The Sweet Smell of Excess

For several months, a sweet aroma comparable to maple syrup appeared over the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York, without a clue about its point of origin. Mayor Michael Bloomberg had the source investigated, and it turned out that the aroma was coming from ester being refined at a food processing plant in North Bergen, New Jersey, just west of Midtown.

I don't want to hear New Yorkers complaining about the smells coming from New Jersey again. They should be glad that we have factories that replace the grimy smells of the city with the sweet, fragrant aroma of a Sunday morning pancake breakfast.