45th and Lamar

Smells like: a frosty marg with the slightest hint of a salty chipFor years I have attempted to use scent to capture the spirit of locations I enjoy in my hometown, but until now I have not been fully honest with you or myself about the Austin space in which I probably spend the most time: r/austin. I am strictly a lurker, but the Austin subreddit is an excellent place to discover that there are not any good restaurants here (debatable!) and the drivers are terrible (true) and it hasn't actually been cool or weird in any way since 1974 or 1994 or 2014, depending on when the Redditor arrived (2002).But it's also a good place for HEB memes and gallows humor about the weather (special shoutout to the Redditor who, upon seeing a post indicating that a one-million day streak of 100+ degrees was about to end, asked if they should drip their pipes) and actual helpful advice about things both intense and mundane. It's also a place where, in an inside joke that predates my arrival in the subred