There was also a slight smell of decaying food or animal.

Meanwhile, the dump grows bigger and higher: there are plastic containers filled with decaying food, hundreds of plastic bottles, factory rejects including drugs.

They promptly removed and disposed of all the decaying food.

They smelt the drain before they saw it; a foul odour of human waste and decaying food slops.

In every comer you came upon piles of smashed furniture, broken saddles, brass cavalry-helmets, empty sabre-scabbards, and decaying food.

What animal would lie there with decaying food sitting on its head?

Okay, you're getting everything from the decaying food in her gut to her deepest buried childhood fears of an empty echoing house.

There were not even rushes upon the floor which was strewn with old bones and pieces of decaying food.

A I would make an educated guess and say that the 'fungus' growing on the bogwood is the result of decaying food.