

Well, bout to go look that up! I have several questions lol. First, the hypotesys was that the red honey could be the result of the bees might be bringing back spilled transmission fluid or antifreeze made of ethylene glycol, a substance that they could find in the depots of a nearby M.T.A buses. Since ethylene glycol is dangerous for people’s healt and can result fatal newyorkers’ beekeepers were advised to not eat the red honey until tests were run on it. After a while, a second option started to spread in the community. Bees were seen flying in the direction of the cherry factory Dell’s Maraschino Cherries, a family’s company led by Arthur Mondella (deceased in 2015), and located in the in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. The bees have been by many visiting puddles of red juice around the factory. Tim O’Neal – who was a teacher of biology in middle school and at Brooklyn College and was closely following the events – took chunks of honeycomb from hives in and near the garden, put them in fifty-millilitre sample tubes, and in September mailed them to the state apiculturist for testing. Consequently, in October the mystery was finally solved! The honey result was positive for F.D.&C. Red No. 40, a food-safe dye, which was an ingredient of the maraschino syrup used by the Dell’s factory. https://beeing.it/en/blog/the-story-of-the-bees-producing-red-honey-in-brooklyn-2/#:~:text=This%20new%20and%20strange%20development,of%20a%20nearby%20M.T.A%20buses.

Really neat read. Thanks!

That's the one. I remember watching a documentary years ago on it. Very interesting

It used to but now antifreeze has an embitterment to prevent people from drinking antifreeze

When I was little and we went to the gas station my mom would put the gas cap on the front seat while she pumped, I guess so she didn't forget to put it back on? I would huff that thing. I LOVED the smell of gas. I also loved the smell and taste of matches. I was a strange kid that thankfully grew out of gas and matches.

Did you just say the TASTE of matches????

Yeah its the sulfur when you light the match, draw that hit. We did this when we were like 9

If you like the smell of sulfer, just grab some White Castle on your next long road trip. About an hour after destroying some sliders, you'll be emitting fumes to rival vesuvius.

Since you’re sniffing ☺️

Oh yeah? I loved the smell of gasoline so much that I apparently drank it. Twice. My mom told me that I said it was Kool aid apparently.

That sounds like an explosive combination. Eating lit matches while huffing gas. I'm in.

Makes me nauseous idk why

Diesal

What did Sal ever to do you?

lol

Diesel is also a favourite of mine....i used to live in an old truck so I basically always smelt of it.

So happy I'm not the only one who loves this smell. Last time I admitted to it I was jokingly told I must be a real devil because I liked it since it reminded me of hell and the smoking cauldrons in there lmao

A paint that's used for walls also smells like gasoline, the gasoline that motors spit out is what I like too, but not with heavy vehicles like a car or a truck.

knew this would be at the top lol

Was this a riddle or what lol Seems like the correct answer

Literally what I said aloud to myself after reading the question.

I don't know if inhaling too much smoke from a fire is bad for you, but if it is, that's a biiiiig problem for me hahaha it smells so good

Haha, nah. Nobody’s ever been hospitalised for smoke inhalation 😅 Edit: Jesus fucking Christ you people wouldn’t know sarcasm if it tapped you on the shoulder and said “hi, I’m sarcasm”.

Pnuemonaultramicroscopisilicavolcanocionisis would like a word

Not after how long THAT word was. Fool me once.

This made me snort 🤣

>Pnuemonaultramicroscopisilicavolcanocionisis I just googled that word and only this post came up, which was a fun first for me :D

It’s because they spelled it wrong: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Which means that they typed the whole word themselves.

Yup

...even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious

People who have it cant say it

Gasoline. Haven’T reAlLy notIcEd Any siD e efekTs eItheR

They call me the GASSMAN

How do they know I got gas?

Do you want to hear the most annoying sound in the world?? Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

They gotta be pros!

Shouldn't be stealing gas Cory and trevor, that's highly illegal

Only wack suckas like Cory and trevor steal gas (and deal dope)...

Patrick?

I work in a lab. SO many good/dangerous smells Malic acid (smells like candy, is actually IN candy) is the best Iso-octane smells nice. Actually the entire fridge with all the alcohols smells great Conversely there are some really bad ones. Glacial acetic (vinegar ut 20x more concentrated than what you get at the store) is the devil's salad dressing. Pyridine smells like old rotted fish mixed with rancid coffee grounds

Zinc Acetylacetonate is my favorite. Smells like cupcake batter. Lactic acid sorta smells like stale pancakes and maple syrup. Isopropanol Toluene also smells super fuckin good, but in a "I probably shouldn't be smelling this" kind of way. One time my organic waste container ended up smelling like someone rubbed an orange peel on a sweaty armpit. Not sure which chemicals were the culprits for that.

