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Steak-Scented Billboard Entices Drivers
In addition to car exhaust and road grime, travelers along Highway 150 in North Carolina can now enjoy the smell of a barbecue thanks to a new billboard. The work of ScentAir, which provides custom scents for businesses, the advertisement for a local grocer emits the smell of charcoal and black pepper over the highway. "Marketing director Murray Dameron said the beef scent was emitted by a high-powered fan at the bottom of the billboard that blows air over cartridges loaded with BBQ fragrance oil. 'It smells like grilled meat with a nice pepper rub on it,' he explained."
Screw that! I want BACON!!!
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...with the MMJ dispensaries.
Screw that! I want BACON!!!
For that, all you need is to go into a gas station and use the restroom. Push button, receive bacon.
do not want, sue sue sue
Then I realized that they had not, in fact, made a misteak.
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I wonder what the billboards for the local strip clubs will smell like.
And what about people who get sick at the smell or sight of meat? Not all of us get all wet at the thought of eating a giant piece of cow. How is this different than wearing thick cologne or perfume, or slathering on aftershave to the point that the hallway still reeks of it hours after your passage? You know what, I'd rather smell burnt gas and diesel than half the things the general public slathers all over their body in the name of attracting the opposite sex. People who wear Axe and Old Spice, I'm looking at you.
And now in addition to my daily routine of overly-scented people, they're adding overly-scented advertising? :( As if flashing, gyrating signs, sometimes moving and smoking, signs that are visible for miles wasn't enough. What next, shooting french fries at passing motorists?
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Hmmm...I wonder if something like this requires an environmental impact report. Could those scents be toxic?
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It actually smells just like chicken.
We want billboards that smell like BBQ'd vegans!
iSmell but the product failed because it stank (that, and there was no 3rd party software written to support it)
Another freaking marketing "too.l" Ugh. I wonder what Viagra smells like? You know it's coming...
ScentAir, The Silent Killer
by Mavra Chang, Reuters, New York
June 9, 2023
The advertising world took another hit as the 1000th case of brain cancer from the ScentAir advertising campaign was announced today...
Why isn't this tagged smellovision?
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As a vegetarian, I find this billboard scent deeply offensive.
NPR covered this a week go. Granted, this is idle, but come on...
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Because you don't smell with your visual senses. Try teleolfactory, maybe?
So, would a billboard for a strip club smell like shame?
It's good to know that science has our best interests at heart. Who needs cancer cures or alternative energy, when there's steak with which for us to fill our fattened gullets?
Mmm... those smells are helping me relax, putting me in a happy place. Now gimme my damn steak.
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TO OP: I think you should sue, who ever you eat from; because of the noxious gases that escape your orrifices.
The methane & sulfur Dioxide you release; are tantamount to killing the planet and offending others.
As we all know, perceived taste is ~90% olfactory. If I sit under this billboard to eat a hamburger, will I be a pirate?
Why isn't the EPA all over this? It could be contribution to global warming, for crying out loud!
The target demographic is people who don't use air conditioning and/or drive down the highway with their windows down?
Cute idea. Wonder if anyone will actually manage to "smell" it. I guess the optional brick throwing machine that broke car windows as they pass was just too tricky.
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the olfactive spam!
Probably on the 10th or so time Animal Control gets called about the packs of stray dogs surrounding and defending the billboard...
I do hope they have some kind of remote kill switch for if there is a traffic jam... I understand getting a whiff of it, but being stuck breathing that in for a hour or two could make a person sick.
For a pr0n store - What about a billboard scented with ... ahem, female smells?
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Uh, oh! Please don't give these guys any ideas! They'll have the entire stretch of I-40 from Albuquerque to Oklahoma City smelling like one big steak!
At a meatetarian, I find your righteous indignation deeply amusing.
The steak is a lie!
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So long as Bandini Fertilizer doesn't do a Bandini Mountain billboard with scents to go with I'm okay with it.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bandini%20Mountain
Great.
A device designed to distract, pollute, and encourage obesity.
Billboards with food scent... Smelling of Steak! That should get PETA in an uproar.. unless PETA stands for Preparation and Eating of Tasty Animals :)
To me this is pure un-adulterated outright pollution. The Adv company is deliberately releasing odors into the atmosphere. And I bet they do no have an EPA license to do so.
