Foods that smell bad but taste good, in your opinion.

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  • ISweat4This
    ISweat4This Posts: 653 Member
    Asparagus and brussel sprouts. My daughter always ask if the dog pooped on the floor :/
  • RuNaRoUnDaFiEld
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld Posts: 5,864 Member
    rkmomm wrote: »
    Cooked cauliflower. Smells like old garbage.

    Snap, hate the smell but love it!
  • TR0berts
    TR0berts Posts: 7,739 Member
    Liverwurst

    And liver and onions - at least when cooking.
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    Smelly cheeses, boiled eggs
  • Kimblesnbits13
    Kimblesnbits13 Posts: 369 Member
    EGGS!
  • jbirdgreen
    jbirdgreen Posts: 569 Member
    I agree with eggs, especially hard-boiled. Any cooked greens have a sulfur-like smell while they are simmering/braising/boiling.
  • HeidiCooksSupper
    HeidiCooksSupper Posts: 3,839 Member
    My mother's New England Boiled Dinner (corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, and carrots boiled to death).
  • MollyJE19
    MollyJE19 Posts: 67 Member
    Broccoli.
  • asianolikeyou
    asianolikeyou Posts: 393 Member
    Cabbage, raw or boiled, smells foul - but it is so delicious
  • sgt1372
    sgt1372 Posts: 3,997 Member
    Few foods smell bad to me but I will not eat those that do.

    The only things that I can think of right now are liver (in its raw form, no problem if its processed into foie gras, pate or liverswurst), durian and incompletely cleaned tripe or intestines (if it smells poopy, I won't eat it, but otherwise it's not a problem).
  • aeloine
    aeloine Posts: 2,163 Member
    Beets. Nothing worse than boiling beets.
  • czmiles926
    czmiles926 Posts: 130 Member
    Ripe camembert
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,944 Member
    I had a durian candy the other day. it was really delicious! (until my eyes started tearing after a while)
  • Graelwyn75
    Graelwyn75 Posts: 4,404 Member
    Hard boiled eggs and Stilton cheese. The latter smells like dirty socks.
  • Mezzie1024
    Mezzie1024 Posts: 380 Member
    Papaya
    Jackfruit
    Fish sauce
    Brussels sprouts
    Many hard cheeses

    I can't weigh in on Durian -- it smells so strongly of sewage, I haven't been able to get close enough to eat it.
  • sdolan91
    sdolan91 Posts: 250 Member
    hard boiled eggs
  • cerise_noir
    cerise_noir Posts: 5,468 Member
    Stilton cheese, smoked herring, liver and onions.
  • get_fit2009
    get_fit2009 Posts: 827 Member
    Quinoa. It smells like cut grass, but I like the taste.

  • CynthiasChoice
    CynthiasChoice Posts: 1,047 Member
    The smell of cooked broccoli gets complaints in my house, but everyone likes to eat it.
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    So many I see others have named...pickles, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kimchi, fish sauce, boiled eggs, feta, etc.

    Garlic in general.

    Subway (the restaurant) smells exactly like vomit to me when I walk in...I think it's some of the bread they have baked, and I always get the flatbread, so I'm not sure if this one counts. I like a nice steak & egg breakfast sub there now and then...the smell is just gross to me. Once I was in the post office immediately after lunch at Subway and I thought someone in the line had puked on themselves and it turned out it was MY JACKET :cold_sweat:
  • hungreeteacher17
    hungreeteacher17 Posts: 135 Member
    cooked broccoli & cooked cauliflower
  • helena99716
    helena99716 Posts: 62 Member
    Ground meat, raw or prepared... And onion powder. The smell of these actually makes me gag.
  • beaglady
    beaglady Posts: 1,362 Member
    edited August 2017
    Ripe cantaloupe
  • AngryViking1970
    AngryViking1970 Posts: 2,847 Member
    So many I see others have named...pickles, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kimchi, fish sauce, boiled eggs, feta, etc.

    Garlic in general.

    Subway (the restaurant) smells exactly like vomit to me when I walk in...I think it's some of the bread they have baked, and I always get the flatbread, so I'm not sure if this one counts. I like a nice steak & egg breakfast sub there now and then...the smell is just gross to me. Once I was in the post office immediately after lunch at Subway and I thought someone in the line had puked on themselves and it turned out it was MY JACKET :cold_sweat:

    OMG, yes to the Subway stench! It clings to you. :s
  • Queenmunchy
    Queenmunchy Posts: 3,380 Member
    Turnips!
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,231 Member
    Asafetida/asafoetida, which is a flavoring. I've bought it, but never could bring myself to put it in food I was cooking. Raw, it smells like rotting dead animal flesh. Strongly, even in small amounts, at quite a distance. Awful.

    But I've had food cooked with it, and it was delicious.
  • LiveLoveFitFab
    LiveLoveFitFab Posts: 302 Member
    bpetrosky wrote: »
    Durian.

    Durian all the way baby. I ordered a durian shake on the second date with my now husband. He thought I was kiddding and the restaurant was in on the joke. No way I'd make a joke by ordering that bad boy. He declined to taste it. His loss. Love me some Durian.
  • DanniB423
    DanniB423 Posts: 777 Member
    edited August 2017
    Fritos. Taste good. Smell horrible.
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