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Cow fart cans offer 'authentic smell of countryside'
metro.co.uk ^ | March 4, 2011

Posted on 03/04/2011 1:16:09 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

Cans filled with the aroma of cow farts are proving a big hit with shoppers - despite costing £5 a tin.

Tins filled with the air sucked out of an ageing wooden stable, straw lined and filled with gas producing cattle has become an instant hit after it went on sale in Germany.

Managers of the 'Countryside air to go' project say their clients are mainly country people who have moved to the city and want to be reminded of home.

The cans cost £5 a pop and can be ordered from the web site www.stallduft.de

One advert boasts: 'Simply put your nose to the tin and peel back the lid for the authentic smell of the country'.

Designer Daniela Dorrer from the village of Adlkofen in Bavaria in Germany said: 'We hope to make people who miss the countryside happy and remind them of home.

(Excerpt) Read more at metro.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: cowfart; dairyair; fart; napl
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1 posted on 03/04/2011 1:16:11 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Slings and Arrows

Odorous ping!


2 posted on 03/04/2011 1:17:42 PM PST by day10 (Integrity has no need of rules.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This thread stinks!!!! (sarc)


3 posted on 03/04/2011 1:19:36 PM PST by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Hubby’s always saying, “Pull my finger.” I’d be rich if there were a market for that.


4 posted on 03/04/2011 1:21:07 PM PST by bgill (Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

They’d love it in Tulare County, CA.


5 posted on 03/04/2011 1:21:45 PM PST by abigailsmybaby ("To understan' the livin', you gotta commune wit' da dead." Minerva)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Can -O- Cowpie.


6 posted on 03/04/2011 1:22:43 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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7 posted on 03/04/2011 1:23:27 PM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis (Want to make $$$? It's easy! Use FR to pimp your blog!!!)
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8 posted on 03/04/2011 1:24:02 PM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis (Want to make $$$? It's easy! Use FR to pimp your blog!!!)
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9 posted on 03/04/2011 1:26:30 PM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis (Want to make $$$? It's easy! Use FR to pimp your blog!!!)
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To: cripplecreek; windcliff

Can - O - PU?


10 posted on 03/04/2011 1:27:19 PM PST by I Drive Too Fast
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Great, mentally dernged marketing strikes again.


11 posted on 03/04/2011 1:31:35 PM PST by Darksheare (Dear Interdimensional Monstrosity, I fear our relationship has taken a turn for the worse...)
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To: Free ThinkerNY; Slings and Arrows; Daffynition; JoeProBono
If they don't pass it naturally, the gas builds up and this is what happens.


12 posted on 03/04/2011 1:35:17 PM PST by paulycy (Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Dernged?
Deranged, sorry for the typo.


13 posted on 03/04/2011 1:35:24 PM PST by Darksheare (Dear Interdimensional Monstrosity, I fear our relationship has taken a turn for the worse...)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Save on gas — fart in a can.


14 posted on 03/04/2011 1:40:19 PM PST by 353FMG (Liberalism = Communism under the guise of compassion.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This story doesn’t pass the smell test...


15 posted on 03/04/2011 1:40:31 PM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: paulycy

16 posted on 03/04/2011 1:44:12 PM PST by Daffynition ( DBKP ~ Death By 1000 Papercuts)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

I make these. It's a cottage industry I started...please visit my blog, I need the money.

17 posted on 03/04/2011 1:47:35 PM PST by Daffynition ( DBKP ~ Death By 1000 Papercuts)
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To: Daffynition

Heh heh...lol. And your blog would probably be lots better than those of most pimps.....heh heh *snort*


18 posted on 03/04/2011 1:50:02 PM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis (Want to make $$$? It's easy! Use FR to pimp your blog!!!)
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19 posted on 03/04/2011 1:52:01 PM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis (Want to make $$$? It's easy! Use FR to pimp your blog!!!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Never overestimate people. I knew a group of kindred souls that use to collect passed gas in mason jars and save it for each other to smell.

No, I wasn’t a member of the group.


20 posted on 03/04/2011 1:54:37 PM PST by meatloaf
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