"The Taco"

So last night I decided to try a UPS taco from our mexican place. I've eaten from the deli, both pizza places, the italian, pacific rim, the grille, and the "full fare" (no clue) sections, so I thought...eh. Chicken taco.

So I got two. Only they were really big. And since they wrap them in butcher paper, I took the uneaten one back to our room and put it in the fridge.

A few hours later I open the fridge to get my iced tea, and am met with this waft of TACO. Like, bad fart taco. And I was thinking..."did I actually EAT that?" Within seconds the whole room just REEKED. It was terrible.

We opened the fridge once more last night when Kei was over, and I tried to convince my roommate to let me throw it away, but she was all "NO. I'll eat it, ok?" And I responded: "If our room smells this bad now, what it it going to be like when you MICROWAVE that thing?"

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So today. Sarah comes back from classes and opens the fridge to get her water. I'm playing Tetris and I have to hit pause because the smell is so bad that my eyes are watering and I feel ill. I joke that her water might taste like taco. She takes a sip, swallows it, and gives her bottle this LOOK. "EWWWWWWWWW!"

Yeah. The smell was *THAT* strong. Eau de flavoring. She left the room to washher nalgene out a few times, and I sat there, breathing the stench.

She walks back in and gags, then proceeds to grab her Febreeze and spray it randomly around the room. We were too afraid to open the fridge to get at the taco.

Then we tried popping some Kettle Corn. Didn't really help the smell. I knew that I couldn't throw it away in the big trash can in the hall, because that would just make the ENTIRE DORM smell like taco.

So I told Sarah to hold her breath, flung the fridge open, and hurled it out our open window.

We're leaving to get baking soda tomorrow.

I told Kei later that the taco flew. We decided that the "Tacoma Aroma", usually attributed to the local paper mill, is actually caused by hundreds of grossed out freshman girls flinging cold college cafeteria tacos out windows.