Watching Andrew Zimmern of Bizarre Foods take a mouthful of durian, then spit it out gagging, made me decide to not try it.
After all, I’ve seen Andrew eat and relish the taste of freshly clotted blood, stir-fried bat with the hair still on it, sardinian maggot cheese, and herring guts.
Personally, I enjoy limburger, brick cheese, and stinky tofu.
+1 on sauerkraut. It smells bad but I eat it fairly often in the summer with bratwurst or Italian sausage.
My own cooking! 
Onions, garlic, cabbage and the like - the smell stays in the house for days and I hear complaints, but I cook that stuff early in the day and open the windows
Black currants. They smell like when a male cat marks, but they’re also ridiculously delicious.
It’s very conflicting.
I’ve watched Bourdain happily scoop out the edible parts of durian and chow down. He commented on the stank ass smell but IIRC he enjoys eating it.
I picked up a durian in the produce section the other day and explained what it was to a few of my friends. I then smelt it myself and loudly gagged… I was reminded of sewage.
Physically, it looks like some sort of medieval anti-horse tool of defence.
Stout
I love peanut butter toast, but only if I’m eating it. If someone else is eating peanut butter toast, the smell of it grosses me out.
Yes, but it tastes great and the smell isn’t that bad. People hear how bad it smells and won’t give a chance. Its not something I would eat every day, but whenever its on sale at the local Chinese markets here in southern California, my wife gets me one. (She’s Chinese and won’t eat it.)
I think Peyote is a great example.
The taste will be the worst thing you have ever eaten (by far!), but the special effects later are well worth it.
(Not that I would ever encourage anyone to try it!)
Well! I never.
I’m convinced that durian is one of those foods that some people simply can’t taste. When I lived in the Philippines and in Indonesia, I tried it and it wasn’t sweet tasting at all to me. My wife likes it okay and a colleague would buy half a dozen and eat it with relish. They described it as tasting like pudding, but not to me. I think for some people it doesn’t have the same taste, like how cilantro tastes like soap to some people.
Bingo! I think we have a winner!
Red Bull or Jagerrmeister by themselves. They have to be mixed.
But…but…you’re so delicious.
Roast cauliflower. I eat it despite it’s smell (while roasting) and it’s (unroasted) taste. Either are gagworthy, but once roasted it’s crunchy yumminess.
… and then I have to air out the house for a day, 'cause it smells like mercaptan and hydrogen sulfide. (or, as I like to call that smell, “work”.)
Hey! :eek:
Oh, um. Never mind.
I love salt and vinegar potato chips, but the smell of some of them will knock out a bull at twenty paces.
I also don’t know what’s so bad about the smell or taste of vagina. The only ones I encountered that smelled bad (I wasn’t going to taste them after that) resulted from infections. Either you’re making a poor joke or you’re letting yourself in for unnecessary grossness.
Don’t you mean risotto?
I think JitB’s Ultimate Cheeseburgers smell absolutely disgusting, but I do like them every so often. Understandably, that last point is debatable.
Trader Joe’s makes these awesome rice/bean/corn tortilla chips (named something like “identity crisis”) that my roommate swears smells like dog food. I disgree on that, but one of my suitemates at work makes some kind of tea or soup that smells exactly like Pedigree canned dog food.