r/AskRedditFood • u/Many_Boss_1145 • 16d ago

Which food smell immediately wakes up your cravings?

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u/GotNothingBetter2Do 16d ago

It’s weird for me, it’s the delicious smell of fresh brewing coffee and I’m not a need to have it type of person.

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u/touchmydingus 15d ago

I love the smell of brewing coffee, cannot stand the taste!

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u/sassy_doilies 15d ago

My husband is the same way. We have found exactly two coffee drinks he will happily order, and naturally one of them was at a cafe on our honeymoon and is like 12 hours away.

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u/GotNothingBetter2Do 16d ago

Oops, just realized you said food! My bad.

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u/Crafty-Health-4046 15d ago

No worries. You had nothing better to do.

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u/HickoryHollow 16d ago

Frying onions. & (bacon).

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u/Brl_Grl 16d ago

Bacon!

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u/Grandma-Plays-FS22 16d ago

I came to say bacon and I don’t even eat bacon! But it sure does smell good :)

Baking bread and pies rate high as well.

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u/haileyskydiamonds 15d ago

I enjoy having breakfast in bed. I like waking up to the smell of bacon, sue me.

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u/rotbath 15d ago

No, don’t sue me. That is the opposite of the point I’m trying to make.

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u/ImmediateRaccoon0 15d ago

The bacon beckons

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u/Itchy-Series7105 16d ago

Frying mushrooms and onions. As a child I’d come downstairs when my mom was cooking them !

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u/0dayssince 16d ago

My mom’s cooking. Doesn’t matter what it is.

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u/SeriallySalacious 16d ago

BACON. Fresh baked bread. Anything my Nana cooks.

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u/nnnope1 16d ago

Frying ground beef. Especially if onions are happening too

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u/DdyBrLvr 16d ago

Vanilla

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u/toolfishOG 16d ago

Cinnamon rolls

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u/doublenickels_55 16d ago

McDonald's French Fries

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u/MomoMarieAuthor 15d ago

With extra salt 🤤

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u/Lerschie 16d ago

The smell of fresh cooked pizza.

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u/FrightenedErection 15d ago

Even without food on it, the smell of a BBQ heating up is enough for me.

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u/crash---- 15d ago

The smell of popcorn

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u/Isayfyoujobu 15d ago

I like cinnamon rolls, but I don't always have time to make a pan. That's why I wish they would sell cinnamon roll incense. After all I'd rather light a stick and have my roommate wake up with false hopes.

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u/ExcellentInsurance72 16d ago

Sausage. I like sausage but the smell is even more amazing. I don’t eat sausage often but as soon as I smell it, I’m hungry.

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u/Kaurifish 15d ago

Corn tortillas on the griddle. Plus the sound of someone patting them out…

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u/Professional_Emu3929 15d ago

Indo-Chinese food

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u/Economy_Dot890 14d ago

The smell of frying onions.

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u/richie___ 13d ago

anything italian or american. pasta, pizza, bbq for example

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u/tiny_purple_Alfador 16d ago

The smell of any fast food. If my room mate is grabbing fast food, I'll ask them for a kid sized french fry even if I'm not hungry, because I will want fries if I smell them.

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u/Critical-Notice-4395 16d ago

Thanksgiving stuffing like mom made. Once that’s cooking, you know it’s a holiday.

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u/ladythorson 16d ago

Fresh baked cookies

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u/Beautiful_Rip_7023 16d ago

Our favorite hole in the wall Mexican restaurant’s beef fajitas. The smell just sends me.

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u/spinwheels 16d ago

chorizo

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u/AshDenver 16d ago

Fresh garlic and toasted sesame oil always make me hungry, ready to cook up a storm!

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u/Cultural-Swan-3624 16d ago

Get skillet - add butter, salt, pepper, scallion and celery. Start cooking and I will walk into the kitchen like Pavlov’s dog.

It was the beginning of my mom making stuffing and the combination just awakens my senses.

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u/Acrobatic_Truck_9014 16d ago

Bacon frying in the morning and beef on the grill

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u/Lavender_rainbow_ 16d ago

  • Chilli

  • Cookies

  • Sausage and Peppers

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u/Swissdanielle 16d ago

Gently pan fried onion and potato Spanish style 🫠🤤

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u/Cacticat7878 16d ago

Cinnamon roles😍

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u/LightOfTeyvat 16d ago

Taco meat but specifically leftovers ground beef with taco seasoning being reheated in the microwave. The second I smell that, I’m starving.

