# It smells terrible and tastes like it smells! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 29, 2011, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-smells-terrible-and-tastes-like-it-smells/580129 "2011-04-29T04:56:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2016, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-smells-terrible-and-tastes-like-it-smells/580129/41 "2016-01-04T01:59:08Z")
> [@Mangosteen](#): > > I knew Durian would come up, but unless you have eaten it _fresh_ in the tropics in a place like Malaysia or Hawaii, you haven’t really given it a chance. Utter nonsense! Durian is evil fruit, period. It is pure shit from Satan himself. A story I’ve told on this Board before: One time in the early years of our marriage, the wife and I lived in a small one-room efficiency. The bed was the centerpiece of the room, there was a refrigerator next to it, and we viewed TV and videos from the bed. One day, we made the cross-city trek to see the wife’s parents, who were still alive then. This was before the Skytrain, when these things could take half a day. We returned home that evening, and unbeknownst to me my mother-in-law had given the wife some durian. It was wrapped in foil and sealed in a Tupperware bowl. When we got home, she put it inside the refrigerator. So it’s sealed in aluminum foil, a Tupperware bowl and a refrigerator. I still don’t know about it. We watch a movie. Some ways into it, I begin noticing this awful, awful smell, subtle at first, but definitely putrid. I think it’s me! We keep watching the movie, and the smell just grows stronger. I’m thinking Man! I really need to take a shower. A little while later, I’m thinking the wife could actually divorce me, I’ve never smelled this bad before. After the movie, I actually apologized for my smell and said I was off to take a shower. That’s when I learned about the durian, which was really stinking the place up at that point. My previous thread: [Durian, the Evil Fruit](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=523603&highlight=durian) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2016, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-smells-terrible-and-tastes-like-it-smells/580129/42 "2016-01-04T07:41:16Z")
Kimchi often smells (to me anyway) like a gas leak, but it tastes awesome. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2016, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-smells-terrible-and-tastes-like-it-smells/580129/43 "2016-01-04T07:53:08Z")
Vegemite? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-smells-terrible-and-tastes-like-it-smells/580129/44 "2016-01-06T04:21:27Z")
> [@Cub\_Mistress](#): > > Parmesan cheese often smells bad. Some people liken it to vomit or stinky feet. It’s not just me who thinks it smells like vomit, then? I don’t like how it tastes, either, though. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-smells-terrible-and-tastes-like-it-smells/580129/45 "2016-01-06T04:38:55Z")
> [@Sangahyando](#): > > As witness: [Casu martzu - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu) So, you’re literally eating shit! Guess you also do that when you eat non-deveined shrimp. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-smells-terrible-and-tastes-like-it-smells/580129/46 "2016-01-06T04:51:16Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Kimchi often smells (to me anyway) like a gas leak, but it tastes awesome. I love the smell of kimchi. It tastes just as delicious MHO. Never had Marmite or Vegemite. ---
**Author:** ![botsgotme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@botsgotme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/botsgotme)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2016, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-smells-terrible-and-tastes-like-it-smells/580129/47 "2016-01-06T05:34:17Z")
No bad smells here, but my wife has a co-worker who is Vietnamese. He’s been telling her about how delicious banana flowers are…so one day, she bought a few and prepared them. A lot of work, and when you are done, you have something that looks (and tastes) like and old piece of sisal rope. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-smells-terrible-and-tastes-like-it-smells/580129.md?page=2)