Once, my dog was really bugging me about it. I mean jumping up and down, barking, begging for it. So I let him lick the spoon after I had poured it out.
Liver and onions, coffee and red wine. When I was a young meat-eater, I would get tricked into trying liver and onions at least once a year because of the smell alone. I just couldn’t believe that something that smelled so wonderful tasted so rank!
You and Shayna posted exactly what I wanted to post, but didn’t feel like posting from my slow ass phone. I knew by the time I got to my pc, someone would have had posted it.
The only difference is, I actually started to love it all of a sudden, right when I was about 18, for some mysterious reason.
Then, I stopped eating meat all together about 6 months later, so that gave me about a 6 month window of actually liking liver and onions, which I am sure is 6 months longer than most folks.
Vanilla extract has already been mentioned, I know, but it reminds me of the day my father showed me as a young tyke that a touch of vanilla extract dropped onto a spoonful of brown sugar is absolutely delicious and is a rather close approximation for the flavor of cookie dough. It was important, however, to only enjoy this treat when mom wasn’t home.
I also second pipe tobacco. When I was little I had a great uncle who smoked a pipe. I would park myself on his lap and just breathe in the sweet aroma whenever he visited. It’s a wonder I didn’t develop childhood cancer.
Peanut butter cookies also smell much better than they taste. I love peanuts and peanut butter, so the smell of peanut butter cookies makes my mouth water, but I’ve never actually liked them.
Oh, and, from my youth, Play-Doh. It smelled so good! Why do they make it smell so good if they don’t want me to stick it in my mouth? Thankfully, I’ve never been allergic to wheat gluten.