My Tip For The Day...

If you ever deliver salt to a tannery, breathe through your mouth. And Frebeeze is your friend. I thought feedlots had a "unique" scent. Ugh...

When I pulled food-grade tanker I used to pick up liquid lard from the slaughterhouses. Strong smells rarely bother me the way they do most people but I think most people would nearly barf the first time they pull into a slaughterhouse. Awful stench.

Years ago I used to haul frozen pig and cow skins from the slaughter houses in Amarillo Tx. I still have that smell in the back of my throat. It's one of those smells where the air is so thick with the oder that you can taste it.

Nothing worse than having a pallet (only 6 skins per pallet) fall other and you have to re stack it and you thought you would not need your gloves. First and last time I made that mistake. Smelling like a slaughter house in the middle of August is not my idea of a pleasant smell.

Oh man Flatwater, that is a smell that I know well - there is something about that smell that seems to get into the linings of your nasal passages. Every time I get near that smell it seems that I can smell it for days afterward, even after changing clothes and bathing, it still seems to stick with you. Just reading your post made me start thinking I could smell it.

So much for breakfast now....