• LemmyThinkAboutThat@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
    9 months

    Butterfish It is delicious but smells so bad that nobody in my family wants to cook it at their house so we would go to our grandparents’. The aroma lingers for more than a day if you don’t properly aerate the place. Febreeze, candles and other air fresheners do not work.

    Bagoóng It is a Filipino condiment made of shrimp paste. There are other variations but still stinky.

    Durian @DisOne@lemmy.zip is right about the heavenly durian milkshakes! My siblings and I would eat them outside — we weren’t allowed to bring them inside the house.

  • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    9 months

    Anything with black salt in it. Eggs don’t bother me, but the extra sulfurous scent in black salt is so off-putting to me. Tasty when used right, tho!

    Used to be able to say natto, but it’s so tasty, cheap and nutritious that I’ve overcome my aversion and now it smells good to me.

    Honorary mention to Swedish cod roe paste (Kalles). I, personally, didn’t mind the smell, but my roommate would call it “pussy paste”. She was more nose sensitive, it seemed, though, as she was the only roommate who very politely asked me to wait until she’d eaten before I prepared the natto.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    9 months

    Stinky cheeses are all I can think of that fit the bill. Limberger is really good, but smells like dirty feet. Though, it’s nowhere near the pungency cartoons always made it seem like as a kid.

    Mostly, tho, smell highly influences the taste. If it smells bad, it usually tastes bad too.

  • DisOne@lemmy.zip
    9 months

    Durian smells so bad, but durian milkshake is just heaven

    • FauxPseudo @lemmy.world
      9 months

      This is exactly what I came here to say. Put a lid on that milkshake and I will scarf it down.

      • Trebuchet@europe.pub
        9 months

        I can imagine that it melts in the mouth, but i feel sorry for anybody in the vicinity when they were cooking it!

  • Okokimup@lemmy.world
    9 months

    This post brought to you by the acorn squash I just sliced. See also roasted red peppers and cilantro. I don’t have the soap thing, but it do be like a stink bug sometimes.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.world
      9 months

      My wife totally has the soap thing, and I must be a carrier for that gene, because I can see where the soapy flavor is coming from, but it doesn’t bug me.

      For the smell/taste thing, I have the opposite. I love the smell of roasting coffee… can’t stand coffee.

      Ditto unsmoked tobacco, smells amazing, cannot tolerate smoking.

      • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6 days

        My wife totally has the soap thing, and I must be a carrier for that gene, because I can see where the soapy flavor is coming from, but it doesn’t bug me.

        Perhaps your wife has two copies of the soapy variant of OR10A2, but you have only one? I.e., your wife has (C;C) at rs72921001, while you have (A;C).

  • hdsrob@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9 months

    Fish Sauce.

    Love the flavor that it brings to dishes, even to uncooked sauces, but holy crap the smell.

    • OneOverZero@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9 months

      The first person to think “hmm couple drops of this fish sauce in what I’m cookin might be good” had to be a little crazy. They were 100% right though lol.

  • MelonYellow@lemmy.caEnglish
    9 months

    Really don’t care for cabbage. My mom always said it smells like pig slop, not that I’ve ever smelled pig slop. But yeah I never liked it and I think that had something to do with it lol.

    • anon6789@lemmy.world
      9 months

      I came to vote for cooked cabbage. Love it in lots of things, but hate the cabbage stink and that keeps me from making it more often.

      Cannot confirm nor deny it smelling like pig slop. 😁

    • OneOverZero@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9 months

      Personally I love some cabbage and sausage cooked up in a nice fresh chicken broth. But I definitely can see where the smell would be a turn off for a lot of people 🤣

  • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    9 months

    I don’t eat meat anymore, but when I did the smell of bacon frying would literally make me sick. Came very close to hurling once just from frying bacon in a pan. I still liked the bacon itself though.