We Need a State Smell

[BCClone]

Sioux City actually doesn’t smell anymore. Moving sewage treatment away from the only interstate and going from 2nd largest stock yards to no stock yards got rid of about 99% of the “smell”. Doubt the latter is a net positive for local economy, but no more smell.

I saw a guy fishing in a lake that used to be the sewer in “Sewer City” last time I was back.

Did the brand new Triump plant close? That was what? 5-7 years old?

 

[StClone]

Crown Vetch and the two species of Sweet Clover (Yellow and White) have intensely sweet smells and grow profusely along some roadways. Usually the vetch flowers in June and the clovers soon after.

What is the sweet flower smell I catch sometimes in spring/summer when I roll my windows down? I used to smell it by Ada Hayden when I was in school. It’s very specific and I’ve only smelt it in Iowa. Help? (Serious)

 

[Turn2]

What is the sweet flower smell I catch sometimes in spring/summer when I roll my windows down? I used to smell it by Ada Hayden when I was in school. It’s very specific and I’ve only smelt it in Iowa. Help? (Serious)

Clover?

 

[Rabbuk]

Clover?

Maybe lilac too, there was a ton of it in the neighborhood I grew up in and you can smell it all up and down the block. Not sure if uniquely iowa. I'm biased since I was mostly in crapids so it either was crunchberry, dog food, adm, or ingredion, or in recent years the **** winds from the treatment plant.

 

[FarminCy]

Hog crap, chicken litter, anhydrous, packing plant, distillers grain, and crunch berries.

Blend it up and bottle it.

 

[2speedy1]

Well I guess this has brought up the debate of Iowa smells, are we known for the good ones or the bad ones.....we have a lot of both.

Clinton, IA the stickiest town in the US.
Cedar Rapids the town that smells like a fruit snack....in some areas.
Hog ****
Cow ****
Fried food or fair food in general
fresh dirt
fresh grass
Fresh hay
sweet corn
Ethanol and the plants it is made at smelling like a distillery
hops, because so many hoppy beer is made in Iowa
Burnt rubber and diesel smoke
Fresh rain
Whatever that nasty smelling tree is on the ISU campus!!! Everyone knows that smell that has ever went there!


Maybe Iowa is just a smelly place...

 

[Cyientist]

The smell of freshly plowed black dirt in the spring is really specific, and quite pleasant.

Manufacture that and it will eliminate a large portion of the recreational tillage!

 

[Cyientist]

What is the sweet flower smell I catch sometimes in spring/summer when I roll my windows down? I used to smell it by Ada Hayden when I was in school. It’s very specific and I’ve only smelt it in Iowa. Help? (Serious)

Linden/basswood trees also have a specific smell during pollination.

 

[StClone]

Well I guess this has brought up the debate of Iowa smells, are we known for the good ones or the bad ones.....we have a lot of both.


sweet corn

Whatever that nasty smelling tree is on the ISU campus!!! Everyone knows that smell that has ever went there!


Maybe Iowa is just a smelly place...

Corn has a sweet smell of its own (especially when pollen is flying) as Iowa does not produce a lot of Sweet Corn relative to the general Field Corn. The Tree which stinks on campus may be the old Ginkgos. Unfortunately, in late autumn the female ginkgo trees drop their foul-smelling, fleshy fruit following the first frost.

 

[psycln11]

There's a strong stench coming from Terrace Hill!!

 

[NWICY]

How 'bout that meat-packing-plant stench?

The modern plants have really cut back on that. I've been by Prestage's new plant by Eagle Grove multiple times and have yet to smell anything unpleasant. Maybe just timing ? I don't know.

 

[NWICY]

Bacon (frying).

Mmmmmmm...

I've been up in Austin near Hormels when they are doing a change in the smoking room, oh gosh it smells so good, and that was just going by the plant .

 

[NWICY]

Unless it had Hog **** knifed in the day before...like it usually does these days.

Otherwise, yes it is.

I might also add the smell of said fresh field when a rain first hits.

Fresh mowed hay, that's a smell of summer. Sigh.

 

[StClone]

I've been up in Austin near Hormels when they are doing a change in the smoking room, oh gosh it smells so good, and that was just going by the plant .

Cooking that old spam in the can.Hmmmmm.

 

[Cyismymonkey]

Does meth have a smell?

Meow

 

[MuskieCy]

The modern plants have really cut back on that. I've been by Prestage's new plant by Eagle Grove multiple times and have yet to smell anything unpleasant. Maybe just timing ? I don't know.

Just got to be on the up-wind side,...roses and vanilla.

 

[tm3308]

It's hog ****, and it's not even close.

 

[Bubbahotep]

Terrace Hill smells like ****, but that has more to do with the resident.

 

[VeloClone]

Other than hog confinements and/or beef feedlots, what could be Iowa's state smell?

New Mexico considers roasted chile as official state aroma

The sweet smell of green chile roasting on an open flame permeates New Mexico every fall

abcnews.go.com

Are you from Cedar Rapids?

 

[pourcyne]

Are you from Cedar Rapids?

No, but I used to watch



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