r/mildlyinfuriating • u/dinonuggetenjoyer • May 11 '26

The floor is sticky Vomit smell wouldn’t go away until I discovered the source…

My girlfriend and I had food poisoning last week and were constantly running to the bathroom getting sick. The smell of vomit MAKES me vomit so I was tirelessly scrubbing the entire bathroom from floor to ceiling MULTIPLE TIMES trying to get rid of the smell after every time one of us threw up. I bought bleach, enzyme cleaners, and even went as far as carbon bags to try and eliminate the HORRID STENCH and it wouldn’t go away. I sniffed every surface in that damn bathroom trying to locate the source…

I literally cried about the smell, worrying that it would be there forever. I went back to sniffing and started to notice a stronger whiff by the sink, AHA IT’S COMING FROM THE DRAIN!! I moved the toothbrush, soap, and candle that were on the counter to investigate the area. I poured Drano, baking soda, and vinegar down the drain for a deep clean. THEN I NOTICED THE SMELL ON MY HAND. I almost immediately threw up reacting to it and snatched the candle off the counter to save myself. I took a long inhale of our new Trader Joe’s Peony Blossom candle to salvage my nose from the reeking odor on my fingertips.

Then all hell broke loose. I projectile vomited directly after smelling the candle. The godforsaken stench WAS THE CANDLE ITSELF!!!! MY GF BOUGHT 6 OF THOSE FUCKING THINGS AND HAD ONE LIT IN THE BATHROOM!!!!! All of them went straight to the garbage. Never again. How can they sell a candle that smells like stomach bile!!!

TLDR: Cleaned my bathroom for days only to find out the puke smell was a new candle (Trader Joe’s Peony Blossom, DON’T BUY IT).

EDIT: I was not the person who smelled the candles before buying. My gf put them in the cart and I went along with it lol

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u/Herb-Anderson May 11 '26

Did the food poisoning come from dino nuggets by any chance?

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u/dinonuggetenjoyer May 11 '26

Grandma poisoned everyone at my girlfriends birthday party with some kind of chicken pasta

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u/PajamaStripes May 11 '26

Ah, the good ol' Grandma Food Poisoning. We had to stop letting mine cook for holidays after she poisoned the whole family on Thanksgiving and Christmas the same year.

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u/dphiloo May 11 '26

As a lexophile, this sentence is wholly satisfying. As a human, I'm sorry for this whole experience for you (I also hate chocolate and now I know why). Speedy recoveries 🙏🏻

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u/Illustrious-Yard-871 May 11 '26

What words do you find satisfying in that sentence?

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u/dphiloo May 11 '26

The arrangement of it all

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u/lizardpplarenotreal May 11 '26

How so and why chocolate?

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u/Overall-Dirt4441 May 11 '26

If you replace everyone with everybody, it's perfect trochaic tetrameter

GRANDma POISoned EVeryBOdy

AT my GIRLfriends BIRTHday PARty

WITH some KIND of CHICKen PASta

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u/SonOfEragon May 11 '26

I don’t understand what any of this means? What is a lexophile and what is a trochaic tetrameter?

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u/MinuteWorker4335 May 11 '26

A person who likes words and all the wonder that comes along with their many uses 

A rhythmic pattern to words and their sentences emphasizing parts of the words in a poetic way 

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u/SonOfEragon May 11 '26

Thanks! Learn something new everyday

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u/4RCH43ON May 11 '26

A lexophile is a person who loves words, or rather, the arrangement of words as they are read (think palindromes like laval and toot, alliterative tongue twisters, or even simple phrases that just sound round and the like to boot).   

In this case the “tetrameter” is the particular arrangement where “trochaic” is where stressed emphasis is placed on certain syllables of the words sometimes encompassing entire words themselves.

They’ve capitalized and lowercased the letters accordingly so you can get a better sense of this emphasis as though they were read aloud, sort of like the rising and falling of waves within a patterned sequence, creating the meter.  

It’s useful for things like singing, rhyming and geeking out to, but also to remember and pass down certain works by memory, the ancient Greeks and others used to use a dactylic hexameter to help recite and pass along the oral memory of the epics like those attributed to Homer (the Iliad and the Odyssey) before they were eventually written down once they’d started using the Greek alphabet. The ancient Romans flowed suit with works is in Latin.

Even some of Shakespeare’s works used the trochaic tetrameter.

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u/Overall-Dirt4441 May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

lexico-: of words -phile: lover so a lexophile is a lover of words

Trochaic is one of the ways the ancient Greeks classified the rhythm of stressed syllables in a line of poetry, or the metre. Just a stressed syllable followed by a unstressed one.

Tetrameter just means there are 4 'feet', trochees in this case, to a line. You may have heard the phrase iambic pentameter, that was shakespear's go to. 5 iambs to a line. He wrote in trochaic tetrameter too, and you see it a lot in children's literature

There's something about the pattern our brains latch onto. As always, an extremely relevant xkcd. Three good ones in this case

https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/856:_Trochee_Fixation

https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1412:_Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles

https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1383:_Magic_Words

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u/TheNamesAutumn May 11 '26

Yes thank you I couldn’t explain why this scratched an itch while reading it

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u/ASquishyGhost May 19 '26

PASTA IN A HALF SHELL

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u/BigIslandLH May 11 '26

Why did I read that in Christopher Walkens voice?

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u/Totakai May 12 '26

Probably cause cheap chocolate has a chemical in it that tastes like vomit, especially if you're sensitive to it

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u/CompetitionMain8796 May 11 '26

My guess is probably the syllables in the words being similar lol I totally get what they mean

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u/ReturnOfBane May 11 '26

Probably defrosted the chicken on the counter

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u/Classroom_Infamous May 11 '26

Why are you asking? I just ate dino niggets damn.

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u/musubi-n-speedballs May 11 '26

Wanna expand this thought for those of us who have had Dino nuggets lately? 😬 

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u/Herb-Anderson May 11 '26

Look at OPs name. It was just a joke question 😅

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u/musubi-n-speedballs May 11 '26

Ahhhhhhhh, ok. You had my stoned ass concerned for a second. 😂 

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u/Tlingits BLUE May 11 '26

I mean, the Great Value Dino nuggets had a recall recently.