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Comment by Little Red Ryan Hood

Little Red Ryan Hood — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:55:03 -0800

Quick Lindy is having a stroke!

Comment by Marcel Duchump

Marcel Duchump — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:00:57 -0800

Before you die you smell The Toast

Comment by whatevernevermind

whatevernevermind — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:01:47 -0800

While we're on the topic, I have one shirt that, no matter how freshly laundered, always smells like stale peanut butter. All my shirts are made of the same fabrics. What's up with that?

Comment by djsauvage

djsauvage — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:03:48 -0800

Nose cancer.

Comment by Vikki Limehouse

Vikki Limehouse — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:04:47 -0800

OMG you guys ME TOO!!1! but srsly, i once used a bath towel as a temporary drying rack and it got near a peanut butter cooking experiment and it now permanently smells like peanut butter.

Comment by princess

princess — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:06:41 -0800

yeah-isnt that "ailment" called "having a stroke"?

Comment by edinburger

edinburger — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:07:04 -0800

I can't smell it, but...

I used to live in a city with a big brewery on the edge of town. When the wind was right (oh, nearly every evening), the smell of slightly sour toast would waft through. It's from the barley, I think.

So, Elysian / Pike Brewery?

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:08:07 -0800

It's David Schmader's new cologne, "Melba".

Comment by Nate Fisher

Nate Fisher — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:08:56 -0800

You've got a nasty case of the arteriovenous malformation (AVM)!

Comment by Greg

Greg — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:10:43 -0800

Probably a squirrel got into the wiring again.

Comment by Chris

Chris — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:11:27 -0800

In northern Indiana, the smell of toast meant you were downwind of a corn-based ethanol plant. Perhaps Gasworks has been repurposed?

Comment by Uncle Vinny

Uncle Vinny — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:11:44 -0800

When you think toast, think Heywood Banks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qZJHajlKEo

Comment by Bellevue Ave

Bellevue Ave — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:13:49 -0800

oh fnarf...you're the best

Comment by Grist

Grist — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:15:11 -0800

Sometimes the ice machine at my work smells like toast. No big deal.

Comment by elswinger

elswinger — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:15:25 -0800

When you smell toast you have seven days to live.

Comment by 11th and Pine

11th and Pine — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:16:06 -0800

I work down the street from The Stranger (no, not at The Crypt) and I always thought that smell was from KFC. Now that it's gone, I have no idea. Maybe it's the crematorium at Bonney Watson?

Comment by Reverend Z

Reverend Z — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:16:23 -0800

Isn't there an old bread factory towards the back end of Capitol Hill? And by that, I mean a factory that used to make bread - not a factory that makes old bread.

Other than that, I'd go with the Elysian beer ingredient theory. Let's hope it's not a stroke, then where would we get our Lindywest-isms?

Comment by --MC

--MC — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:19:18 -0800

The only way to cancel it out is to run into Value Village and take a deep breath of the creosote scent.

Comment by M

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:19:55 -0800

You people really DON'T have anything to talk about now the election is over, do you?

Comment by breklor

breklor — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:23:21 -0800

Who you gonna call? Toastbusters!

Comment by Garth

Garth — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:25:43 -0800

I always get a burnt-toast smell from coffee roasters. So, pretty much anywhere on the hill you're fucked.

Comment by amanda

amanda — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:26:18 -0800

i'm pretty sure the toast smell is coming from the charred remains of the bellevue/pine building. i work one block down, and the wetter it gets, the stronger the smell.

ps - that's a really big fucking tarp covering that thing.

Comment by carrma

carrma — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:27:46 -0800

You are not crazy... I work from home and smell that burnt toast smell all the time during the day. Drove me crazy for a while during the summer when I had the windows open a lot because I was afraid I had bad wiring in my office or something, but then I smelled it when I was outside and realized it was not an electrical fire waiting to happen.

My guess is that it was piecora or something... but the proposed bread factory idea makes a lot of sense too.

Comment by DLF

DLF — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:32:22 -0800

http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10211

Does it smell like Burnt Toast(tm)?

Comment by Grant Brissey

Grant Brissey — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:33:52 -0800

I've worked several different jobs around here during the last few years, and I've smelled the mysterious toast smell many times. We're not alone, as others have corroborated. Several theories include the aforementioned Elysian, and Cafe Vita, which runs a large coffee roasting operation less than a block from here.

Comment by other staffer

other staffer — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:37:23 -0800

Vivace roasts their coffee on this block too. people in the Sales dept. are always toasting things too. perhaps a climb up the stairs would answer this question.

Comment by Todd

Todd — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:55:03 -0800

I thought the sign of a stroke was the smell of burning hair?

Comment by DLF

DLF — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:01:41 -0800

Apparently the sign of a seizure is burnt toast.

Comment by Nay

Nay — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:11:06 -0800

The toast smell comes from the confluence of the Caff� Vita and Vivace roasters being within the block. The smell will get stronger and stronger as it goes, morphing from toast to burnt toast to bleh, what's that smell?
Be glad you don't sit near the window. When I was downstairs I got the lovely burnt toast and greasy KFC smorgasboard all the time. :\

Comment by Jasper's Bitch

Jasper's Bitch — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:14:27 -0800

Big Time Brewery in the U District smells like cat piss. Maybe your blood sugar level is dropping. I recommend you have some toast.

Comment by NapoleonXIV

NapoleonXIV — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:14:49 -0800

Step into the Toast, Lindy!

Mommy's in the Toast, Lindy!

Comment by flamingbanjo

flamingbanjo — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:15:55 -0800

I work a couple blocks from you. I think it's coffee roasters. Or somebody is running an illegal basement toast lab.

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:34:15 -0800

Count yourself lucky. Whenever my coworkers prepare their lunch in the microwave that is thirty feet from my face, which is now, the entire office smells like the most rancid bongwater you can possibly imagine.

Comment by NaFun

NaFun — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:15:56 -0800

Fnarf, I see what you did there.

Comment by Powdered Toast Man

Powdered Toast Man — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:57:06 -0800

Quick, Lindy! Cling tenaciously to my buttocks!

Comment by demo kid

demo kid — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:20:22 -0800

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5HO44sFRFI

I smell... burnt toast!

Watching these on TV was always funny.

Comment by Dr. Gravystain

Dr. Gravystain — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:23:35 -0800

I've lived on the the hill for over twenty years. Way before there were coffee roasters up here. Take a deep breath. Hold it. That there is roasted people from bonny-watsons.

Comment by disintegrator

disintegrator — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:41:00 -0800

it's bonney watson. That part of town always smells like dead people.

Comment by Lillian Henehan

Lillian Henehan — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:24:35 -0800

it is true. I learned from a friend that the toast smell is really the bonney watson crematorium. Nast.