<![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back! - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back! - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> It's been 18 years since I've lived in NYC, but there was a company near Hazlet, NJ called International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF) and depending on the day of the week, you could smell chocolate, maple and the worst- banana- all over the metro area. Perhaps they are the source?

They spewed many other "fragrances", some would make our eyes water and heads ache! (Sort of like Carteret, NJ)

bfoster

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @Ummwhat: Very glad to hear it.

Bell County

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @Bell County: Okay, so I read some info on this disease, panicked, melted into a puddle, reconstituted myself enough to make it downstairs to talk to my husband who was asleep on the couch. Since he is not a pediatrician, he was no help. Called my mommy. She gave me permission to call the doc (it was 9:30 and I hate to bother people). So, my pediatrician said we would have known by now if there was a problem. NJ screens for Maple Syrup Urine Disease at birth. The boy is fine. The mommy needs a drink. Furious George needs a big group hug because he is my hero! Now I am going to end this comment before I get weepy and start singing some sappy Bette Midler song.

Ummwhat

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> I'm now actually a bit worried about Ummwhat. Please report back.

Bell County

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @AndIAmTellingYou: That gave me my first real earsplitting laugh of the day. Thanks!

maxfield1

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> Seriously, what the fuck, people?
Tairrists from Vermont?

Cthulhah Bankhead

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> When I lived in Chicago in the early 90s, late at night the entire downtown area was often enveloped in the sweet smell of fresh baked brownies. It turned out it was coming from a factory that made some no-name brand of chocolate snack cakes. One night the factory exploded, raining raw chocolate batter goop all over the area.

True story.

lionel-mandrake

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> No no -- it's Vermont.

They are probably tired of themselves (who isn't at the end of February... especially when it has an Additional Day)?

My only confusion is why they would want to pick on you guys for Your weather, since it is also pitiable.

You're already thanking me for the absence of Birkenstock and chai jokes?

Whoops.

TimeWarnerRhymeAnaheim

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> ok so sadly i moved to palo alto recently (hi valleywag) but while running on stanfords campus there is this one building behind which it ALWAYS SMELLS LIKE SYRUP. there is a connection here, i know it

s

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> CITY of Pancakes!
(O the fresh pankes! O yummy Pankes!
O the moist wonderful waffles and griddle cakes
City of the world! (for all breakfast syrups are here Honey Child…
Walt Whitman and Mrs. Butterworth 1862

Nesbiteme

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> whatchu talkin' bout willis?
i nevah smelldis

slimceagirl

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> I'm gonna make some giant pancakes just in case!

Rosewater

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @In Other News...: It's a little-known fact that, while busy reading Gawker, I pace around my office, popping vicodin and leaning on my cane, thinking of snarky ways to insult people.

Furious George

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @She Blinded Me With Omniscience: There was this one time they sent in an expeditionary force. They got as far as Utica, specifically the thrift shop on Western Avenue. We beat them back with their own bacon.

In Other News...

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @Steverino: Hey, their siren warning system works fine, why shouldn't their maple syrup scent machine? (Which is hard to clean, because it's always sticky.)

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]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @Furious George: Furious George? Dr. Furious George is more like it!

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]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @Michael Jahn: Now that's funny. Well played, sir, well played.

drugman

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @In Other News...: You have no idea how much safer I feel.

Lysergic Asset

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> It's just an olfactory mass hallucination. Happens all the time.

Either that, or Giant Maple Ents are lurking in the abandoned subway tunnels, preparing to mount their attack on the city.

Giant Maple Ents. Yeah, that must be it.

MisterHippity

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> Or Andrea Peyser ate Spanish food again.

Steverino

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> Don't be so paranoid. It's just another leak from the Indian Point nuclear plant a few miles north.

Steverino

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @In Other News...: Oh wait, I don't smell it. Turns out I'm in Liechtenstein.

In Other News...

