On 12/1/10 1:32 PM, Retirednoguilt wrote:
> On 12/1/2010 9:49 AM, Golden California Girls wrote:
>> On 11/30/10 8:30 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
>>> Does anybody else cringe when they walk or drive by a Subway
>>> sandwich shop?
>>>
>>> The bread does NOT smell appetizing at all. It doesn't even smell
>>> like real bread. And I don't know what else they got going on in
>>> there during various hot sandwich promotions but it doesn't mix
>>> well with whatever else they got going on in there.
>>>
>>> I haven't eaten at Subway since Channingway Court in Columbus, Ohio
>>> in 1997 and the stench coming from these places guarantees I won't
>>> be eating there anytime again soon.
>>
>> Of course it stinks outside. Required pollution control equipment on the
>> ovens to reduce greenhouse gasses.
> You've got me curious. According to what you say, the pollution control
> equipment must be converting the flue exhaust to other chemicals (that
> smell foul to some people) rather than absorbing the pollutants in the flue
> exhaust (in which case there would be no odor). So, what chemicals are
> coming out of the pollution control equipment that smell foul but are not
> polluting?

Pollution is what the government requires smokestack tests for. Ususally
things like oxides of nitrogen, ozone, unburned hydrocarbons, or visible
carbon (soot). Since Subway now does eggs, there is a ready source of
sulfur. A incorrectly designed or operated after burner (pollution control
equipment) could easily pump out oxides of sulfur or hydrogen sulfide. Not
the best smells in the world. Of course this may have nothing to do with
his nose. Perhaps he has a reaction to some cleaning substance they use.

Since dozens of people aren't agreeing with him it may just be him or the
Subway he regularly encounters. I don't have an adverse reaction to them
and no one I know does either and they obviously do a good chunk of
business. No their bread doesn't smell like a good rye or sourdough, it
smells more like Wonder.


Now I have smelled a extremely foul baking smell, but not from a Subway but
from La Brea Bakery. They are next door to a Budweiser plant. One day the
wind picked up the beer smell and the baking smell, the combination was
nearly enough to make you retch. I suspect it was the particular beer
being brewed and the particular bread being baked as normally the two
together weren't a problem. A clash of yeasts.