Ober Dicta

3:13 PM

Via continuing discussion of the Manhattan Mystery Smell over on Metafilter, two updates on the story. My favorite excerpts:

One (New Yorker) questioned whether the Chock Full o' Nuts plant near the Gowanus Canal might be responsible. Another asked if the old Domino's sugar factory in Williamsburg had come back online.At an IHOP on Richmond Avenue in Staten Island, employees simply giggled when the subject was broached.

..."Tell the city I want a lot of butter delivered to the neighborhood," said attorney Stephanie Carvlin, who first detected a pancake odor as she walked to dinner in TriBeCa Thursday night.

...A labor organizer, Rekha Eanni, said she could not characterize the exact smell, but after getting out of a night class at New York University she was overcome with a craving for pumpkin pie. When she got home there was no pie, so she did something she never does. "I made myself a pretty big bowl of vanilla ice cream with honey and cornflakes," she said.

Comments:

This is a pretty weird story, although at least not as deadly as the Great Boston Molasses Flood.

# posted by

Dr John K : November 02, 2005 5:59 AM

BTW, is there some way you can reconfigure the comments so that one can pop up the window directly from the "Comments" link on the main page? As it stands, it requires one to click to the article directly, then click to pop up the window.

# posted by

Dr John K : November 02, 2005 6:01 AM

If I correctly understand what you're asking, I don't think so. But I'll tinker with Blogger's commenting settings and see what I can do.

# posted by

Seth : November 02, 2005 3:30 PM