rotten potatoes are among the worst of smells....Rotten onions are pretty close though!

Ew, I agree, rotten potatoes stink to high heaven. Cleaning the fridge before I go away is something I should be more diligent about too. Especially things like milk and produce.

Annie

“Rotten onions are pretty close” - that’s funny, Linda: I said the same thing to DD earlier this evening :-)

When I worked in a hotel restaurant which used to order its onions in big 20kg sacks, I could always tell if there was a rotten one just walking into the pantry.

Oh, no! I've done that and it is a horrible smell and if the bag isn't a good one, a real mess to clean up.

Madonna

In can do one better. Years ago we had a cat. I had roasted a chicken and

it was too warm to put in the fridge straight after dinner and to make sure the cat didn't get at it, i put in a cold oven that I didn't use very often. You can imagine the rest. I forgot it. The smell got worse and worse...........vile!

Kate, I love your onion sculpture! I've never smelled rotten potatoes, thankfully. Sadly I can top you all. If you have a squeamish stomach, read no further:

At the ripe age of 18 and on my own, I left what will forever remain an unknown dish in the back of the fridge far after the power went out in it. The one thing I missed in cleaning out the fridge. A full week later I smelled something beyond foul... opened it up to find 'crawlies'. I screamed, donned plastic gloves and used long tongs to remove it from the house. I'm still not over the horror.

We used to host a Pre Thanksgiving Feast and Fiasco for all of our friend, many who were too broke to make it home for the holiday.

We had a 1950s stove that had a warming oven.

We had our party, then left the next day for a week with the relatives.

We had left a roast beef in the warmer!

I think we had to spend 2 nights at my parents' house leaving the doors open before we could return! (We lived in the country and in those days no one locked their doors!)

Oh, that sounds ghastly, Nancyjane.

I have one too! I have zero recollection of doing this, but one day as I was setting the table I got a whiff of something foul. Next night, same thing, and again. I couldn't figure out where it was coming from. The cabinet only held dishes, and there was nothing on the counter or in drawers below. I also thought it must be a mouse in the wall until some days later I discovered that someone (probably me) put the cream and sugar containers back into the top shelf without emptying the cream.

colleenoz It WAS! Sherri, I also remember having a rainy Easter and hiding eggs inside the house......ONE egg not found!