Having a coffee and there is a fresh fish shop opposite.
Can’t stand the smell of fish.
Anyone else find the smell offensive?
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It’s on a par with boiled cabbage.
I loved the smell of fried onions … but not so nice if they linger the day after.
Of course, the vilest smell has to be blocked drains.
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Yes it’s horrible, can’t stand the smell from fish shops and butcher shops, but coffee is one of the loveliest smells.
It smells better than it tastes, I inhale empty coffee every bags 
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I think so too 
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Yes Bretrick, Coffee does stink.
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Maybe it is a British thing - we love them.
Hi Morti
We normally agree on most things.
I will have to disagree about the smell from blocked drains being the worst however.
I could start a thread about exhumations I have done or multiple bodies in a confined area I have dealt with, however I don’t think it would go down well.
There is a way of dealing with horrible smells and sights.
Stay with them until you have finished what you have to do, your brain blanks the smell after a while, going out for a breath of fresh air is the worst thing you can do, going back in just starts the whole horrible experience off again.
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H&S should close these smelly places down.
Fresh fish doesn’t stink, but “past it’s sell by date” fish does. Unfortunately, dead fish is “past it’s sell by date” by the end of day 2, 3 max. Med countries understand this, and the markets aim to sell all on day 1.
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My take on it is fresh fish stores should not be located in enclosed shopping centres.
The smell permeates through a portion of the centre.
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I wouldn’t touch mackerel from a supermarket with a barge pole, the red eyes say it all.
Much better caught from the beach, split and cooked on a portable barbecue with a squeeze of fresh lemon, a pinch of black pepper and some wild fennel if there’s any knocking around! 
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… way to go. 
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Well … I’ve never had the misfortune to be around a whiffy exhumation. I wouldn’t even like to imagine it.
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Smell of fish, by which I mean the smell of slightly past its best fish (and/or fish offal) I quite like it. But then both my grandfathers were trawlermen and lived quite close to the fish processing places under the railway arches in Aberdeen. I was often walked round the fish market there as well - before the oil industry took over. So I quite like the smell.
But blocked drains are gross. I’ve a septic tank and a separate grease runaway (from the kitchen sink) and jet washing those out is not the best job in the world.
I think you can get used to most smells, though. As a student I got a summer job working on the bins - back in the day of metal bins full of all the weeks rubbish (no recycling). The trip up to the huge land fil two or three times a day meant you got used to the smell. The things you’d find in people’s rubbish.
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I know dozens of fish markets in Lisbon and they are everywhere in towns out on the coast. They never smell like some shops in the UK and Oz, allegedly.
Everything, countertop, floors & walls gets a thorough wash down at the end of the day. By contrast, the smelliest shops/stall here in London cover it at night, throw crushed ice over it next day. Criminal.
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Bretrick,
quote “Having a coffee and there is a fresh fish shop opposite.
Can’t stand the smell of fish” unquote
that is nothing , when I fart I can clear a room in seconds. 
Isn’t there an expression about no point keeping a dog and farting yourself. Have you been in a closed room with my dog? Not for long.
I don’t have a dog so I have to do it myself … and worse, can’t blame the dog.