in today episode of "what is that smell"

This valley is agricultural, from the beach all the way to the mountains. If it's flat and there aren't houses built on it or oil pumping units on it, chances are it's being farmed. Years ago sugar beets were very common as a summer crop, that being so, Union Sugar had a processing plant on the west side of town out where the railroad could get to it. Beet harvest season saw all of the valley beets and a large amount of beets grown in many parts of SoCal here to be processed. For months when the wind was blowing in the usual direction most of town smelled like baking potatoes :lol:. "I'm hungry. Where is that damm sour cream?"