It was always fun smelling piles of wet rotting grain in the yard.
Mitch
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, Jpslhedgpeth@... wrote:
>
>
> This one is related to another recently reported railroad related smell...It
> happened many years ago, but it made an impression that I've never forgotten.
>
> My grandfather as president of the Rock Port Langdon and Northern Railway
> Company belonged to the American Short Line Railroad Association...I think
> that organization still exists under, perhaps, a different name.
>
> They held their annual convention in Chicago and I went along with my GF
> sometime back in the 1940's to the meeting which was held at the Palmer
> House. One of Chicago's finest hotels..My GF always stayed there and I
> presume we were staying there also.
>
> The meeting opened with a noontime luncheon held in one of the elegant Grand
> Ballrooms. We stood around outside the room for awhile while my GF kibitzed
> with all his friends and acquaintences prior to the meeting. Finally the
> doors opened and we went into the area set up for dining.
>
> As we found our place at the table I noticed that the entire room (at least
> it seemed like it was everywhere) smelled just like a a men's public
> restroom. I didn't say anything to my GF, but thought "it doesn't smell like
> a real appetizing place to have lunch here"...I was probably 7-8 years old.
>
> We sat down at the the table and the waiters all began bringing out what was
> to be the primary luncheon item..I noticed that the smell I had detected
> earlier got stronger and I certainly wasn't getting any hungrier.
>
> The waiter began to set before us what, if you had been in a normal
> restaurant, appeared to be some form of "Pot Pie"..ie Chicken--Turkey etc.
> ...some combination of something wrapped in a baked shell which looked
> somewhat normal.
>
> I don't know whether I opened mine up or asked my GF or if it was announced
> that the "delicacy" was..."KIDNEY PIE"...Well, it smelled to me like the
> "pies" hadn't been drained of all the material that had passed through what
> was the main element of the concoction...It was awful......I'm sure I didn't
> eat any of the stuff, and have no expanded memory of what I did do, but I'll
> never forget that odor and the fact that it was connected to something you
> were supposed to eat made it all the worse.
>
> Pete
>
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