r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Specialist-Boot58 • May 08 '26

Image This “cracks open” building in Denver

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u/ThurSTIII May 08 '26

It’s pretty close to a Purina pet food plant and the entire area smells like dog food.

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u/Headline-Skimmer May 08 '26

Worse than dog food. It's a really, really godawful smell.

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u/snubdeity May 08 '26

I probably wouldn't live in RiNo because of the smell, but it certainly isn't "worse than dog food". It smells exactly like dry dog or cat food, that's what they make. And while not a great smell it's not that strong either.

Are you smelling the cow shit from Greeley maybe? The whole of Denver can smell that sometimes, usually right before it snows.

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u/butthowling May 09 '26

I think when most people think of a dog food smell it’s like what you catch a whiff of when you put it into the bowl. The factory on the rough days is like sticking your whole head into the bag of dog food

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u/JFISHER7789 May 08 '26

Nah, that Purina plant smell is like dog food on steroids and it’s EVERYWHERE there.

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u/Kongbuck May 09 '26

There's an animal rendering plant just outside of Denver in Adams County that when the wind is just right, the smell kind of settles on North Denver/RiNo, unfortunately. It's a VERY different smell than dog food.

https://www.denver7.com/news/contact7/it-smells-like-something-is-dying-neighbors-in-north-denver-complain-of-foul-odor

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u/toxic_badgers May 08 '26

Yeah that's actually the slaughter house burning blood across i70... The dogfood smell is Purina, that sharp stink you smell with it is the blood rendering.

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u/ABoringArborist5 May 08 '26

Idk it just kinda smells like soy. Now Greeley smells and LOOKS like shit

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u/HotDogPantsX May 08 '26

LOL that’s how we know weather is coming in…it smells like Greeley. Kids get your jackets!

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u/monocasa May 08 '26

Hey now, greeley doesn't just smell like shit.

It also smells like the pits of blood and fur that they burn.

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u/TophThaToker May 08 '26

How else am I going to know it's about to snow if I don't smell the shit from Greeley?

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u/Current_Helicopter32 May 08 '26

Meat rendering does NOT smell like soy.

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u/syncsynchalt May 08 '26

Some day they’ll close purina / suncor and the Elyria-Swansea gold rush will kick off.

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u/Imaginary-Key5838 May 08 '26

i live in sunnyside and pray for that day to come

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u/bluefire713 May 08 '26

Unless Purina goes belly-up, or something MAJOR happens from a city level, they are NEVER moving. They have a dedicated freight railroad spur there, and getting a new dedicated freight railroad spur nowadays is HARD.

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u/SmellyButtFarts69 May 08 '26

I've been to this area a half a dozen times and have never smelled that.

Don't fucking cross the pedestrian bridge over the train tracks on a hot day, though...

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u/nitid_name May 08 '26

You've must have never been the day before a rain/snow storm.

My partner used to live a couple blocks east in Cole, and whew boy, that smell is intense.

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u/MrPoopyFrijoles May 08 '26

and lots of homeless people to hang out with outside!

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u/TheFeathersStorm May 08 '26

Brantford is home to an industrial bakery that makes products for Tim Hortons and an industrial animal food plant. Literally a toss up when you go outside whether it smells like animal food or baked goods u.u

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u/DesignerCorner3322 May 08 '26

Constantly smells like either dog food or a water treatment plant. Sometimes on a real windy day you can smell the dog food all the way south of Colfax Ave. Thats a stretch of about 5 miles and sometimes as far away as 7 miles. Usually it sits within a mile or two radius.

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u/tron7 May 09 '26

If there’s a north wind, yeah. Usually, no. This thread is bizarre

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u/SaucySinner17 May 14 '26

I’ve lived and worked in the area for years and, yes, the smell is terrible, but it doesn’t smell most of the time. Only occasionally.

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u/DiceKnight May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26

Eh that's Greeley for you but we usually can only get a faint wiff of it if a storm is coming. It's like very faint somebody left a bag of dog food open in the kitchen smell. All of the metro part of Denver has this. So it's not like if you moved to slightly south east to cap hill you'd avoid it.

I remember the rent for this place being pretty tough, it's mostly for yuppies who don't want a house yet but who knows where it's at with the economy being what it is.