Purina Needs to Go

[oneforone]

My God....that plant stinks up the whole city!! OKC, Edmond and probably even Norman is getting a dose.

I can't believe it but there are plenty of times I'm down around 63rd and May and I can smell that plant!!!

YUK!! I hate the smell of dog food and that company is making me not want to ever move back to Edmond.

That smell is nothing compared to the smell from a crematorium. When I was in the military stationed in Okinawa our base dorm was located down wind from one. In Japan, they do not require the filters that are used on most creamatoriums around the United States.

It was the most horrid smell you could ever imagine. Our air conditioner failed one night when they had the creamatorium in operation. It was so hot and humid you had to keep the windows open to keep the rooms remotely cool. I had to place one of those Stick Up hockey puck air fresheners under my nose just so I could go to sleep.

[MuseMOKC]

That smell is nothing compared to the smell from a crematorium. When I was in the military stationed in Okinawa our base dorm was located down wind from one. In Japan, they do not require the filters that are used on most creamatoriums around the United States.

It was the most horrid smell you could ever imagine. Our air conditioner failed one night when they had the creamatorium in operation. It was so hot and humid you had to keep the windows open to keep the rooms remotely cool. I had to place one of those Stick Up hockey puck air fresheners under my nose just so I could go to sleep.

I spent one year living across the road from a creamatorium in Indianapolis. It was the WORST experience in my life. The smell of dog food is a joy compared to that.

[BB37]

It was there long, long ago and it provides jobs. I grew up where I could smell packing town and lived through it.....(moo)

It's been there at least since the late 60s. I went to school at Oklahoma Christian University at Memorial and Eastern, about a mile east of the Purina plant, from '71 to '75, and I remember the dog chow aroma whenever the wind was out of the west.

And growing up around Shepherd Mall, I remember the fragrance wafting from the Stockyards when the wind was out of the south/southwest.

"Good times, Probie; good times."

[bluedogok]

Cain's Coffee used to be around 63rd. In fact, I THINK it was the original owner of what became William E Davis and Sons, which, I THINK is something else now.

Cain's was on the West Service Road of Broadway Extension just south of Memorial, pretty close to the Purina plant. Sara Lee closed it in 2003 moving production to Houston.

Here's an Journal Record article about the closure with some history about Cain's.
bnet.com - Sara Lee to close OKC Cain's Coffee plant

The most fragrant bread plant that I remember was the Mrs. Baird's at Central Expressway and Mockingbird Lane in Dallas, it was right on the corner and you could smell it driving by on Central Expressway. Grupo Industrial Bimbo closed it in 2002.

[PennyQuilts]

That smell is nothing compared to the smell from a crematorium. When I was in the military stationed in Okinawa our base dorm was located down wind from one. In Japan, they do not require the filters that are used on most creamatoriums around the United States.

It was the most horrid smell you could ever imagine. Our air conditioner failed one night when they had the creamatorium in operation. It was so hot and humid you had to keep the windows open to keep the rooms remotely cool. I had to place one of those Stick Up hockey puck air fresheners under my nose just so I could go to sleep.

Okay, you win the prize. EEEWWWW.

[Dustin]

A lot of people are employed there.. it shouldn't go.

[OKBound]

For those that have jobs there, it's the smell of money.

Knew a hairstylist that had her salon in her house that you could only enter by an exterior door. Her son always complained about the smell when someone had a body wave done. The last time he whined about the smell, she pointed to the tennis shoes he "had to have" and said that smell bought those shoes. He never complained again after that.

[Jethrol]

For those that have jobs there, it's the smell of money.

Knew a hairstylist that had her salon in her house that you could only enter by an exterior door. Her son always complained about the smell when someone had a body wave done. The last time he whined about the smell, she pointed to the tennis shoes he "had to have" and said that smell bought those shoes. He never complained again after that.

That smell hasn't bought me any tennis shoes....where are my SHOES!! lol

And yeah, it could be worse....pig farms, stockyard city...yeah, there are worse smells. But come on, dog food stinks and when it's calm, it stinks up the whole damn city....both of them.

[bandnerd]

But come on, dog food stinks and when it's calm, it stinks up the whole damn city....both of them.

So what? You would rather sacrifice a whole bunch of people's jobs just for your nose?

I'm incredibly sensitive to smells and I can think of a lot more offensive smells than the Purina plant.

[bluedogok]

It's been there a long, long time, anyone moving in the vicinity of should know the possibility of odors. I lived at 33rd & Santa Fe, Danforth & Fretz and 122nd & Penn and worked at Britton & Broadway for 11 years and between 63rd & Wilshire on Broadway for three years for and didn't smell it. That was before I had allergies and could actually smell odors. The only time that I have smelled it was when I was within a mile of the plant and the wind was fairly strong.

[Richard at Remax]

I live just east of UCO off 2nd and I have never smelled it.

[td25er]

Over the years, I've had a few whiffs of the dog food, but maybe 5 times. I've ridden my bike on the river trails near the stockyards and the smell almost knocked me over.

[PennyQuilts]

Over the years, I've had a few whiffs of the dog food, but maybe 5 times. I've ridden my bike on the river trails near the stockyards and the smell almost knocked me over.

It used to hit you on the crosstown like a sledgehammer, at times. I nearly ran off the road. "Make it stop!!"

[mugofbeer]

Oh, yeah! The childhood memories that come back growing up within nose shot of the stockyards. Smelling that and hearing the stock cars at the fairgrounds on Friday nights. That really is instant memories.

[smooth]

It used to hit you on the crosstown like a sledgehammer, at times. I nearly ran off the road. "Make it stop!!"

It could be worse. Just think of the romantic odor of the sewage treatment plant around NE 10 and I-35, and combine that with the sounds of the AK-47's in the middle of the night. You could smell that thing with all the windows up and traveling at 70 miles per hour, with a slow speed wind.

[sacolton]

Maybe it's just me, but I think it smells good. Nothing like the smell of hot kibbles and bits.

[NikonNurse]

Imagine having to pick my grandfather up from work at Wilson's foods everyday. That was the source of the cross town smell!!

[hipsterdoofus]

Imagine having to pick my grandfather up from work at Wilson's foods everyday. That was the source of the cross town smell!!

Your grandfather smelled bad?

[Jethrol]

Anyone smell it this morning? Boy I did. It's so much worse when there's no wind.

[hipsterdoofus]

No Jethrol, no I didn't..I live less than 2 miles from Purina and didn't smell it at all. I'd think it would be worse if there was wind...unless you live right under it.

[Debzkidz]

I did.

[smooth]

One question to you people who don't like businesses near your homes. Where would you locate Purina? Think about it. No matter where it is, people like you would find something to complain about.

[SoonerBent]

Dog food doesn't smell bad at all compared to the feed lots off of I-40 near Amarillo. Those people I feel sorry for.

[USG '60]

Or the pig farms in Iowa.

[corpsman]

Imagine having to pick my grandfather up from work at Wilson's foods everyday. That was the source of the cross town smell!!

Anyone within 5 miles north or south of Wilson's, depending on whether it was winter or summer, when they were rendering lard had a really bad day.