Originally posted by: HumblePie
Uhh... my first job at Bill Miller Barbeque.
One night, we decided to clean UNDER the chicken table. This is the little stand with a heat lamp over it you put fried chicken after it's cooked to keep it warm and drain off some of the grease. We alwayed cleaned the grease trap out BUT I don't think they ever cleaned UNDER the stand as it was bolted to the floor with stainless steel metal sidings going all the way around and those were bolted too.
After we undid all the bolts and were able to move the stand there was about a one foot high, by 3 feet wide, by 3 feet long gelantinous "cube" of grease.
Looking inside you could see bits of chicken, dead rats, cockroaches, and other "stuff" that was hard to see through the opaqness of the gelatin grease cube. Well, this was the last hour of the night before closing and we didn't have too many customers in the place, just a dozen or so plus a dozen employee's. They wanted it cleaned then so it wouldn't interfere with my other cleaning duties later that night. Let it be known, at this point, there was NO SMELL, it was just plain disgusting to look at.
Well, I grabbed the mop and mop bucket and came back to start trying to figure out how to clean this sucker up.
The MOMENT I broke the skin of the "gelatin" with the mop head the smell broke free. EVERYONE inside the place instantly threw up. There was no reaction, there was no describing it, it was instant barf-o-rama. Even people walking by on the street were overcome by the instant puking sensation. That's about all I can say. The smell was SOO BAD, there wasn't any other way for my brain to register it. I can't even begin to describe or even REMEMBER what it smelled like. All I can remember is breaking that seal, and then 5 minutes later, my eyes being so watery, my stomach hurting from dry heaving, and my memory a complete fuzzy haze except for my body trying desperatly to do anything to get the fvck away from that spot at that instant.
Seriously, I've smelled dead bodies that have been left out to rot, and while thos smelled bad and I heaved around a few, I CAN REMEMBER the way those smell, despite them stinking. That gelatin ball was so bad, I just can't remember anything but feeling like I needed to either get away or I was going to die.
We had to call in Hazmat to clean theplace up because now the whole place was covered in puke AND no one could get near it without heaving. I seriously have no idea what all was in that thing to make it smell so bad as to cause that reacton, but realistically, I never want to know or find out again.
They even closed the place down for a week to get it cleaned up enough to be used again.
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