Fish Sauce.

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

Eggs smell so bad cooking but taste so good.

Broccoli too.

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.

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.

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

Any kind of fermented or pickled radish or daikon, smells like a fart, tastes like heaven.

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.

Overly ripe papayas.

Always smell like rot. Taste like magic.

Pate. The smell of chicken liver is awful.

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.

Vinegar is pretty universally hated a scent. Most foods wouldn't be the same without it.

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.

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.

Tripe. I can't stand the smell while menudo is cooking but it's so damn tasty!

The smell of peanut butter is terrible, but I love eating it.

Tum mak hoong, in a way. To anyone not from SEA, it can be quite off putting. Being formerly married to a Laotian woman, I got used to the smells pretty quick. Now all of that fermented stuff smells good to me.

Some of the ingredients, on their own, have very powerful aromas. Fish sauce is the one people would know off hand. Also used is shrimp paste and crab paste, which are very pungent.

However, when combined with the rest of the ingredients, it creates this awesome papaya salad. Depending upon how many peppers you put in, the heat level can be insane.

My then-MIL originally taught me to make it with fish sauce, crab paste, and shrimp paste. Another family member taught me to make it with Padaek, which is an ingredient that you store in a bag, in a bag. It is some gnarly stuff, with chunks of fermented fish mixed in it, so you know it’s good. Kidding aside, it provides some truly amazing flavors. But dear lord, it is pretty rank.

Highly recommend trying Tum Mak Hoong! Laotian food is so good. When you order the papaya salad, make sure you order Laap to go with it.

Personally I love the smell, but whenever I eat Natto everyone in the house is upset.

I like eating the candied jalapeños. They also smell fine once canned.

Cooking them is bad as it's vinegar, more vinegar, a lot of vinegar, and hot vinegar and turmeric and jalapeños makes the kitchen feel deadly lmao.

I have to remember the smell of chicken broth is just part of the process to get to chicken and dumplings.

I don't think I have any. Im pretty picky and is something smells bad I can't move on to eat it.

Pure, concentrated cinnamon powder. Put the right amount into recipes and it's amazing.

Any kind of greens.