On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:25:48 -0800, Golden California Girls wrote:

> 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.

Are you talking about my nose?

No, I just think they food they cook in there smells nasty. It's
the ingredients they use,not any sort of scrubbers or cleaning
agents. It's the store that stinks, not the exhaust.

Bread baking is not supposed to smell like that.

-sw