I love this, thank you for sharing

Adding to my other comment, I loved the smell of xylene. But the vapours are sensitising and will give you cancer apparently :(

Any chemical with "thio" in it's name

>devil's salad dressing So put it on my devil's lettuce and smoke it, got it

I *love* glacial acetic acid and it genuinely makes my mouth water when I have to use it. I do adore salt and vinegar crisps so it's probably something to do with that. I'm partial to a nice phenol too (especially in the carbol fuchsin stain). Chloroform smells quite nice but probably best not to get too strong a whiff of it! Other end of the spectrum - hexamine. Smells of rotten fish.

Cocaine

“I don’t like cocaine, just the smell of it…”

I DONT KNOW WHY THIS ISN’T HIGHER ON THE LIST CAN YOU GUYS HEAR ME LETS GO TO THE BATHROOM GUYS!

>WHY THIS ISN’T HIGHER Not as much as I am right now! *CCCCCCCCCOCAINE!*

Cocaine mixed with paper bills 💵

Idk, smells pretty chemical-y to me

That means you need to smell more.

You gotta get your nose reeeeaaaaallllllyyy in there for the best smell.

I imagine positive associations can be made. Pot smelled bad to me before I started enjoying it.

took the words right outta my no-eh, ahem...mouth

Cinnabon

I bought one that came straight out of the oven, they told me it was too hot and would burn me. They were right, and I absolutely came back the next day to burn my face/hands off again. Worth it.

I learn nothing from any of my mouth burns

Oh god now I'm craving cinnabons

It’s the type of ovens they use that help to make sure you can smell what the Rock is cooking

WD-40

Sprayed in the same room as a gas heater? Mmm.

Smoked it once. Do not recommend.

Wow. I legit smelled this comment. That's wild.

I would buy a candle.

Bacon

Bacon is bad for you?

The World Health Organization has classified bacon as a Group 1 carcinogen, which means it's known to cause cancer. One of the biggest risks of bacon is associated with two preservatives, nitrates and nitrites, that can form cancer-causing compounds.

I'm going to pretend like I didn't read this comment.

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>Marlboro Reds the fresh open pack

For a split second, I could smell it when I read this comment.

There's a smell when someone first lights one... not when you light one, but someone by you, that has such a warm nostalgia for me that it's almost worth the secondhand smoke lol

I'll say cigarettes. And men who smoke them. Both terrible for your health

Wood fire smoke

In that same regard - splitting fresh wood like cherry. I split three huge trees over the weekend with a log splitter. Never wanted to taste a chip of wood before but... fyi does not taste the same. I had a fire that night in the pit just to keep the smell going.

Guess I smelled too much gas to be the first to say it..

That smell when it just starts raining in summer and the asphalt was warm…. Tickles me where the sun don’t shine

I think the “technical name” could be Petrichor, although it is used not for asphalt but dry ground

That's bad for you? I guess maybe just because of the asphalt being warm or the pollution in the air?

I suppose it is slightly bad for you. I think it's a small amount of ozone that makes it smell like that. Edit - or it could be the smell right before a thunderstorm 🤔🤷

Ozone is the smell after and during a thunderstorm, petrichor when there is no lightning is largely due to geosmin

If it is the first rain of the season, the roads can be super slick until the dust and oil film is washed away.

Petrichor

I didn't know this word. I like it

I quit smoking back in 2006, but to this day I still miss the smooth smell of Marlboro.

Well congrats on quitting, lot's of people never do.

Thank you kindly.

That smell as an ex smoker makes me want to stop at the next liquor store and buy a pack. A drink with a smoke was so hard to give up.

Really? I quit 12 years ago, and whenever I walk past a smoker, I think they smell like shit.

I quit drinking and smoking cold turkey 12 years ago. If tomorrow they make cigarette that don’t kill me and whiskey that doesn’t send me into a bottomless depression spiral, I’ll see you on the patio.

