Like the smell of Cake?
Or more realistically "like the smell of cake from 4 miles away...

....then as you drive closer you fing it more sticky and cloying than a very heavy scented bottom odour. Then even closer the smell really changes into a molten vegetable smell. About a 5 mile radius of evil stench.

Well, you would never credit it but it was the sugar processing plant that made that smell. Boiling down sugar beet and spinning it to make pure white sugar. only about 17% sugar in a beet - so 83% boiled away vegetable as vegetable matter.

It does briefly smell like a fresh biscuit, until the undersmell overpowers the sweet smell. boik.

Bury st Edmunds
( bazza van der trance , ooh baby baby, baby baby. Get up on this., Mon 2 Nov 2009, 14:30, 4 replies)

I too am around Bury.
Sometimes it smells of popcorn, but it depends how the wind is blowing. The worst one is the vegetable smell, combined with the muck from the fields at certain times of the year.

Argh. I do like Bury and everything, and for the most part it's a lovely place to live (aside from all the old people), but the SMELL!
( Bats, Mon 2 Nov 2009, 15:16, closed)

Two things good
about BSE. Old Cannon Brewery and the Nutshell ;-)
(Biff..., Mon 2 Nov 2009, 16:22, closed)

I think one of my friends used to work there.

( idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Mon 2 Nov 2009, 15:25, closed)

Does it still have that 'nightclub' called 'Brazilias'?
which is quite literally a couple of Portakabins welded together..
(danniekavanagh did nothing constructive on, Tue 3 Nov 2009, 13:34, closed)