Do you enjoy eating stinky food?

I love Kimchi as an ingredient in dishes.
Give me some good warmed limburger.
My Gramdmothers lutefisk was not my cup of tea.

I like mini gerkins pickles.
I like, but can’t eat anymore, pickled cauliflower or cabbage/sourkraut.

I like Hawaiian Pizza.
I like sardines and smoked oysters.
I like sushi but my doctor says no.
I like poutine with vinegar and ketchup.

No. I like pleasant smells. Stinky food, to me at least, affects the taste.

Kimchi yes, not so much the rest. I also like almost spoiled milk, too. :)

I also like straight buttermilk.
I also like sour cream on pyrogies and potatoes.

I don’t enjoy stinky food. The thing is, once I like a certain kind of food, its smell is automatically pleasant to me, even when it belongs to the “stinky food” category. So I’m not the best person to answer this question when the food I like always smells good to me.

Funny you asked this question because recently I have developed a taste for natto. I like it so much that my family has been buying beans just to make natto. I don’t care what anyone says, its smell is the best :)

I eat lots of fish.
I used to make my nephew gag when I ate canned fish steaks, become of the smell.
I felt that was a little over dramatic, but they are pungent.

I’ve eaten fresh fish caught the same afternoon, and I feel like they don’t smell near as bad.
But my fingers get a fish smell stain for a couple days just from handling and cleaning the fish.

I love shrimp, but they can make me nauseous when boiled.

I find venison to smell pretty bad when it’s cooking, but tastes good.

Mostly no. I don’t like too many stinky foods.

Worth pointing out that a lot of them are supposedly good for you.

Not Chinese, but there is an Italian restaurant that I like where I live, but it smells like really strong parmesan cheese inside, and it grosses me out. I get used to it if I am in the restaurant for long enough, but I try to eat al fresco at that restaurant. Needless to say, I don’t like parmesan cheese. If it is fresh and melted with other cheeses it is ok, but I prefer without.

I do eat tuna salad, maybe that counts? But, it has to be solid white, which isn’t very stinky.

@Mimishu1995 It surprises me that you generally enjoy non-stinky foods but you enjoy natto. I can’t get near that stuff. Smells like bad breath to me. I tolerate my wife eating all the stinky foods she loves. I’ve gotten use to the ugly smells and I never complain.. Everything is good as long as I don’t have to eat it.

Of course if I was starving then I’ve be very happy to ear about anything (except whatever that rotting dog smell is).

In a way I’m like my cats. They’re pretty finicky because they can be and get away with it.

@JLeslie Strong Italian cheeses are very stinky. In college the students next door got some cheese with little maggots in it. It’s a very expensive delicacy. It was putrid and disgusting. You even should wear eye protection to meet the maggots from jumping into your eyes, Believe it or not I actually ate a little on a dare. A couple other students ate some also. Then the bulk of it went right into the trash.

At work a couple of times at lunch I got into trouble by heating up salmon in the lunch room microwave. That smelled up the entire area. People sitting around me complained that they couldn’t smell their food. All they could smell was salmon.

Stinky cheeses, yes, I love them, the stinkier the better. Most other stinky food, like you mentioned, not so much.

@RedDeerGuy1 Fun fact: Only 64% of Americans under 21 like sour cream. Compared to 79% and over for those over 21. Weird stat!

I don’t like sour cream, I didn’t know that stat. The only place I eat it is I put it in stroganoff.

As we age our taste buds dull, just like our eyes and hearing, so I think we are better able to handle stronger flavors. Most children like bland, what we used to call white food, meaning white colored food, not white people. Foods like chicken, pasta, potatoes, butter, vanilla ice cream, yellow cake, and bread.

When I was a kid I hated salad dressing it was way too strong for me. All salad dressings. I could maybe try a little taste of it, like dip a fork in it and whatever clung to the very end (a few millimeters) of the tines. Now, I use plenty of dressing on my salad, and love the ones that have a strong vinegar taste.

Typically no, I don’t like them. Brie cheese, for instance, smells like dirty sweat socks to me. Beef liver is another. It smells like burned rubber to me. I tend to have the opinion that if I can’t get my nose near it, it certainly isn’t going into my mouth. You mentioned Kimchi. I always felt kimchi smelled okay, but I just didn’t like the taste. It hit all my taste buds wrong.

I don’t find kimchee to be stinky. Stinky tofu is as stinky as I’ll go. When my mom has durian, I send her to the patio and close the door behind her.