# Things you don't eat/drink because of it's taste/smell. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 6, 2008, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-eat-drink-because-of-its-taste-smell/471430 "2008-11-06T09:09:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![EpicNonsense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@EpicNonsense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EpicNonsense)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-eat-drink-because-of-its-taste-smell/471430/1 "2008-11-06T09:09:01Z")
What foods and drinks do you NOT eat simply because of it’s TASTE or SMELL? I have never eaten tuna. The ground-up type that usually comes in a can. I don’t like the smell, period. The scent knocks me off my feet. I will eat Ahi Poke’ which is prepared more like raw fish with some Soy Sauce and/or peppers. I avoid all raw fish besides Ahi Poke’. I’ve tried a couple of them but the taste is too much for me. Dark chocolates. Too sweet. Black coffee. I just can’t do it!.. I’m a wimp. The taste is too strong. I’ll think of more… ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-eat-drink-because-of-its-taste-smell/471430/2 "2008-11-06T12:19:22Z")
There is an obvious answer. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-eat-drink-because-of-its-taste-smell/471430/3 "2008-11-06T12:23:17Z")
Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![nevermore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a587f6/32.png) [@nevermore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevermore)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-eat-drink-because-of-its-taste-smell/471430/4 "2008-11-06T12:33:23Z")
Deviled eggs. They smell remarkably like colon to me. I will never understand why anyone would want to put one into their mouth. ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-eat-drink-because-of-its-taste-smell/471430/5 "2008-11-06T13:01:12Z")
um…everything? ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-eat-drink-because-of-its-taste-smell/471430/6 "2008-11-06T13:08:52Z")
Liver and Onions. Hated 'em as a kid and gave 'em a try as an adult…no way! Limburgher Cheese. Tried if for the first time a couple of months ago. Tastes and smells like stinky feet! ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-eat-drink-because-of-its-taste-smell/471430/7 "2008-11-06T13:09:55Z")
Liver and Onions. Hated 'em as a kid and gave 'em a try as an adult…no way! Limburgher (sp?) Cheese. Tried if for the first time a couple of months ago. Tastes and smells like stinky feet! ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-eat-drink-because-of-its-taste-smell/471430/8 "2008-11-06T13:35:17Z")
Possum Tuna Any “prepared” dish that you microwave, especially the low-cal pastas (like the Marachina (sp) brand). To me, they smell like burnt preservatives. ---
**Author:** ![Hi\_Neighbor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hi_neighbor/32/494_2.png) [@Hi\_Neighbor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hi_Neighbor)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-eat-drink-because-of-its-taste-smell/471430/9 "2008-11-06T13:42:08Z")
Bleu cheese ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-eat-drink-because-of-its-taste-smell/471430/10 "2008-11-06T13:50:54Z")
Capers. Just hate the things. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-eat-drink-because-of-its-taste-smell/471430/11 "2008-11-06T13:54:10Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > There is an obvious answer. But tuna’s already been mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-eat-drink-because-of-its-taste-smell/471430/12 "2008-11-06T14:05:14Z")
I’m with **singular1**. I don’t eat the things I don’t eat because I either don’t like their taste or smell or both. That said, for years I refused to even taste braunschweiger liver sausage because of the smell. Finally, my husband persuaded me to hold my breath and try it. Now I love the stuff and the smell doesn’t bother me at all. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-eat-drink-because-of-its-taste-smell/471430/13 "2008-11-06T14:30:31Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > But tuna’s already been mentioned. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-eat-drink-because-of-its-taste-smell/471430/14 "2008-11-06T14:35:20Z")
Funny. I have no sense of smell and I like the taste of most stuff. All my disliked foods are disliked because either I don’t like the way they look (ketchup) or hate the texture (water chestnuts, okra). ---
**Author:** ![G1llyB4tes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@G1llyB4tes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G1llyB4tes)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-eat-drink-because-of-its-taste-smell/471430/15 "2008-11-06T14:50:32Z")
I love sushi, but I have never been able to eat most cooked fish. I have always puzzled over what it is about the ‘fishy’ flavour that makes me gag. There is something that just immediately signals my stomach to retch as soon as that taste/smell hits my senses. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-eat-drink-because-of-its-taste-smell/471430/16 "2008-11-06T16:04:50Z")
To me, canteloupe smells exactly like garbage. But that’s not the reason I don’t eat it. I don’t eat it because I don’t like the taste. I eat other things that smell like garbage, like wonderful stinky cheeses, because I like the taste. ---
**Author:** ![anu-la1979](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@anu-la1979](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anu-la1979)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-eat-drink-because-of-its-taste-smell/471430/17 "2008-11-06T16:05:51Z")
Foie Gras/pate. I went out to an upscale tapasy restaurant recently where it came as part of the appetizer sampler. I put just the tiniest smidge on my piece of toasted bread and tried it (for the first time…I just had general grossness objections to organ meats) and it was honestly one of the worst flavours I’d tasted in my life. I had to discreetly take a napkin out of my purse and spit it out, it was that bad. Then I had to drink several glasses of water. I am not very adventurous when it comes to meat, however-part of which is that I come from a strictly pescatarian/vegetarian culture. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-eat-drink-because-of-its-taste-smell/471430/18 "2008-11-06T16:09:28Z")
I must be missing something. Why _else_ would you not eat something, except for its taste or smell? I suppose there are a few foods I avoid because their texture bothers me or they look funny, but a list of things I don’t eat because of their taste or smell is pretty much a list of all of the things I don’t eat. ---
**Author:** ![Minnie\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Minnie\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minnie_Luna)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-eat-drink-because-of-its-taste-smell/471430/19 "2008-11-06T16:09:44Z")
Scarey hit the nail on the head for me, the smell of capers makes me gag. I also dislike dishes with a lot of basil in them, like pesto. If the overwhelming smell of the dish is basil, I will not eat it. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-eat-drink-because-of-its-taste-smell/471430/20 "2008-11-06T16:19:34Z")
Cooked, canned spinach. Ditto for beets. Both smell like sewage. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-eat-drink-because-of-its-taste-smell/471430.md?page=2)