What's the worst smelling thing that you find good to eat?

Not really smelly, but it is really strong smelling,

I would say old school fried dumplings or “pot stickers” to some people,
Cheap and greasy goodness.

That’s just it, nothing smelly is going in my mouth, simple as.

I love that natto was on that list. Our Japanese professor brought some in for us in one of her classes. That stuff is… interesting.

The only thing I can think of is my white cheddar cheese popcorn, which I’m told smells like feet. I never notice it. Or maybe it’s my feet they’re smelling.

I bought some yummy kimchi at the farmer’s market a couple of weeks ago. My 5 year old nephew was spending the night and I went into the kitchen to get some of the kimchi. My mom shouted at my nephew, “Oh my god! Did you leave your stinky socks in the living room?” I felt so bad, because he hadn’t. After I told her what it was, she was kind of disgusted and absolutely refused to try the kimchi, even though I think she would like it a lot.

I made my own pickled onions recently, and they taste divine. You simply slice red onions and marinate them in lime juice, vinegar and a little bit of dried oregeno. But when you open the container, it’s pretty strong. They don’t smell bad, themselves, when you are eating them, but when you open the fridge, even though they’re inside a container with a lid, the fridge smells awful.

And of course, there’s feta cheese, or feet of the Gods as it’s sometimes called.

I have a very sensitive sense of smell. I don’t tend to eat things that smell bad (cabbage, brussel sprouts, fermented foods, ect.) And in spite of the “tastes like heaven, smells like hell” mystique, I didn’t find the durian flavor all that attractive (plus the fleshy fruit around each seed looks disturbingly like and has a similar texture to a preserved fetal pig).

Lutefisk and Lefse fundraisers are common here, the lefse is ok, but the lutefisk takes sme getting used to.

I love dried cuddlefish, which you chew like chewing gum.

I really have no idea how people eat foul smelling things like Pastrami.

corn beef hash

Fritos smell like dirty feet.

>pastrami
>foul smelling

I’m pretty sure it’s not supposed to smell foul.

Parmesan cheese – smells like vomit.

Yes, pastrami shouldn’t smell foul.

American Chinese fast food Orange Peel Chicken. I can eat it and even like it if I don’t sniff it.

Saurkraut (sp?) and stinky cheeses!

really ripe Camembert cheese

I’m with @Hawaii_Jake
I sort of like Camembert cheese, even though it smells like something you would use as industrial cleaner.

I admit to liking Durian fruit. My wife makes me eat it out side.

Spaghettios. Take a whiff sometime. Nasty.

Kippers. Also chips (french fries) deep fried in beef dripping. Both smell hideous while cooking and the stench lingers for ages, but they sure taste great.

I love sweet onion sauce. It doesn’t really smell that bad. I smells good. It just reminds me of my own man sweat.

Brussel sprouts. Smell so awful, taste so great.

Gorgonzola cheese.

Cauliflower!

@ZEPHYRA What kind of cauliflower are you eating?

@Michael_Huntington Humm, I’m from the South, and I never heard the term applied to dumplings. I do see the recipe here. But I ran into the term as an insult for a person. Here’s that meaning. And I’m guessing neither one smells very good. :-)

@ucme That might be a wise choice when food is plentiful, but it’s nice to know that in tough times, Limburger cheese will keep you alive.

@LittleLemon Thanks? And tell them from now on to keep their feet out of your white cheddar cheese pop-corn.

@Kardamom I’m right with you on all three. We love kimchi. We make pickled onions when the Haymarket has a great price on them, and get the same results. And yeah for feta cheese.

@syz I found durian acceptable, but not worth the stink. My wife loves it.

@WestRiverrat I never found the ordor of lutefisk all that off-putting. It’s look and texture, though, call to mind something that has spoiled in the can.

@filmfann You mean cuttlefish? The dried variety just smells pretty fishy.

@mowens I don’t mind the smell, but it is fairly strong.

@Judi We’re coming up with quite a list of dirty feet surrogates here. No matter how tasty some of our surrogate list may be, nobody start chowing down on real feet, OK?

@Michael_Huntington & @Kardamom So long as its fresh, pastrami smells good to me. But what is and isn’t good smelling (as in I can’t wait to eat that) is a very individualized thing).

@gasman Yes, I have noticed that about parmesan cheese, and yet I still love it.

@Neizvestnaya Talk about prepared chicken, I think Colonel Sanders original recipe smells pretty foul when you sniff at it. I guess it’s the oil. Maybe they use reclaimed motor oil to keep the cost down.

@Coloma Sounds like a fine sandwich filling to me.

@Hawaii_Jake & @josie Oh yes. Really ripe. :-)

@gondwanalon When we visited Thailand, my wife went to the floating market to get some. She was taking the Airbus (air conditioned as opposed to the open-air local buses) back and they threw her off, because even in Bangkok where so many love durian, some can’t handle the smell. She had to travel back on the open-air bus.

@GladysMensch A pleasure I have somehow managed to miss up to now. I’m committed to trying it.

@Pied_Pfeffer What sort of oil fried foods are prepared in has a great deal of impact on the resulting smell.

@Avangelo I love ‘em too, but yes, they do smell less than appetizing.

@marinelife Then I will have to try it.

@ZEPHYRA It’s got a smell similar to cabbage and brussel sprouts when cooking, but milder. I’m in @fundevogel‘s camp. It’s not so bad.

