before i had moved to gilroy, I had only driven through it, like most people i talk to. You may know that this town is world renowned for REEKING of garlic.
for the first month i lived here, my stomach was producing too much acid because all i could smell was garlic and my body thought it was about to eat some pesto linguine all the time.
has anyone had similar experiences? Or better yet, DIFFERENT experiences?
for the first month i lived here, my stomach was producing too much acid because all i could smell was garlic and my body thought it was about to eat some pesto linguine all the time.
has anyone had similar experiences? Or better yet, DIFFERENT experiences?
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Re: Taste that smell
Sat, January 24, 2004 - 8:10 PMNo, Ted, because you're the only one who comes to this stinkin' tribe!! Everyone else in Gilroy is standing in line at Blockbuster video right now, seeing if they can get the last copy of Gigli.
Anyway, I have been walking around today, and I notice that there are other smells in the air besides garlic. Cowshit is one of those smells. La la la, la la la la.... -
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Re: Taste that smell
Sun, January 25, 2004 - 11:44 AM
"Smell that money" is one of the treasured verbal heirlooms handed down in my family on long road trips across the midwest. I figured I could escape it out here, thinking that I wouldn't find anything more domestic than alpaca farms in CA, but, oh well... -
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Re: Taste that smell
Tue, February 3, 2004 - 11:43 AMeven in late september the garlic looms!!
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Re: Taste that smell
Tue, August 3, 2004 - 11:54 PMTed,
I was born and raised in San Francisco, ended up in Santa Clara until left home in 1967. At the end of almost every vacation, we would drive through Gilroy on the way back to Santa Clara.
The smell of Gilroy has been burned into my memory because of those trips. I actually spent part of my last vacation driving a circular route that meant going back through Gilroy for the first time in almost 30 years.
As I opened the windows and headed down into Gilroy, the smell of garlic filled the car. Not a bad way to bring back a few memories.
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Re: Taste that smell
Wed, August 4, 2004 - 10:32 AMThe egg farm near 101 @ Masten has (or at least had back in the 80s) a much more, er, potent odor.
But in a brief moment of Mustang pride, I have to say, that the mushroom compost smell of Morgan Hill is by far the strongest and least palatable. -
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Re: Taste that smell
Sun, July 24, 2005 - 2:44 AMyes, I remember that damn egg farm...YUCK
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Re: Taste that smell
Tue, July 26, 2005 - 11:25 AMOh yes, the mushroom farm!! Ugh. I was in the car with my girlfriend one night and we were driving through San Martin/ Morgan Hill. Well, I caught a whiff of that odor and thought that she had farted-- apparently she thought the same thing about me!! I was about to dump her ass and kick her out of the car for being able to produce a smell like that.... Well, our relationship survived...
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