re: What’s the worst thing you’ve ever smelled?

First job was at a boat launch / rv park on the Red River. I just did everything; filled the boats up, took out trash, worked the cash register, weedeat around the property all that crap. My boss pissed off the trash company, probably didn't pay his bill then tried to negotiate. So we started throwing bags into a dump truck. One night there was a crawfish boil...all the crap went into the dump truck. Magically the trash company was coming to pick up, but I had to get into the back and shovel rotten trash into the dumpster. I still don't know why I didn't say; to hell with this y'all do it. I was puking it was so gross.

I remember back in my frat days we used to think of things to do to the new pledges. Not physical brutality, but other ideas. One guy dipped and would spit in a bottle. He filled the entire bottle over the course of a couple months and then set it out in the hot Louisiana sun the entire summer. He planned on dumping it on them. We rented a bunch of cabins at a campground for out retreat. During one of our pledge events he took the lid off and as soon as I (and everybody else) caught a whiff we all started gagging and throwing up. Pledges were throwing up on each other. I don't know if he ever actually dumped it on them or not because I went outside the cabin, it was so foul.

My 10 year old was fishing one spring about 10 years back using hot dogs as bait. He had them in a ziplock bag and when he was done he put his tackle box away in his bedroom closet......with 4 hotdogs still in the ziploc. A couple months later there was a horrible smell coming from upstairs and we searched for the origin and discovered the ziploc, now with 4 liquified hot dogs, and a smell so bad that it's still burned in my olfactories.

Katrina trunk freezer full of fish and deer and duck and shite. It was probably 3 weeks before I got to it.

GI bleed during a colonoscopy. The entire ICU was rancid smelling, but the room was brutal. I still have PTSD from that.

I feed raw green tripe to my dog. The smell is an abomination.

Close race between Katrina fridges and surstromming (canned fish from europe)

worked at rental yard after Hurricane Harvey. Mostly oilfield stuff but we had some dumpsters that went out.

We got one back from a flooded out Walmart. for some reason, it didn't go the landfill. Been sitting out for weeks in the heat filled with at one point frozen pizzas and other food.

It was indescribably bad. The juices that leaked out alone were enough to make you puke on the spot

Burning bodies in a motor vehicle incident.

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Katrina fridge. 1

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Katrina freezer for me. It was on my ground floor in the man cave and had fallen over from the rising water. I didn't get back to N.O. for about 3 weeks after the storm and I had fish, shrimp, lots of already prepared food I had cooked and stored, beef, pork, chickens, etc..

The freezer fell face down and one of my nephews and I righted it and such nasty stuff started leaking out of it and had us gagging uncontrollably. We did manage to get it outside and I probably used half a roll of duct tape to keep that damn thing closed.