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Steak-Scented Billboard Entices Drivers

Posted by samzenpus on from the steak-and-diesel dept.

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."

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  1. Re:BBQ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why are most Americans fat, again?

  2. Re:At first I wondered if it was real... by InvisibleSoul · · Score: 1, Troll

    That was an A1 pun.

  3. Re:At first I wondered if it was real... by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't get why yours is marked funny and mine is marked Troll. I guess I should simmer down.

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    "I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)

  4. *WOOSH* by justinlee37 · · Score: 0, Troll

    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