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @She Blinded Me With Omniscience: That's right - America is like a great big old buffer zone for Mexico, isn't it? To protect it from those darn Canadians?

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]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> ZOMG I SMELL IT!!!!!1! I'm in the vicinity of... oh wait, Batman doesn't say where the BatCave is, why should I say where (REDACTED) is?

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]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> Mass ketosis devolving from the resurgence of Atkins.

Michael Jahn

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @dado: I really didn't say that to be facetious, though. One of my best friends' newborn daughters suffered from this disease, and while rare, it can be serious. I'm just trying to help here.

Furious George

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @Furious George:

That was oddly servicey of you.

karion

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> Having watched There Will Be Blood attentively, I think we're experiencing "seepage". Daniel Plainview will arrive soon to drink our mikshake.

drugman

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @Furious George: And on that note...have a nice weekend!

dado

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @weazel: First let me say that I do this all the time! So I'm totally not writing this to make fun! (Promise!)

But I think "all the windows were clothes" is just beautifully poetic in that fashion-week-just-ended kinda mid-winter-blues-y sense. Makes me wanna design somethin'!

DorothyMantooth

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @Ummwhat: Umm. I'm not sure if you're kidding or not, but urine that smells like maple syrup can be a sign of a serious and life-threatening endocrine problem. Don't mean to panic you or anything. Just trying to give you a heads up:

[en.wikipedia.org]

Furious George

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @In Other News...: Awesome! I. Am. There!

DorothyMantooth

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> I think it's part of Canada's subversive plan to invade America.

Lysergic Asset

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @the supergoddess: Haha! I think I just offended the office old guy for laughing out loud.

Where the hell is PimpMyCouch for this convo? I'd be curious to know if the Canadians really enjoy maple syrup as much as their gift shops lead me to believe they do.

Oh - maple syrup on grape nuts cereal - gravel-y to heavenly.

fiveinchtaint

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @weazel: because what? we're all a buncha fahkin' drunks? (yes, yes we are actually. stereotypes come from somewhere!)

the supergoddess

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> Smelt it last night on Riverside, too. Made me want to lick the sidewalks. Yum.

meechybee

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> Boston's molasses stockpiles were due to rum production. I don't know how much rum production their was in NY. However, I do know that on the Upper East Side there are remains of buried cisterns from all the old German breweries, which apparently give shelter to mosquitos.

weazel

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @CodePink: Ma. Perhaps Nellie Olsen. Gotta change that avatar picture.

Fuzzy_duffel_bag

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> I've been smelling it on the UWS for five years, maybe more. Early morning is most common. Once at 3 in the morning I went out looking for it, thinking it a local phenomenon.

It's more malty than mapley. Or malted maple.

Lately it's been inside, even tho in winter all the windows were clothes. Earlier this week the smell got into my clothes it was so strong.

weazel

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @DorothyMantooth: Hah! You are invited over for the rerun of that episode.

In Other News...

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @fiveinchtaint: those cookies do something wholly unnatural to me. I negotiate with myself before buying them, like "okay, you can have a box but you're not eating for at least a day and a half afterwards. and that'll cost you an extra half hour on the arc trainer, plus four sets of walking lunges." "ouch, four sets? okay, fine - fair enough." "but just one box! I see that look in your eyes." "YOU NEVER LET ME HAVE ANY FUN!"

the supergoddess

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> I think it's Mapplethorpe Syrup.

dado

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> i want to know who these people are that are making calls to report smelling maple syrup.

surreal

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @Botswana Meat Commission FC: Boston smells like young college ass as soon as the sun comes out...in late May.

drugman

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @Fuzzy_duffel_bag: Pa?
@fiveinchtaint: There's still time.
@sedated: Yeah, that's some fancy stuff right there. Delicious!

CodePink

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @Michael Jahn: Found year-round in the subways but citywide whenever the temperate exceeds 80 degrees.