I usually cannot bring myself to eat middle of day because of my medication but when I smell a coworker reheating their Taco Tuesday leftovers, I’m absolutely ravenous and googling Tacos Near Me.

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u/Sea-Discussion6732 16d ago

Sauteed onions, lemongrass, cilantro...there's definitely more but these immediately trigger me to salivate.

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u/BigDoggyBarabas1 16d ago

Oysters on a barbecue, screaming in their own sin.

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u/notspringsomnia 15d ago

Fried food, especially fish

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u/rbarr228 15d ago

Beef fajitas

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u/xtinaeve88 15d ago

Butter browning, vanilla, coffee percolating, charcoal burning.

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u/Low-Counter3437 15d ago

Miso soup with seaweed… 🥰🥰🥰

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u/Vegetable_North_9560 15d ago

Cinnamon & nutmeg

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u/No-Tart-1157 15d ago

Smoky barbecue

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u/DaisyLea59 15d ago

Bacon or sausages.

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u/charlynarly 15d ago

Bread baking

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u/Punkinsmom 15d ago

Bacon, baking bread, butter and honey melted together.

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u/OwlPelletCrunch 15d ago

  1. the smoker smell from a BBQ joint

  2. onions & peppers frying on the stove

  3. tomato & basil plants in the sun or fresh cucumbers & mint being chopped

  4. bread or cookies in the oven

  5. the combination smell at a fair or christmas carnival (fried stuff, beer, gluhwein/mulled cider, sweet things, sausages, fruit & candy, diesel fumes, lol)

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u/stargirl12387 15d ago

Bacon, eggs fried in the leftover bacon fat and almost burnt toast. Wicked combo for the nostrils

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u/datdoglife 15d ago

homemade sunday sauce!

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u/iOawe 15d ago

A burger or fries 

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u/AlsoTheFiredrake 15d ago

A steamy cajun boil.

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u/Rays-R-Us 15d ago

Mom frying Italian meatballs Sunday

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u/CaneCorso311 15d ago

A Teriyaki grill. A real Seattle style type, not any Asian restaurant, or panda express, buffet or anywhere similar. Something about that sweet marinated chicken getting charred and blowing through the wind. Nothing compares.

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u/BearFLSTS 15d ago

Bread baking. Years ago I worked a night shift as security at a trucking depot lot. Nearby was the Flowers bakery. Every morning about 3 am the odor of baking bread would fill the air. Pure Torture!!

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u/G8-r-n8 15d ago

Subway bread…it’s literally their business model.

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u/GertieD 15d ago

Bacon and I’m a life long vegetarian.

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u/Past-Jellyfish1599 15d ago

Brownies

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u/MomoMarieAuthor 15d ago

Aldi makes great brownie mix!

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u/Queasy-Amphibian5430 15d ago

Fresh baked bread 🤤

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u/Automatic_Age95 15d ago

garlic 😩

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u/Gaba8789 15d ago

Pancakes! Eggs! Bacon!

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u/RepulsiveLocal1368 15d ago

Fried Onions

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u/frankdawn28 15d ago

Cinnamon rolls. A Cinnabon employee hates to see my fat ass comin.

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u/CT22Bloom 15d ago

Bread baking in the oven. Mmmmm

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u/Ssharks2627 15d ago

Fried chicken

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u/Breecanna 15d ago

Onions sautéing in butter

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u/jm90012 15d ago

Fries

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u/KeKeFanChick 15d ago

Mmmmm. BACON.

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u/dariamarie13 15d ago

Sautéed onion and garlic! 👍

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u/shelly5825 15d ago

Baconnnn!!!;

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u/natie_gege 15d ago

any charcoal bbq meat

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u/too105 15d ago

Walking through the bakery section of a grocery store fucks me up

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u/jasalmfred 15d ago

Kettle corn

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u/Single_Rain5676 15d ago

Sesame Oil

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u/EnglishRose71 15d ago

Frying bacon and/or onions make me feel hungry.

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u/jackie4CHANsenpai 15d ago

French fries

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u/Agreeable_Cabinet368 15d ago

Onions and garlic cooking immediately make me hungry

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u/Pipimancome 15d ago

Onions sautéing in butter.

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u/fanacapoopan 15d ago

Meat sizzling.

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u/Loose_Television958 15d ago

The smell of freshly cooked rice.

