# Foodstuffs you love the smell of, but hate the taste **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [October 16, 2020, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foodstuffs-you-love-the-smell-of-but-hate-the-taste/923083 "2020-10-16T07:06:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foodstuffs-you-love-the-smell-of-but-hate-the-taste/923083/41 "2020-10-19T17:13:57Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I’m a smoker, so maybe don’t count my vote, but there’s a lot of non-smokers (and smokers) that kinda like the smell of cigarette smoke. I can’t stand the smell of _cigarette_ smoke, but I do love the smell of cigar and pipe spoke. Yet the couple of times in my life I’ve tried smoking a cigar I hated the taste. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2020, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foodstuffs-you-love-the-smell-of-but-hate-the-taste/923083/42 "2020-10-19T17:57:18Z")
> [@Ryz](#): > > Coffee. Near where I live is a small company that produces coffee, the smell, when you drive past, is really nice, but whenever I’ve tasted coffee I’ve never liked it. In downtown Jacksonville FL there’s a large Maxwell House coffee factory. The first couple minutes in the area smells nice. Then it’s like being trapped in a diner where the old ratty coffee in the bottom of a forgotten pot is being slowly boiled to crunchies. The county jail is just downwind; I don’t know whether that stink gets on folks’ nerves. But it sure might. https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=%213m2%212sen%214v0%216m8%211m7%211sME9-5vB4CukY_LcuQ0R-YQ%212m2%211d30.3261702%212d-81.6500523%213f167.75%214f9.451%215f0.9 ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2020, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foodstuffs-you-love-the-smell-of-but-hate-the-taste/923083/43 "2020-10-19T19:39:03Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I’m shocked my the number of people who dislike chestnuts. I adore chestnuts. Absolutely. Best if very slightly burned in the roasting. > [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > I love the aroma of hot celeriac root soup, but really find the flavor kinda gross. For me it’s oxtail soup. Funny thing is, I liked it as a kid. I still like the smell, but no way could I eat it. j ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2020, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foodstuffs-you-love-the-smell-of-but-hate-the-taste/923083/44 "2020-10-19T20:34:47Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > In downtown Jacksonville FL there’s a large Maxwell House coffee factory. The first couple minutes in the area smells nice. Then it’s like being trapped in a diner where the old ratty coffee in the bottom of a forgotten pot is being slowly boiled to crunchies. In an area where I spent a lot of my teen years there was a tannery. I think they really ramped down production by the time I was hanging out in that area since I never really noticed it, but friends who had lived there were still holding their noses as we drove past on the assumption it would smell bad. Where I went to school, we were surrounded my a lot of cabbage farms. It’s not that noticeable most of the year, but come late summer/fall, when they were harvesting, it could get overwhelming if you were driving past it. I also currently live near a Patrick Cudahy/Smithfield plant. I drive past it on a regular basis it it nearly always smells like bacon within about a half mile or so. That’s no big deal, but I can’t imagine living within smelling range. It would get old quick if all you could smell was bacon every time you walked out of the house. And, I assume, at least for the people living closer, it must get into their house as well. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2020, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foodstuffs-you-love-the-smell-of-but-hate-the-taste/923083/45 "2020-10-20T17:03:27Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > In an area where I spent a lot of my teen years there was a tannery. Pfister & Vogel? It was still (barely) in operation when I moved to Milwaukee in 1998 but closed for good in 2000. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2020, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foodstuffs-you-love-the-smell-of-but-hate-the-taste/923083/46 "2020-10-20T17:28:26Z")
> [@jnglmassiv](#): > > Pfister & Vogel? > It was still (barely) in operation when I moved to Milwaukee in 1998 but closed for good in 2000 No this was Cudahy Tanning. Online articles say it closed in 2007, but if it was still operating that late, it must have minimal. I have no recollection of smelling it and I had been hanging out in that neighborhood since the late 90s. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foodstuffs-you-love-the-smell-of-but-hate-the-taste/923083.md?page=2)