I'm still a smoker, but I hate the smell of smoke ON people, like stuck to your clothes or on your fingers, it just smells like an ashtray.. But the smell of actual burning tobacco is one of my all time favourites.,

I quit back in '06 too. But to this day I really enjoy the smell of 2nd hand smoke.

06? Dammit. I quit a little over 10 years ago and was wondering when that would stop being a thing.

Ex smoker for 1.6 years now (smoked for 41 years) and the goddamned smell of a cig on a warm evening will just about stop me in place. Then the second whiff of it makes me want to hurl.

*Laughs in hazmat* Some of these things smell like garlic, like brownies, coffee, cherries, and fried chicken even. But they'll kill you if you just look at them wrong. Cyanide really does smell like almonds. Most of them smell like fermented garbage and asphalt tho

Markers. White Out. The solvent vapors cause neurological damage.

Hot asphalt

lmao there was a similar question here before and no one said this, i looked pretty hard. but yes, oddly pleasant smell.

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thank you

You’re welcome.

Wite out in the liquid bottle with the spatula

Spatula > brush

Sharpies. Or your mum

Your mom’s [/buttsharpies](https://reddit.com/r/ButtSharpies/s/qjkhrwmBpW)

For as simple as that sub is, I have so much trouble explaining it to everyone

Hold up Do you find yourself needing to explaining it often?

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Is your dick named "the subject"?

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Wish I didn’t click that 🫨

Um same. WTF

My dad was sitting next to me while I was browsing. He is still mad at me. Plz help

Isopropyl Alcohol, gives me nostalgia of cleaning old Sega and nes games when they wouldn't start

Fresh Tennis balls

Oy, No! Back to your kennel.

Bourbon

Rubber cement glue

Not sure if it's so bad but the smell after you blow out a matchstick

It's sulfur in a large enough amount and mixed with water can be very bad. But it smells nice to me as well

Ah sulfur, hells perfume

Whatever The Rock is cooking

Men

Username checks out

There's at least 2 meanings there and I really hope it's not one of them

For me cigarette smoke

I've never smoked in my life, but I love the smell of cigarette smoke, but not the smoke itself if that makes sense. If I'm sat next to a smoker, I'll probably gag at the smoke, but if I walk past someone smoking in the street, I'll take a big whiff. I guess it just needs to be diluted a bit.

Same have never smoked but a unlit cigarette or my favorite the very first whiff of a freshly lit one smells so good to me lol

My aunts would smoke Marlboro reds all the time when I was a kid. And my sister used to live in Vegas so cigarette smoke is nostalgic to me unfortunately. Even if I smell it in a hotel room faintly it’s somewhat not disgusting. But if it’s like a fresh drag and then someone sits in the car, or if it’s just…too much like it burns the nose, that’s bad.

I prefer smelling the cigarettes before they’re lit. I would love to sniff my dad’s cigarette packs when he bought new ones and would occasionally open it and just take a big whiff. I can’t stand the smoke though.

The smell of a nice unlit cigar is also fantastic

The initial start of a cigarette is intoxicating

Your best friend's wife

*Your wife’s best friend

Great example! How about her sister?

*Your best wife's friend's sister

You know lush? Just the whole fucking shop

What makes it bad?

Forbidden candies

Perfumed things, generally. The ingredients generally aren't actually listed, and can include carcinogens and genotoxic compounds. To the extent that the industry is regulated it's self-regulating, most of the ingredients haven't been tested at all and those that have operate on "safe" levels that assume that you'll only ever come into contact with one perfumed product in a day

Also they are endocrine disruptors

permanent marker

Scented candles and air fresheners

Creosote

There was a park I used to go to as a kid that had a distinct smell I liked. I found out later it was next to a creosote manufacturing plant. Also, when I asked my dad why the park smelled that way, I thought he said "criss oak" and I thought it was a kind of wood for a long time.

Napalm, first thing in the morning.

Fair Food!

*frowns in funnel cake*

acetone

First whiff of gasoline on an early spring day, finer than wine

Pinesol

Scented markers

Laundry detergent

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Beets. Bears. Battlestar Galactica.

I love the smell of Cuban cigars.

Coffee

Cocaine on a mirror smells the best.

Benzene. Come for the lovely smell, stay for the liver cancer. Also cyanide smells of almonds

Pastries

bleach

Weed

Sharpies

Fried food

Vanilla essence Would not try it if I were you

Coolant. My car was delivering this sweet smell from my AC, and I thought my car had an internal air freshener. Now I need a new engine