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I guess I won't be traveling through North Carolina then, because my wife is vegetarian and the smell of some meat is now disturbing to her. I'm told it's pretty universal for people who have not eaten meat in a long time to feel nauseous at the smell of strong meats like bacon or barbecue.
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I just shit my pants a little
Yup, vegetarian here and I agree 100%
Speaking as a vegetarian for 2/3 of my life I have to say... yech! I dislike the smell of burnt animal flesh immensely! I don't have to stay inside when my neighbors are barbecuing, but my toleration levels are stretched come 4th of July.
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It's called a craving, it only feels bad because your body chemistry is messed up from eating too much processed soy products. Also in your head, like the difference between being tickled and .... aroused.
Can we get one of these mounted here in Norfolk, Va near the PETA office?
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Drivers don't need yet another unnecessary distraction.
I am NOT looking forward to the stinkboards advertising the Assgasms series.
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10/10, epic troll. Seriously dude, fuck the cologne, fuck the deodorant, all you need is the natural scent of an alpha male.
We cover up our body's natural sweat and pheromones (which has been chosen by evolution to attract the opposite sex) with cheap, disgusting, overpowering, unnatural scents. It makes no sense. Furthermore, some of those colognes, like Realm, advertise having "natural pheromones." Isn't that ironic? Here's an idea, genius, skip the $50 cologne "pheromones" and use the pheromones in your sweat that you already have.
/end rant
Thinking of such things, I am reminded of walking past the Necco Wafer factory in Cambridge on a winter day when they are making the mint wafers...
In other news, a large population of very confused looking bears has congregated at the base of the billboard. No damage has been caused to the billboard... yet.
Reminds me of the Leave It to Beaver episode "In the Soup"--Jerry Mathers falls into the billboard bowl of "steaming soup." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0630257/plotsummary
Wheres the beef?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where%27s_the_beef%3F
Growing up in the 80's in Rochester, NY, a local radio station - 98PXY - claimed they were testing a new technology that would allow them to send smells over the air to your radio's. At the given time during their morning show, they claimed they were sending a smell -- BACON -- and people were calling in swearing that they could smell it coming from their boomboxes (it was the 80's). ~sigh~ People are soooooooo gullible.
Charcoal and Black Pepper aren't actually meat smells. Most of what you smell when you salivate about BBQ isn't meat. It is the aromatics. And most of the veggies I know still LOVE the smell of BBQ smoke as long as it's relatively clean smoke (not seared fat, etc). Especially pagan veggies since it ALSO has the aroma of a good incense charcoal.
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Am I the only one here that thinks this is a bit invasive? I mean sure, I don't like billboards anyway - I think they are a distraction. Of course, you can choose not to look at them (for the most part). It would be, IMHO, a bit like a billboard that shouted "HEY! LOOK AT ME!" at high volumes to everyone. Will advertisers not stop until they've saturated all 6 senses without our consent?
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Billboard Ad for vegetarians: We don't stink!
All these people who talk about you can't be allergic to certain scents. I am here to tell you that I am. I have a physical reaction, and have been tested by several different doctors for allergies and yes I have them. I have been tested by ENT (auto-laryngologists) and a dermatologist. Some things when they land on my skin break me out, and certain dyes and colors do the same thing from products like laundry soap, and body washes. Also certain things I smell make my eyes water and nose run and create drainage for me.
I can also tell you that those air clears that are electric that create ozone to clean the air. They give me one serious headache. I can smell them the second they are turned on, and a few moments after they are turned off I know it. It only takes about 5-10 minutes of smelling them before I start to get a headache, and if it continues I end up with a migrane. So it wouldn't suprise me if people would be allergic to charcoal or pepper smell that this billboard is putting out. Seems like something that shouldn't be allowed to be forced on to the general public. You can do whatever you want until it begins to be a problem for others. I think I once heard it put as "your right to swing your fists/hands, ends at my nose" or something to that effect. Seems the same should apply here.
Nothing new here. For years, the smells along the NJ Turnpike have been subliminally advertising BP.
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