'Cabbagegate' vexing Layton residents after field of cabbage was left to rot

Image by: Supplied photo/Ben Peterson
One of the many piles of cabbage in West Layton.

The neighbors are calling it “Cabbagegate.”

Personally, I prefer “Coleslawpocalypse,” “Slawmageddon” or even “Sauerkrautastrophe.”

Since last fall, residents of the Pheasant Place subdivision in west Layton have been doing battle with hordes of angry-smelling cabbages in a field off 500 South at about 1500 West. Among those leading that fight has been 34-year-old Mark Brough, who lives nearby with his wife and son.

“The farmer planted the cabbage last summer, but didn’t care for it after that,” Brough explains. “He never did come to harvest it, and the cabbage in the field was left to rot. It’s been rotting there all fall and winter.”

I do love a good coleslaw — whose main ingredient is cabbage — but I’m not personally acquainted with the smell of that particular vegetable when it starts to spoil. Another Pheasant Place neighbor, Stephanie Heiner, offers this vivid description on Facebook: “The smell can only be described as an animal that rolled in cooked broccoli, climbed into a heating unit, curled up next to a soiled diaper and bad chicken, died and is rotting there as the heat slowly rots it all.”

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