If they made a scented candle that smelled like your home town, chances are it would smell like poop. Like seriously, that was our most popular answer from today.

TEXT QUESTION OF THE DAY:
If they made a scented candle that smelled like your hometown … what would it smell like (what’s your hometown)?

  • The most accurate Grand Rapids Candle would be;
  • A lovely scented burning candle of fresh brewed beer, with small pockets of pee distributed across the candle that burn off randomly, to give you the essence of a strong urine presence. Just as if you were walking in downtown Grand Rapids.
  • Lake water, gentle hint of cow poop, and stale beer and a lot of regret Madison
  • If my home town (a small rural community in Australia) had a candle scent it would be Wheat, Sheep’s wool, and Despair.
  • Grew up on K I Sawyer AFB in the UP. They went around spraying bug spray during the summer. We would see them coming and run inside so we wouldn’t be caught out in the smoke. Gosh, that smell was awful But, going to grandmas, and now where I live in Muskegon, we would always know we were close when we could smell the good ole Paper Mill!! So yeah, pick your Poison!!
  • I grew in Wyoming, Mi. I would have to say cabbage. Only because my mother was always on some kind of cabbage diet and you could smell it the minute your turned the corner to go down our street. You could also smell it later after she ate it (if you know what I mean)
  • It would smell like fresh-baked donuts and cookies. I grew up in Lodi, WI and Weber’s was a 4th generation-run family bakery on Main Street. They used to do tours for the elementary school kids. If I was lucky as a child, I’d have change to buy a snoopy cookie or maybe even a donut on the way home. They went out of business a few years ago now, but I’ll always associate the smell of donuts with my hometown.
  • I live in Ravenna, surrounded by either corn fields or pickle fields. It currently smells like fresh manure in my house. Although, I grew up in Coopersville so growing up it was the dump and fresh manure
  • Golden rod in Grant. Every time I smell it I remember a lot of great times there.
  • At this time of the year burning leaves and chocolate (Nestle factory in Burlington), if the wind is right.
  • Depends on the season. Cow manure, fresh cut hay, or whatever the smell of “freezing cold” is. (Pickford - in the U.P.)
  • Sugar beet manufacturing and a mink farm. I cant compare the smell or which was worse
  • I would rather it smelled like the State Fair.
  • Cheese. No joke! Small Wisconsin farm town with a giant cheese factory in it that processes powdered cheese (for Cheetos, Mac and cheese boxes, etc...).
  • Tulips, in the spring and freezing cold in the winter. Holland Mi
  • Whiskey, leather, fresh cut hay, and a hint of horse manure. Courtesy of Nunica, MI.
  • Lake Michigan (and dead fish ) Southeastern WI
  • Mine would be tulips and wooden shoes (I grew up in Holland) My husband said his would be corn and cow . He grew up in the tiny town of Jasper MI.
  • That’s easy... Chocolate chip cookies... (Archway cookie factory was just outside of town, so...)
  • Fruity Pebbles. I’m from Battle Creek.
  • Taco Bell and Cheers. I use to live by both .
  • In the good ole days I'd say the smell of cars being made and Flint coneys
  • Paper Mill. Wisconsin Rapids Wisconsin
  • Cheese!! Pinconning, MI (Cheese capital of Michigan)
  • Marijuana in Lowell because more than one shop will be in town.
  • Car part store..pizza.. because we have plenty of those to choose from in our town of Hastings
  • Cow Pooh, and sauerkraut/pickles .Bridgeport,MI
  • Deep fried fish on Fridays from our restaurant in Belleville, Wisconsin.
  • Cowshit, corn, and Natty ice beer. I’m from Elkton (thumb area of Michigan by Bad Axe)
  • Teen pregnancy, butchered geese with a hint of backwoods hick. Watertown, WI.
  • Meth Or maybe stupid free fair food, vinegar and grease would be its name.
