COMPLAINTS ROLL IN OVER ‘OBNOXIOUS’ SOUP SMELL

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

http://www.itemlive.com/news/complaints-roll-in-over-obnoxious-soup-smell/

LYNN — If you’ve rolled down your car windows to take in the fresh, spring air while cruising down the Lynnway these past few warm days, you’ve likely been greeted with a strong whiff of onions.

City Councilor Richard Colucci said the smell is coming from Kettle Cuisine Inc., located at 330 Lynnway. The wholesale soup manufacturer cooks all natural soups from scratch for restaurants, food service operators, and grocery stores, according to the company’s website. Founded in 1986, the factory moved to Lynn less than five years ago.

While the odor might be slightly bothersome to passersby in traffic, it has become a real nuisance for neighbors and abutters, said Colucci, who keeps logs of the complaints he receives.

“I get three to four calls a week,” he said. “They shouldn’t have to smell it. In the beginning, it didn’t smell at all. I don’t know if they’re not cleaning the chimney or something. Before, it didn’t stink at all. Then, in the summer a little. Now I’m starting to smell it at my own house on Ocean Street.”

Susan Blum, who is undergoing radiation therapy, called the smell dreadful.

“Radiation treatment makes you nauseous and the smell on top of it is horrible,” said Blum, a Kenwood Terrace resident who kept her windows closed all last spring while she was receiving treatment.

“Last night we were sitting (at home) at 8 p.m. with the windows open and I said to my husband ‘it still stinks,’” she said.

Lori Thompson, a neighbor who lives about two miles from the site, said she believes the smell is getting stronger with time.

“Yesterday was a beautiful day, warm with a nice breeze,” said Thompson. “I opened my windows to let the house air out after the long winter and had to immediately close them. I had to turn on the air conditioning instead of enjoying the fresh air because the onion smell was overwhelming, as it was this morning.”

Colucci is submitting the complaints to Clint Muche, deputy building commissioner in the city’s Inspectional Services Department.

“In essence, one can almost expect that there will be calls whenever the wind is from a southerly or southwesterly direction blowing across the roof to the downtown area,” said Muche. “Unfortunately, that’s the predominant wind direction throughout the spring.”

As an onion detracter I can definitely sympathize.

[geronl]

So let us just shut down every business, because that's where this goes.

[Smokin Joe]

“Last night we were sitting (at home) at 8 p.m. with the windows open and I said to my husband ‘it still stinks,’” she said.

Maybe the windows being open had something to do with it.

I suppose they could move the plant--out of state, like the chap who makes Sriracha sauce said he'd do. But then they would lose the jobs and tax base and income tax and ...and...and...

[ABX]

They should be glad they don't live near a paper mill.

[Wingnut]

[Frank Cannon]

330 Lynnway is an industrial/warehouse are. If this soup place is your neighbor, you are a loser and should shut up and move to where normal people live.

[240B]

They should be glad they don't live near a paper mill.

@AbaraXas
I grew up in a paper mill town. My father worked there. The smell was everywhere, all the time. Whenever we had relatives come to visit, they would say, Peeyew! What is that smell!

My father always had the same answer. He would say, That smell is the smell of money.

[EC]

Think paper mills are bad, try a sugar refinery.

[Frank Cannon]

Think paper mills are bad, try a sugar refinery.

Think sugar refineries are bad, try a sewage treatment plant.

[Frank Cannon]

Think sugar refineries are bad, try a sewage treatment plant.

Think sewage treatment plants are bad, try a dumpster behind a Chinese restaurant on a hot summer day.

[Frank Cannon]

Think sewage treatment plants are bad, try a dumpster behind a Chinese restaurant on a hot summer day.

Think dumpsters behind a Chinese restaurant on a hot summer day are bad, try sitting down wind of Hitlary Clinton.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Think paper mills are bad, try a sugar refinery.

Try a hog farm. Worst smell ever.

[Smokin Joe]

Try a hog farm. Worst smell ever.

Hog farms and rendering plants get my vote for being most odoriferous.

[catfish1957]

Hog farms and rendering plants get my vote for being most odoriferous.

11111
Fish rendering (Pogey) typically near the coast is the worst by far. 

Try Cameron, Louisiana back in the 1970's with a south wind.  You pray for a wind direction change.

[Gefn]

Living near Fresh Kills, Staten Island is pretty bad too.

[GtHawk]

Hog farms and rendering plants get my vote for being most odoriferous.

City of Vernon,CA. has the Farmer John Slaughter house and the Baker Commodities livestock rendering plant all in a neat little five square mile package. The only city that actually made me want to puke, and that's counting the multiple cities that I did work at their sewage treatment plants.

[Cripplecreek]

When I was a young kid we lived near Munith Michigan where they grew spearmint. After squeezing the extract out they would dump the mash back on the fields.

It had kind of a sweet rotting smell.

[Wingnut]

I have shoveled a lot of shit in my time. Horse, Cow, Pig, Chicken, Dog, Cat, and human to name a few.  Dealt with rotten fish. Dead and live skunks. Been over come by sewer gas. Kissed by a girl who just blew chunks.....  But the worstest smell (as someone previously mentioned) is working in at or near a rendering plant.

[r9etb]

So let us just shut down every business, because that's where this goes.

Seriously? 

This company is being a nuisance.  They don't get to just stink up the neighborhood because they're a business.

And it sounds like the problem is recent -- probably equipment-related.

[Restored]

Worst I have experienced

Next to a cabbage warehouse
Fields at an Ag college where they spray with liquid cow manure
Sewage treatment plant at a trucker motel

[Cripplecreek]

Stank Soda

[Frank Cannon]

Living near Fresh Kills, Staten Island is pretty bad too.

Your right. Staten Island does stink, but so does most of the state.

[Idaho_Cowboy]

Think paper mills are bad, try a sugar refinery.

Smelled that a time or two. Burnt peanut butter smell. Yum.... Okay, not.... Potato plants can be stinky too.

[Smokin Joe]

Seriously? 

This company is being a nuisance.  They don't get to just stink up the neighborhood because they're a business.

And it sounds like the problem is recent -- probably equipment-related.

Likely it has to do more with wind direction and the product they are producing at the moment. I'd just about bet the soup maker has been there longer than the complainants.

Many previously industrial areas are being remodeled into trendy apartments/condos and then the new residents complain about the industry that was already there, or the noise the shooting range makes, or whatever.

[r9etb]

I'd just about bet the soup maker has been there longer than the complainants.

Many previously industrial areas are being remodeled into trendy apartments/condos and then the new residents complain about the industry that was already there, or the noise the shooting range makes, or whatever.

Fair enough.  Still, based on the story it does sound like a recent problem.