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 ...
Maybe you should sell vacation packages to Germans.
That business wouldn’t last long due to the lynching of the proprietress.
Readjust that hose until it’s two inches below the tail and that gal will let loose with some industrial bangers.
Did your Momma have a sensitive nose too? That’s the smell of money in a feedlot.
I was born on a farm, and Coalinga is no farm.
The cows walk around in six inches their own urine and feces, and it becomes a gawdawful stench, especially in the summer.
I have no problem with cow flops, horse manure, etc. I even have four indoor cats, FHS! And I live in the middle of thousands of acres of farmland with a cattle ranch down the street (well, a loooong way down the street, but still).
I’ll tell you what, this smell will make even the toughest farmer’s eyes water, and it will induce a gag reflex in almost anyone.
I never asked my mother if she had a sensitive nose. She’s been dead for 41 years.
Sounds like the Germans, uh huh.
Coalinga is a feedlot.
I was trying to be funny when I asked if Mom had a senstive nose too. I apologize if you took it wrong.
For all you divorced ladies out there nostalgic over your EX’s nocturnal emissions, I am selling Beer Farts in a Can, online at WWW.GITYERFARTSHERENOSTALGIA.COM....$4.99 plus shipping, 12 Oz (by volume) - In a convenient Bud-like pop top can....
How do you make a profit? I know mine are precious and wouldn't sell them to you for less than $6.50....
[with apologies to the South Park Underpants Gnomes]
There ya go. That girl is dangerous now. Stand back, waaaaay back!
I used to live at NAS Lemoore, and for a time went to the CC in Coalinga. This was a long time ago. Was the farm there then?
All I remember was the fog! lol
It sounds like Tillamook. You drive over the coastal range, and down into the valley...and hold your nose all the way through it to the coast.
Actually B4Ranch has corrected me. It’s a feed lot, not a farm.
Hubby and I used to vacation in Bodega Bay when we lived in Southern California, and we first encountered *the smell* on the drive there in the 1980’s.
Yes, we ran into The Fog a few times, when we had to crawl along at 10 MPH for miles until it lifted or we drove out of it. Scary.
Oh, that is wonderful! I hadn’t seen The People’s Cube’s take on what I have recently learned to call Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alteration. I’ll have to go there and see what else they have.
Acronym reminder: "Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alteration" is CACA.
Funny image from People's Cube, H/T to DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis ; funny thread.
You mean that you lived in SoCal and you actually noticed the smell in Coalinga? lol
I’m just teasing you. ;o)
I lived there in the ‘70s, and didn’t smell a thing. That was the best part about the place. ;o)
One thing I still love is the memories of going up to Three Rivers. What a beautiful area!
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