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No! No! No! Stop it! The bad ideas topic!

liuzhou

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Ddanno

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2 hours ago, blue_dolphin said:

Benton's Country Hams released a limited offering of smoky bacon scented dryer sheets for Fathers Day.  Ten individually vacuum sealed sheets bundled with a T-shirt and 3 packs of bacon for $75

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If you think that's a better idea than I do, I’m sorry to inform you that they sold out but you can find a link here to sign up to be notified of the next release:

https://www.bentonssmokedsheets.com 

 

 

 

My British brain just cannot comprehend this.

 

These are tumble dryer sheets that will make your clothes (and tumble dryer, and the room where the tumble dryer is, and wherever you subsequently store the clothes, and all clothes in said furniture, and that room as well, and then the wearer) smell of bacon?

 

And not real bacon, American bacon?!

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Margaret Pilgrim

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A truly bad idea!     I am appalled by open plan homes that make no allowance for cooking odors.    We whisk clothes from laundry area to closets in order to avoid lamb chop scented shirts!    i can't fathom anyone's intentionally imbuing clothes with farm kitchen odors!

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Tropicalsenior

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15 minutes ago, Margaret Pilgrim said:

A truly bad idea

One of the things that I hated most about being a breakfast line cook was leaving every day smelling like bacon and sausage. That was 40 years ago and to this day, I'm not crazy about either one.

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Smithy

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Out here in the Minnesota woods, I keep thinking about all the bears that are now out of hibernation. It's difficult enough to keep them away without wearing an attractant!

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Margaret Pilgrim

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I think also of riding city buses early in the morning while sitting next to some person who is perfumed by what they served the family for breakfast that morning.  I was always saddened that they had to go through their day With kitchen smells.   However, It was anthropologically interesting to note the different flavor profiles by culture.

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blue_dolphin

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For years, I walked to work, 4-6 miles, depending in my route, through Santa Monica to UCLA. Much of my walk was in areas filled with 2- and 3-storey apartment buildings and I was often surprised how frequently i picked up the scent of bacon since I thought of it as a weekend treat.  I was kinda jealous of those mid-week bacon eaters.
Never got a whiff of it when I walked through the pricey areas.  Maybe because their houses were set back from the sidewalk or maybe they didn’t appreciate the pig as much as the rest of us!

 

 

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