Inspired by the thread * Things you don’t eat/drink because of it’s taste/smell.* which seems to have the most obvious answer in history - we don’t eat things that taste or smell bad.
However there are a few cheeses that smell pretty bad but are in fact very tasty, particularly blue cheeses. And some dishes with coriander smell like they won’t taste good but they do.
Any other things?
I grew up on sauerkraut and weiners for lunch. Now when I heat up some sauerkraut for a Reuben sandwich, my wife will leave the house because of the smell.
I swear, this isn’t why I still eat it.
Cabbage, and related plants. They are as delicious as they are stinky.
Cheerios smell like urine to me. I have no problem eating them, but if someone else is eating them near me, it sort of grosses me out.
Echoing the blue cheese sentiment. Gorgonzola and Double Gloucester with Stilton are quite smelly, but really tasty.
Papaya smells like vomit to me, but I do like papaya salad.
A friend of mine makes amazing lamb stew. Every time I eat it, I first smell it and think, “wait, why am I putting this is my mouth?” But then I take a bite and remember - because it tastes nothing like it smells.
I haven’t eaten it in a long time but gefilte fish aint exactly pretty. I am ,bar none, the pickiest person I know food wise and I could still eat it.
I love peanut butter but can’t stand the smell if someone else is eating it. I also like scrambled eggs but the smell of them cooking is quite nauseating to me.
I love drinkable yogurt, especially the raspberry kind. But in a high concentration, like inside the bottle itself, the raspberry drinkable yogurt smells a lot like sour cream, which I can’t stand. But it tastes great. I just avoid sticking my nose in the bottle and inhaling.
kim chee.
Salted fish.
For me it is macaroni. I don’t like the taste or smell of it.
ditto.
The smell of cooking eggs might as well be rotten eggs to my nose. Makes me sick to my stomach. But I still like scrambled eggs and omlettes.
You like neither, yet you eat it?
Yep. I love Cheerios, but I cant be in the same room with someone else who’s eating them.
There’s a Panamanian dish my SO makes that looks and smells like vomit (to me) called Chicheme (sp?). I don’t know if it tastes good because I leave the house when she cooks it, but she loves it.
I don’t have any sense of smell, but I did try Limburger cheese because of its reputation. I figured, if it stinks and people still eat it, it must taste pretty good. It was okay.
I drink wine despite its taste. 
Oh. Yeah. Pretty much anything alcoholic.
As a kid, I would NEVER eat mustard, because I absolutely hated the smell – it made me want to gag. Finally, my dad dared me to try it (when I was about, oh, eight maybe?) and I found out that I loved mustard. (Honey mustard is definitely one of the tastiest things on the planet!)
Turkey bacon smells nasty when you cook it, but it’s pretty tasty – and not as greasy as regular bacon. (Do they make beef bacon? Just curious. Otherwise, would turkey bacon be kosher?)
Durian is supposed to have a pretty wretched stench but lots of people eat it anyway. I’ve never even seen one in real life so I don’t know if I’d be brave enough to ignore the smell and give it a taste.
Yup. My girlfriend likes macaroni, so when she cooks it for us I eat it. She knows I don’t like it. I just smother it in ketchup and eat the macaroni with a smile.
Vagina.
Mango. It smells like something rotten to me, but it tastes fantastic (as long as I don’t inhale).
