I’m sitting here smelling the wafts of dinner coming to me. I smell fresh cucumber, home grown tomatoes, and gosh they smell wonderful!
But I hate eating both…how come they smell so great, but I can’t actually eat them?
most non instant “flavored” coffee for me
it smells great while brewing… tastes like horse piss …. my aunt received a"holiday" flavored gift set… she donated to a shelter…
Any coffee for me. Coffee beans, fresh ground coffee, most of the time brewing coffee… all smells I like. Can’t drink the stuff and I hate coffee flavored anything.
I kinda like the smell of naphtaline. And cedar.
If you want to go with non-food items I love the smell of hot asphalt as it’s being poured. Not going to eat it
True for my wife and myself as well. Coffee brewing smells great (unless its old coffee in a long-unwashed urn), but it tastes like – well --coffee.
I’ve never been a smoker – too aware of the health risks. and, besides, the smoke gives me a headache. But I always though pipe smoke smelled good, and that if I had to smoke something, I’d go with a pipe. Then I got a stage part as a pipe-smoker, and figured that this was a chance to try it out. I couldn’t believe how awful the pipe tasted when I drew on it – hot, acrid, burning. Not at all the way it smelled. I let the pipe smoulder in my mouth during the play, but never actually smoked it. And haven’t touched one since.
Same for me as far as actual coffee. However, coffee flavored stuff-candy, ice cream, mocha, etc is all good.
I worked at Arby’s decades ago and a Jamocha shake tops the list.
Walking by the fresh-ground smell of a coffee shop or the coffee & tea aisle at the supermarket is pleasant, but the stuff always tastes like hot dishwater to me. I don’t like coffee-flavored stuff either.
I love the sweet, slightly cloying smell of a distillery, but I can’t stand the taste of whiskey. I’ve been on several distillery tours in Scotland and Ireland just for the smell (and the gift shop), but I always give my free samples to somebody else on the tour who will be happy to have them, and just keep the little souvenir glasses once they’ve been emptied.
Sorry, thread title threw me off…I have a dirty, dirty mind!
^ This is me, also.
Not exactly “eat” - I love the smell of fresh Marijuana. Can’t smoke it or eat it or use it in any way, it sends my anxiety levels way into the red. But the plant smells great.
Green bell peppers roasting in an oven. Like with stuffed peppers. Smells awesome, but I don’t want to eat the peppers. Same thing with chili rellenos and stuffed jalapenos. (I love hot peppers, but prefer them diced finely.)
Another vote for coffee. I’ve tried to actually drink it several times but could not make it through one small cup.
Crawfish boil. Son-of-a-wrek does s boil every now and then. It smells great but I just cannot eat the little mudbugs. Or the corn and potatoes that are cooked in the same pot.
Coffee looks lovely, smells wonderful and makes me feel really good.
But it tastes like shit. Why do you think people put so much in it that changes the taste?
Annie-Xmas, dedicated coffee addict regardless
Crab in the shell.
not sure this counts - I have previously loved the smell of italian sausage, peppers and onions grilling away on a flat top, but hate peppers so I don’t eat it … and since chemo, it is the one smell that will make me reflexively vomit pretty much instantly [I had to change the way I was driving to the infusion place because the little diner started cooking it right at the time I needed to be going for infusion. *sigh* I seriusly doubt I will ever be able to tolerate the smell again, it took better than 10 year before I could tolerate the smell of cooking liver and onions [still not fond of the smell of liver and onions cooking, but it doesnt; make me want to vomit any more]
Same for me (probably a lot of others too). A few years back I decided I was going to learn to like coffee. Tried and tried and tried. Never could gag more than a sip of it back and it made my mouth feel funny. Then a few months after that I tried one of those Bai drinks. They’re made from the juice of the cherry that the coffee beans are inside of. The drinks taste fine, just like any other juice, no coffee flavor whatsoever, but they gave my mouth that same odd feeling. I’m guessing I have a slight allergy to coffee and figured I can officially give up (at almost 40 years old) wanting to like coffee.
The only time I tried liver was at a friends ranch- she fried it up with onions and the smell was amazing. Tasted like …liver. Never again.
I can’t stand the flavor and, more critically, the texture of popcorn. A fresh batch of popcorn smells wonderful but even when topped with real dairy butter and just the right amount of salt, I can’t eat more than a handful.