Downwind from a steakhouse...
I usually leave my office between 7:30 and 8pm (read: diner time) and have to travel a few main roads to get to the highway. This puts me past a mall and several plazas with restaurants on both sides of the roadway. That's the time I roll down the windows and inhale the smell of cooked food, especially from a few steakhouses along the way! I actually enjoy waiting at a red light for the aroma of cooked food.Just past the half-way point puts me in Hollywood and a really large plaza with several restaurants on the perimeter road alongside the Interstate and again... it's time to roll down the window and catch the smell of grilled steak wafting over the highway...
They have TGI Friday's, Red Lobster, Miller's Ale House, Dave & Busters next to each other and the smell is awesome!
The best part of all this is smelling cooked food has no calories...
On a similar thought, more than a decade ago I read where a company patented a scent simulator device that could create different aromas. Typically they were fragrances but also had some 'earthy' smells like freshly cut grass and the smell of the air after a rain. Not sure if it was an invention that went nowhere as many patented inventions other than a prototype or two never find a way to the consumer market.
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