Comment on Ant smell
marcos@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoTBF, there are lots of things with a smell similar to cockroaches. Some of them wouldn’t be a red flag to be found at a restaurant. Also, smells are very localized, and I doubt your friend walks through the kitchen.
But yeah, I’ve gone away from restaurants because they smelled like cockroaches.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Smells are airborne. They move with the air.
You can walk into a house and tell they’re cooking dinner, just by smells that have traveled 50 feet from the kitchen to the front door.
marcos@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Dispersion varies widely due to the kind of smell, intensity, and air circulation.
Most smells do not travel 50 feet.
hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
I have to counter that in my experience most, if not all smells travel 15m. When the wind is right that increases massively.