Name that Smell

As I have mentioned, I work at the lunch hour at the CFI (CFI: NZ hahaha). The tea room is just down from my office and I realized that lunchrooms always smell the same. At first, I thought this was the smell of cheap bologna and cheese on white bread. But I am fairly certain that these adult professionals aren't eating the same crap that middle schoolers eat. So what is it that smells like that? Is it just the long tables? Cheap linoleum? Do microwaves and cooking appliances give off some secret odor previously unimagined? Perhaps it's just the smell of a bunch of food at once. I think that I enjoyed thinking of it like bologna and cheese. It just seems so wholesome and innate to children. Ah well, that theory's busted.

Also, if you are a loyal reader, you will recall that I bought Brie and French bread on Saturday. Well, Brie starts to smell like feet after a bit. I am not sure that this is a sign that it's gone bad. Some really expensive cheese smells like feet. Brie is good cheese, but I still didn't want to chance it. I used the last of my Brie to bake onto some French bread creating a variation on garlic bread. An unplanned bonus? Now my flat smells like warm feet. Thank God for candles and incense or I would be frightening off the neighbors.

The whole smell idea got me wondering what my flat smells like normally. Everybody's house has a smell. I really wonder what mine is. I think they should invent a machine that would tell you. I'd totally buy it. C'mon, you know you would too.