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Originally Posted by Fledchen

I just woke up from a nap and my apartment reeks of burnt garlic. Why is it that only the bad cooking smells from the neighbors invade? Maybe my neighbors are just bad cooks.

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

i used to have neighbors who loved to make fried fish. to me this is the most vile cooking odour i've ever experienced ; whenever they did, it would pervade the entire building, including my appartment, although as soon as i smelled it i would run to close all the windows and light some incense.

We had neighbours who were addicted to barbecuing - whatever the weather! If it was raining hard, they'd set up on the drive and cook under the shelter of the garage door, otherwise they'd be in the back garden. This wouldn't have been a problem, except the meat they cooked invariably smelt very, very odd - almost as if the fat on it was rancid and burning.

one day, i smelled an ever worse odour. it was so revolting, so nauseating, so unbearably stinky that even the incense couldn't cover it, and i choked on the foulness and cursed my neighbors and their revolting taste and wondered what on earth they could possibly be cooking and how any human could possibly eat anything that gave off such a stench.

the next day i discovered that in fact one of the building's plastic garbage bins had caught / been set on fire in the street in front of the building ; so what i had smelled was in fact burning plastic and garbage. it didn't make me like the fried fish any better though.