@ETpro Does it? I always toss it with olive oil and curry powder and roast it. It smells awesome.

@fundevogel The dominant smell there would be the curry, which I love. Invite me over to dinner the next time you whip up a mess of it. :-)

Probably Manchego. Smells awful, tastes delicious.

Other than certain cheeses, I can’t think of anything particularly smelly that I enjoy eating. If something smells odd to me, it will not go anywhere near my mouth. I will gag like crazy.

Rakfisk

Rakfisk is a Norwegian dish usually made from fresh trout or char that is salted, then fermented for two the three months in the juice that comes out of the fish. The rotten fish is then eaten raw and washed down with beer and potato liquor to help kill the deadly bacteria – and probably your taste buds.

That sounds fucking awesome. :D

Hmm, smelly foods I like…I denno, other than normal seafood that comes in cans, I can’t really think of anything. I don’t think it smells bad, but my roommate acts like I killed a baby every time I eat fish or oysters.

Also lol @durians. They have a sign telling you not to bring them on public transportation, even though it already has a sign telling not to bring any food. I find that rather amusing.

Kimchi, natto, century egg, shrimp paste and fish sauce don’t smell all that bad to me.

The only thing that I find to be stinky, but still like to eat, is stinky tofu.

The only thing on that list that I’ve tried and makes me gag is durian. It smells like something between rotten food and gasoline.

My dad knows that I hate it and thinks it’s funny to chase me around the house with it. He has a weird sense of humor.

I can’t believe that one of these “celebrity” chefs hasn’t come up with the idea for a restaurant that specifically features stinky (but delicious) foods. It could be called Stink Bomb!

@Kardamom Now that you mention it, why isn’t there a restaurant like that…?

@muppetish I haven’t tried Manchego. One more cheese on my must-try list.

@Symbeline Awesome indeed. Anyting you have to drink straight vodka to disinfect is a winner in my book. :-)

@Nimis Kimchi gets its reputation because of the smell while the vegetables are fermenting. It also manages to stink up the fridge right through the glass bottle and tightly closed metal cap.

@Kardamom There’s a celebrity chef reality show just waiting for you.

@Symbeline I guess it’s up to us Jellies to open it.

@ETpro Awesome indeed. Anyting you have to drink straight vodka to disinfect i a winner in my book. :-)

That’s you and me both, bro.

And there’s always the Stinkhorn Mushroom. They smell like rotting meat—like a corpse decomposing. But they are actually perfectly edible.

Nothing. I could never eat anything that I didn’t like the smell of. I don’t even put romano or parmesan cheese on my pizza or spaghetti.

Only cheese that I can think of. Stilton and parmesan smell but taste so good.

Strawberries, believe it or not. I like the taste of fresh strawberries (if they’re not over-ripe) but I hate the smell of them and I hate anything that’s strawberry-flavoured.

^^ Wow, that’s so unfortunate. You must not be smelling them in the same way that I do. I think the scent of strawberries is one of the most heavenly things on earth.

@Paradox25 That’s rather sad.

@Bellatrix They sure do taste good. Too much is not a good thing, though. Maybe that’s what the smell is telling us.

@downtide I’m with @Kardamom on strawberries. They smell and taste great to me. In fact, this evening’s desert was a mix of fresh chopped strawberries and blueberries in blueberry yogurt. Divine.

Years ago there was a widely available delicious cheese called Liederkranz, an American derivation from its close cousin Limburger. It came in a little wooden box (thin balsa type wood; nothing special) and was a Borden product. Years later , Borden abandoned it along with the rest of their natural cheese lines in favor of processed cheese. Thanks, Borden ~

My Mother would pack it for my lunch at school and you can imagine the comments it provoked from my classmates, but i didn’t care. I loved that stuff, especially on dark Pumpernickel bread.

I was so disappointed when it was no longer available in supermarkets since it was creative and tasted so much better than Limburger.

Ive had to satisfy my penchant for stinky cheese with Gorgonzola Dolce, not exactly widely available. So I now settle for regular Gorgonzola but thats a very poor substitute for either the G. Dolce or Liederkranz.

I seem to be destined for the perpetual frustration of loving gourmet cheeses difficult to find and purchase. Sigh…...

@Buttonstc Try here.

Thanks for the link. I checked the price and thats bad enough for only 6 oz. But when you add the flats fee for shipping ($13. plus) that ends up being over $20.

So basically $60 per pound. Thats pretty damn. expensive cheese.

When I lived in Philly, there were several Whole Foods stores at a decent proximity and they usually had Gorgonzola Dolce for part of each year (its from Italy and evidently theres some seasonality to it.

But here, the nearest WF is over an hour away. Sigh…..

There’s a Whole Foods about a mile from here. I’ve got to go within blocks of it Thursday for a follow up with my ophthalmologist, and had already planned to drop in. I’ll check to see if they have it.

I can’t bring myself to put anything that smells bad in my mouth. It would have to be doused with something else to change the smell.

@flo Sensitive sniffer, hey?

OMG! how lucky are people who can eat anything! One of the statements on the list link:
“This”:”The fact that lutefisk destroys sterling silver is pretty freaky too. O_O” How is that edible?

@ETpro I mean lucky who can eat fish. I can’t even eat fish without having to hold my breath.

@flo Any fish you have to hold your breath to eat is not fresh. Sashimi quality fish is completely odorless.

@ETpro okay I’m kind of exaggerating, I’m not that bad. Thanks for the tip re. Sashimi.