Did you smell that? Last Thursday night, the city smelled of maple syrup, in a big way. Here are our notes from last week:
7:15 p.m.: Emerge from apartment in West Village - it smells like maple syrup. That's funny, I think to myself. I must be dreaming, or else someone has dropped a bottle on the sidewalk somewhere. I say nothing to my companion. Get in cab.
7:30 p.m.: Emerge from cab in Chelsea - it smells like maple syrup. I mention this to my companion. She agrees. We both look up at the sky. No sign of maple syrup there. We enter the Rubin Museum (opening of a wonderful exhibit on Himalayan Art).
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When I clicked where you said you found "this", there was nothing there. Maybe the statute of limitations on Times articles ends after a while.
- Curtis
If terrorists find a way to scent their chemical agents to smell like Krispy Kreme doughnuts, we're all screwed.
same problem here... but yo, here are two NYT links to maple-smell stories!
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/29/nyregion/29smell.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/28/nyregion/28odor.html
suddenly i'm reminded of dorothy and co. in the poppy field.
We smelled it all the way in Brooklyn Heights! Our neighbor was smoking and stinking up our room, and we were trying to find where the odor was leaking in. Husband said, "try the window!" so I opened it, took a whiff, and said "Nope, no smoke - smells like breakfast!" and didn't think about it again until I read the article. Crazy.
I love this post! I live in East Williamsburg and when I came home from a party that night, my husband and I noticed the distinct maple syrup smell - which we had also smelled on the upper east side. So bizarre.