Mystery Smell Of Syrup Returns To New York

Local 6 ^ | December 9, 2005 | AP

[Para-Ord.45]

Heads up people :

Mr.Methane is gonna be on Stern in NYC tooting Xmass carols next week.

[uglybiker]

Wasn't the Manhattan DeMolay Father and Son pancake breakfast Thursday morning?

Aha! A Masonic connection! I knew it!

Darn Masons have entered into a conspiracy to make New York smell good! Those b@$t&rds!

[Larry Lucido]

Mystery Smell Of Syrup Returns To New York

And they're upset because it's masking the normal smell of piling garbage?

[mikrofon]

Oh, my God! It's a seething, bubbling,
psychic cess! Interlocked tubes of plasm,
crackling with negative GEVs! It's glowing
and moving! It's -- it's a river of slime!!

[LucyT]

It would be interesting to know wind directions in each of these incidents. Maybe someone is testing how far an odor can be carried with various wind currents in order to release a deadly chemical, later.

Someone knows what's happening, and they're concealing information from the authorities.

(How'd you find out about the phone? :>) )

[operation clinton cleanup]

Maybe someone is testing how far an odor can be carried with various wind currents in order to release a deadly chemical, later.

Interesting... just hope it is the good guys and not the bad guys experimenting. It would be disturbing if a bio/chemical agent was released with a pleasant smell to encourage inhaling, as opposed to something with a sulfur like smell.

[buccaneer81]

I remember reading about an "industrial" accident in some eastern US city where a huge vat of molasses broke and spewed the sticky stuff all down the street. Apparently was big enough that the wave of molasses drowned some people.

Good memory. In 1919 a huge storage drum of molasses broke on the Boston waterfront. The wave was high enough to kill over 20 people and dozens of horses. The area smelled like molasses for a year or more afterward.

[motzman]

(How'd you find out about the phone? :>) )

Easy

Someone knows what's happening,

THEY told me!

[Balding_Eagle]

I thought it could have been bioterrorism,

This is where all that duct tape and plastic comes in.

I think you're supposed to immeadiately wrap your car...............

[motzman]

And they're upset because it's masking the normal smell of piling garbage?

No, that was the smell of rotten tomatoes and eggs the liberals in the audience at Caroline's were throwing at me last Saturday afternoon...they didn't like this joke:

"Don't date a political extremist. Oh, by all means have sex with them, but don't date them. Why I went out with this girl that was soooo liberal (audience: How liberal was she?)

She was so liberal, when she was little, all the other kids were playing "Doctor", she was playing "Abortion Clinic"

(BOO!!! BOO!!! REFUND!!!)

[DBrow]

Sotolon is not toxic, though; it's a common food flavoring additive.

It's found in foenugreek seeds and is artificial maple syrup flavor, and is used in cheaper port wines to make them seem more "aged". The odor threshold is much less than a ppm or so.

If there were another chemical with a similar smell, I'd agree with your conjecture.

[Larry Lucido]

ROFL!

[LiveFree99]

I believe that's the modernized PC version of Auntie.

[radiohead]

LOL! Shame.on.you. : )

[motzman]

This is where all that duct tape and plastic comes in.
I think you're supposed to immeadiately wrap your car...............



This was all I could afford

[LucyT]

# 46 and # 47.

[RegulatorCountry]

"If there were another chemical with a similar smell, I'd agree with your conjecture."

This topic popped up yesterday, on another thread. I did a little searching, and came up with benzoic acid. Benzoic acid does have an odor that can be described as being like maple syrup. It's been used in research to create a substance that reduces the lethality of pulmonary anthrax exposure by 40% when used in combination with Cipro. It's also used in a substance called probenecid, which doubles the useful life of antibiotics within the body by preventing excretion through urine. This came up in reference to bird flu.

So, as a result, I came to the conclusion that if there was/is anything unusual about the presence of this odor, it's likely biodefense-related, rather than bioterror.

[RegulatorCountry]

"which doubles the useful life of antibiotics within the body"

Correction: not antibiotics. Tamiflu.

[WestCoastGal]

" I was leaving a job in Jersey right on the Hudson and could smell it--it was more of a burnt almond hazelnut kind of smell."

Burned almond scent can be cyanide.