Smells Like Cheese Cake In Here!

3:14 pm in Chef's Corner Stories, Featured by Chef Keem

A few years ago, I managed a cheese cake factory. At any given time we had over 60 pies either baking in the ovens or cooling on the racks. Naturally, the room was filled with aromas of vanilla, lemon and caramelized custard.

So far, so good. Except…!

Once a month, the truck from the waste disposal company stopped by, to empty out the grease trap located in a corner of our large factory hall. We basically could smell their arrival through closed doors, but then they brought their hose inside. Our vanilla “nirvana” turned quickly into a “no wanna” (be in here anymore, that is!). But whatcha gonna do if the cakes need to be supervised? Stick it out and hold your nose, right?

I’ll never forget the day when the driver handed me the work slip for my signature. He looked me in the eyes and said with a blissful expression on his face:

“Smells like cheese cake in her!”

I didn’t think so.

Oh, how often I think about this little incident! I can see the driver’s face in my mind as if he were standing in front of me right now. The conviction of truth in his statement expressed with a joyous smile…and yet – from just three feet away, I couldn’t have disagreed any stronger!

Thinking up analogies to this story tickles my chef whites pink:

  • The fabulous taste of a piece of dry bread when you’re starved…
  • The rejuvenating power of fresh water on a hot summer day…
  • The beauty of a small blossom in a crack of the asphalt…
  • The unexpected apology from my enemy…
  • The friendly smile in a scary stranger’s face…

The glory of cheese cake aroma when you smell nothing but s**t all day…

Can you think of any more analogies?

Doesn’t it feel good to remember beauty?

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