Radishes should not smell like shit.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

And by shit, I mean actual fecal material.

No kidding, I made this big fancy salad today and like to make radish rosettes to put on top of it, and I always clean the living hell out of vegies of any sort when I bring it home. The reason is that I am convinced that every time you eat a raw vegie, you are basically taking your life in your hands since we seem to be unable to produce produce that is not contaminated with shit and every other monday there is a recall or an epidemic of food poisoning.

So I open these thing up into a colander and start washing them and I'm like "What IS that SMELL?!?!?!?" It was my radishes!

I am not kidding you they smelled exactly like a portable construction site crapper, complete with the sickeningly sweet chemical smell of cheap perfumed air "freshener".

Radishes.



Needless to say, we didn't have any dainty little carved roses on our freaking salad.

I am just appalled. Food should be on the complete polar opposite end of the spectrum from feces and never the twain shall meet. I am sick of bringing home food I am afraid to eat.

[TheMike]

I would think (not in any way a professional opinion) that there may have been a worm (dead) in one of the radishes thus causing said smell (rot would also account for "sickeningly sweet smell).

[Dave1982]

Well, since you brought it up, RK.....

My freshman year in college just about the only option for hot food late at night was this horrible on-campus restaurant, unless you wanted to shell out for delivery.

One day I got a couple slices of pizza from them and brought them back to my room. I took a bite and it literally tasted like shit smells. It was horrid. I spat it out, threw the rest away and grabbed my listerine to rinse out my mouth.

So what does one of my brain-dead roommates do? Despite being told exactly why I threw the pizza out, he took it BACK OUT OF THE TRASH and had a few bites. Then he realized I was right and threw the rest out.

But yeah, radishes shouldn't smell like that.

"AAAAHH!!!! It's a RADISH FAILURE!!!!"

[BookstoreEscapee]

You know, I saw radishes in the grocery store the other day and thought "I should get some radishes next time"...

Now I don't want them anymore

[telecom_goddess]

You know, I saw radishes in the grocery store the other day and thought "I should get some radishes next time"...

Now I don't want them anymore

I never wanted radishes in the first place

[AdminAssistant]

I've always thought radishes smelt and tasted odd, but they shouldn't taste like literal crap.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

They should smell earthy and taste the same, with a crisp, hot bite.

I mentioned it to one of my friends at supper and he wondered if they were not growing in straight-up manure.

Yuk.

I wonder if they reeked and the supplier didn't try to mask the smell with some chemical.

[KiaKat]

I had strawberries once from a certain Very Large Organic Store that smelled like shit. My sister wouldn't let us use them, even though running them under hot water seemed to take care of it.

She went out and bought new strawberries.

[dalesys]

My #1 sister once found an apricot tree whose fruit smelled like dog dooey... and had to inflict samples on every family member in range.

[TelephoneAngel]

I just bought a packet of radishes and now I'm frightened to open the packet.

[telecom_goddess]

I just bought a packet of radishes and now I'm frightened to open the packet.

Damn RK look what you did

[RecoveringKinkoid]

If it's any comfort, this is a first for me.

[XCashier]

I never wanted radishes in the first place

Heh, me neither!

I hate it when produce isn't right. Like those beautiful peaches that turn out to be rock hard and tasting like peach-scented wood. Or berries with no flavor at all. This stuff is expensive, it ought to taste right!

[AccountingDrone]

If you have a corner, why not grow your own? They have a fairly short growth cycle ...http://www.gardenguides.com/70071-gr...s-indoors.html

[lupo pazzesco]

Kind of makes me glad I never really liked radishes. Though I once bought a watermelon, cut it open waiting for that juicy red fruit...and it was brown.