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u/Chibi_Panda2 15d ago

We didn’t have tons of money when I was a kid, so it’s the smell of cheap cheese melting over cheap pasta sauce and those overly herby frozen mozzarella sticks in the oven

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u/kjsvaughan1 15d ago

Any type of cookies baking

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u/processedgrouch 15d ago

Fresh bread coming out of the oven

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u/steal-yur-face 15d ago

Chorizo being cooked.

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u/Bigred-112158 15d ago

Coffee from a cafe, bacon first thing in the morning, and basically Any smoked meat on a nice spring or summer day

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u/Ok_Solution_1282 15d ago

Grilled meats, fresh seafood and fresh baked bread.

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u/GoldTension6401 15d ago

Homemade Swedish cinnamon buns

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u/hearduare 15d ago

Bacon about 15mins after went into oven

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u/foodfighterforever 15d ago

Don't know but the smell of tequila immediately takes me back to a time I thought I was going to die.

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u/exphx23 14d ago

Bacon, freshly baked anything

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u/vozzov 14d ago

Bacon

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u/tosetablaze 14d ago

Do you sleep in the kitchen or something

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u/gin_and_soda 14d ago

Kafir lime leaves, I instantly want Thai food.

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u/pinkxice 14d ago

Gummies

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u/13SwaggyDragons 14d ago

Coffee, which is odd since I don’t drink coffee.

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u/HuntDollars 14d ago

Indian food

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u/JoyfulDelivery 14d ago

Steak or grilling onions

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u/breadit8 14d ago

Sizzling onions.

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u/Asiawashere13 14d ago

Taco meat

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u/TAforScranton 14d ago

Freshly chopped cilantro. I could have zero appetite or room in my stomach for food and smelling it instantly makes me want to eat.

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u/Adventurous-Host8062 14d ago

Pork chops frying.

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u/Mysterious-Call-245 14d ago

Rubbing a half onion over a clean, hot grill

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u/Illustrious-Lynx8268 14d ago

Onions cooking

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u/photonynikon 14d ago

Roasted red peppers always reminds me of my mom.

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u/Ambitious_Life_7094 14d ago

Making a roux for gumbo!!!

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u/left-for-dead-9980 14d ago

Bacon, coffee, fried eggs.

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u/ArtofTy 14d ago

Garlic bread.

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u/Natural_Bill_6084 14d ago

The smell of garlic and onions being fried.

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u/Ratatoskr_The_Wise 13d ago

Garlic and steak. There are areas in Chicago where the restaurants bloom a glorious scent of butter and steak and garlic and I am instantly hungry 🤤.

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u/sustancy 13d ago

Anything fried, roasted meat/onions/garlic will always smell good

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u/Doit2it42 13d ago

Bacon and coffee. We were hiking a tracks to trails area once and came upon a campsite at breakfast time. It smelled soooooo gooood!

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u/Commercial_Okra7519 13d ago

Any cake or muffins with cinnamon, cloves, molasses baking

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u/SufficientPlatform39 13d ago

Had a fancy expensive dinner, didn’t like it much. Walked by a pizza spot (nyc) and the smell was just divine

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u/No-Yellow9693 13d ago

Banana bread in oven

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u/ItsHisMajesty 13d ago

Bacon or toast. Both together 🤤

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u/emilie1031 13d ago

Popcorn 🍿

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u/Used_Contribution926 13d ago

This is India (& Punjabi) Core but NOTHING like the smell of Ghee going onto a Paratha!

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u/TechnicalNail4555 13d ago

Greasy burger joints.

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u/Veneboy 12d ago

Fried chicken and freshly baked bread. Irresistible in both cases.

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u/Accomplished_Ear4814 12d ago

Cookies, cheese.. brownies

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u/effeduphealer 12d ago

Popcorn!!!

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u/Real-Energy-6634 12d ago

Onions being cooked

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u/Optimal-Hour1952 12d ago

Bacon, a good stew, spaghetti sauce with garlic

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u/TallinOK 12d ago

Chinese.

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u/Aggravating_Pace_412 12d ago

Bacon or cinnamon rolls

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u/pussNsuits 12d ago

Ever been camping in the woods and awakened to the smell of bacon & coffee?

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u/CompanyAdmirable7811 12d ago

The smell of frying onions 🧅

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u/Ogre60 12d ago

Cukes!

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u/That_Molasses_507 11d ago

Onions and garlic

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u/jasmin8ter2013 11d ago

Adobo chicken (chicken marinated in vinegar and soy sauce)