Smell of maple syrup.

...wafts through streets of New York!

[Syzygy]

NEW YORK (AP) -- Was it the sweet smell of success? For the second time in two months, a mysterious maple syrup aroma wafted over Manhattan on Thursday, and city officials still don't know what caused it.

Source: The New York Times [nytimes.com].

Brilliant! Any New Yorkers out there who can confirm the story - is this for real?

Syzygy

[jimbeetle]

Well, the Times and a lot of folks think it's real. Not really sure what the big deal is. Afterall, this is a City where you can get a different sniff with each street corner you turn.

I personally don't know anybody who's smelled the sweet odor. As for me on Thursday night, I was appreciating the aroma of hunks of meat drifting over from the Palm and Palm Too restaurants. Maybe that's why I went out to Peter Luger's in Brooklyn for a steak on Saturday. Seems like I get hungry for beef when the wind blows the right way.

[Rugles]

Really, are they sure is not just the normal pervasive odor of urine.

[Rugles]

Oh, by the way.... Love the Palm, almost as good as Mortons.

[Stefan]

Don't tell anyone where you heard this, but it's actually part of the Canadian Conspiracy. It really is maple syrup that they're smelling (for reasons best left undisclosed). Next will come the sweet scent of beer and back-bacon drifting through NYC, and then...

[Rugles]

then... the streets turn to ice and we play hockey!

Excellent, I will bring a Scarborough suitcase!

[ganderla]

I think lots of New Yorkers are just coming down with
MSUD, which is Maple syrup urine disease.

[meadjohnson.com ]

[Rugles]

Well there you go, good research ganderla. You can phone the local health officials with the news.

[jimbeetle]

Ahhh, now that might explain the sweet smell in the subway.

[pmac]

>>>>Peter Luger's in Brooklyn for a steak

Best steak I have ever eaten. That place is worth the trip to NYC just by itself.

[rfontaine]

Ha. I live in the country (northern NH, which is relatively pristine) and whenever I approach a good sized city such as Boston or New York I can smell it at least a few miles out - a light aroma of urine in the air. The natives cannot smell it because they have gotten used to it.

Must come from 100,000 people taking leaks in corners and alleyways every day.

[jimbeetle]

>>Best steak

One of the guys at lunch Saturday is an old son of a butcher. Watching his eyes as he took his first bite of a Luger's steak and you could see he thought it was amazing.

And it is worth a trip to NYC. Here I am, within a block or two of five steakhouses including two Palms and a Smith & Wollensky's, and I still make the trek to Brooklyn for a hunk of beef.

[bobothecat]

Not trying to drop names, but a whiff of Scotto's Bakery on 13th Avenue this time of the year is pure heaven.

[jimbeetle]

Scotto's? Do you mean the one that was down on thirty something street when I was a kid? Yeah, if folks in Manhattan got a whiff of that coming across the East River they'd run across to find where it came from.

[bobothecat]

This one:

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13th Avenue, Brooklyn

I miss going there every day with my grandmother for fresh morning bread, and evening pastries when visiting for the holidays ... this was 30 years ago. :)

I feel old...

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