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.
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.
unsmoked tobacco, smells amazing
Agree completely on this. Pipe tobacco in particular always smells great (but can’t stand the smell of smoke).
do be like a stink bug sometimes
Seems to be certain times of the year here (US South). Sometimes we go months without a bunch that smells like them, and other times it’s every bunch for a month (and we almost always have a bunch in the fridge).
Lentils. May be a combo of being sick/smelling them all the time but I literally have to open all the windows when I boil them
Why does pesto smell like feet yet taste so delicious?
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.
Any kind of fermented or pickled radish or daikon, smells like a fart, tastes like heaven.
Fish Sauce.
Love the flavor that it brings to dishes, even to uncooked sauces, but holy crap the smell.
Yeah, came here to say this. East Asia has a whole collection of sauces based on fermented fish that taste amazing and have no offensive smell when cooked, but dear God, the smell of the stuff before it’s cooked is horrifying.
We call it feet sauce in my house
Overly ripe papayas.
Always smell like rot. Taste like magic.
Pate. The smell of chicken liver is awful.
Did you know KFC used to sell deep fried chicken liver in some areas? My mom was crazy for it 🫣
Pure, concentrated cinnamon powder. Put the right amount into recipes and it’s amazing.
Durian smells so bad, but durian milkshake is just heaven
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.