Michael Jahn

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @CodePink: Ah, youth. We did the same thing with vanilla extract and sugar. In retrospect we should have tried to snort it, a la "Better Off Dead."

Sargasm

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> I would like to bottle and sell to homesick NYC expats that found-nowhere-else scent of piss, machine oil and ozone.

Michael Jahn

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @Itsjustcatnip: Ohhhhhhhhhh! Late-entry commie!

Probably too contextual, though.

TheHonJudgeSmails

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @InternMary: Personally I like it better over pancakes, but do your thing.

Itsjustcatnip

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> Boston has supposedly had a molasses smell in certain parts for years now...

[en.wikipedia.org]

Botswana Meat Commission FC

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @LolCait: Well, it's been longer than 10 seconds. So I'm pretty sure it's not Northrax.

DorothyMantooth

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @the supergoddess: You're a pepper too! Those maple cookies are insane! I never buy them because I'd eat them all immediately. I've not yet found a maple candy that gives me the same maple boner as the cookies or the syrup. Suggestions? Best maple syrup I had was on a maple-infused (!) waffle somewhere in Vermont. But I was super hung over so I might be exaggerating the memory. Maple butter. Mmm.

@CodePink: Can't believe I never thought of that!

fiveinchtaint

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> I'll take maple syrup over the normal cloud of ass that usually wafts in from NJ anyday.

Sorry, it was just too easy.

InternMary

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> I've smelled this smell in New York occasionally for the past decade. I have no idea why it became a news item suddenly last year. Maybe I just have a sensitive nose. Now, can anyone explain the intermittent banana candy smell in Long Island City?

Kakapo

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @CodePink: Laura Ingalls?

Fuzzy_duffel_bag

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> Entities that could be behind this:

IHOP
Aunt Jemima
Bisquick
The state of Vermont
Terrorists

My guess? The creators of Flippin' Flapjack:
[images.boardgamegeek.com]

JDel

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @fiveinchtaint: When we were little, my siblings and I used to take cupfulls of freshly fallen snow and pour maple syrup on them. Snow cones!

CodePink

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @the supergoddess: Grandma?

Fuzzy_duffel_bag

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @fiveinchtaint: can we talk about maple sugar candy? how about those newfangled maple cookies with the maple filling? maple butter? oh, I could go on and on and on about maple. maple maple maple maple... even the word is scrumptious!

the supergoddess

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> Does Cloverfield give off a smell?

AndIAmTellingYou

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> Well, it was either Maple Syrup or New Car Smell, so consider yourselves lucky.

Colonel Mustard

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> Don't you worry that it's just a sweet sweet diversion? Is some company handing out pink slips again?

Itsjustcatnip

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @AndIAmTellingYou: Dealt it!

oudiallify

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @LolCait: CLOVERFIELD MONSTER WANTS WAFFLES!!!

BettyCrocker

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> Whoever smelt it...

AndIAmTellingYou

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @CodePink: That's my dream. Maple syrup is my favorite thing of all time. I might be OK with drowning in it.

fiveinchtaint

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> This happened at a really old factory I worked at. Turns out that the building in the early, early 1900's had been a candy factory in it's infancy, and the smell was related to that.

Perhaps NYC is built upon some sort of prehistoric Candyland?

Evgeni Merkin

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> @CodePink: I poured ass all over Alphabet City.

TheHonJudgeSmails

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> When my baby pees himself he smells like maple syrup. Then my husband and I put him over our pancakes. Yummy!

Ummwhat

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> SECRET MILITARY EXPERIMENTS, TESTING TO SEE AN URBAN POPULATION'S REACTION TIME TO A GAS ATTACK.

LolCait

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> It's people. It's people.


+ Watch video

drugman

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> And I was the that poured sulphur everywhere when the whole city smelled like gas last year, too.

CodePink

]]> <![CDATA[Maple Syrup Smell is Back!]]> Okay, fine, I confess--I poured maple syrup all over the city.

CodePink

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