  • A toss between the Grand River and the Prisons in Ionia Mi
  • Fruity pebbles (Battle Creek)
  • Cow Manure, hay,, corn, apples, car oil, bon fires,, beer and smokes!
  • Horses,hay and wheat fields. Rockford
  • Cow and chicken manure- Hudsonville (FarmVille)
  • Rain and turf fires. Dublin Ireland
  • Camp fire smell in a distance, Lowell, MI.
  • Sagebrush, smoke, potatoes, and cow ...Filer, Idaho
  • Fish foam and seaweed-Madison
  • Keebler baked goods. Wyoming.
  • Donuts (Cops and donuts) Clare, MI
  • Chives and onions - Hudsonville
  • Whiskey, cow and pig poop with a hint of corn. Three Oaks, Mi
  • Apples (Sparta) ... or Cow poo
  • Sugar Beets or Fast Food driving down Euclid...Bay City.
  • Pickles. Holland
  • Lumber & Clover.
  • Tress, fresh air Stanton
  • Fermi II (Windsor, Ontario)
  • cherries ( Traverse City MI )
  • Hmmmm. Probably like a paper mill for where I was actually raised (Gladstone, MI) or smog and whatever gun violence smells like for where I was actually born (Chicago, IL)
  • Beer! Go Milwaukee!!!!
  • Manure scented, Hopkins/Dorr
  • If I had a candle it would smell like fruit loops bc I grew up in battle creek. It legit smelled of cereal
  • Cow s**t- Wayland
  • An aromatic bouquet of kielbasa and beer, Grand Rapids #westside
  • If my hometown was a candle it would smell like the ocean!! I grew up in the wonderful town of Portsmouth Rhode Island!!
  • Where is was born: The ocean, sweaty Marines, gun grease, and spent gunpowder - Jacksonville, NC
  • Where I grew up: Muck field, onions, and celery - Hudsonville, MI
  • TQOTD-My hometown is Enon, Ohio. It spells nonE backwards, very small town so nobody has anything better to do than talk crap, so the scented candle would smell like ARS!!! Yes ARS!!
  • Ionia. Smells like tears, failure, and bad decisions
  • Hometown is Colon Michigan, enough said!
  • TQOTD. Apple cider vinegar. I grew up in Belding and there was a apple processing plant down the road from my elementary school.
  • Frankenmuth and the candle would smell like Christmas and fried chicken.
  • My hometown is Grayling michigan. It would smell like freedom and diesel fuel. Grayling has one of the largest national gaurd based in michigan. It's full of military convoys, helicopters and the many men and woman fighting for our country. Merica
  • Small town in east tennessee.. budweiser, diesel and biscuits and gravy.
  • South side of Holland life savers plan it was amazing
  • Sorry I'm late on this but Coopersville and cow manure or the dump
  • My hometown candle would smell like Iron ore and beer. There are more bars then anything else in the small UP town of Negaunee. Neh gau nee
  • Nestle does smell amazing!
  • Middleville.... B.B.&B. (Bonfire, Boone's Farm & Brooks) lots of fires, booze and Garth Brooks in the teen years.)
  • My hometown is Shelby Michigan. And the candle would definitely be cow pies (cow poop) and asparagus. Because we had asparagus festivals every year
  • Hometown candle: engine exhaust on a chilly fall morning .... call me crazy all you want but Grand Rapids fall morning commute smell is (one of) the absolute BEST and brings back all the childhood warm and fuzzies! #tqotd #sisterwithabrain
  • A candle smelling like my hometown would smell like cooking orange peels because of the orange juice factory there.
  • If there was a candle that smelled like my hometown it would smell like ocean air and cement. I grew up on the ocean in Waldport, Oregon, and my dad worked in construction and always smelled of cement.
  • Hometown smell: hay, grass,river, and a barn I’m from Laingsburg, Mi too fish!
  • Hometown FREMONT. Smells like fresh purées peas and carrots from the GERBER baby food factory.
  • My hometown would smell like sweat and winners because we are the city of champions. Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.

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