Honestly, I have never been able to understand why people complain about it. It doesn’t smell anything special.
In the spirit of the OP but not to the letter: sumatriptan succinate tablets. They have no aroma, but the taste screams “you shouldn’t have eaten that” and lingers for hours. Then there’s the side effects. Still better than a migraine.
+1 on the durian. I got turned onto it when I lived in Indonesia. It tastes like heaven and smells like hell.
IMHO it smells almost exactly like diarrhea. Pretty tasty, though.
I loathe the vitamin B tablets in the brewer’s yeast base. Not only do they smell and taste terrible, you continue to smell and taste them for hours.
The smell of cleaning/cooking tripe probably is the worst thing I’d say. Can’t even describe what it smells like (just as “Satan’s asshole” might not have a paralleling smell). I’ve had it thinly sliced and mixed in with other ingredients in soups without knowing what they are. They have chewy texture and don’t have much of taste.
I guess no one here is willing to venture to non-food region… yet.
It just tastes like ass. Ugh.
I think I love you.
I’m sorry, I can’t eat anything that stinks. If it doesn’t pass the smell test, it doesn’t go in.
Not just about things you eat. I don’t “eat” my Valerian supplements, I just swallow them as quickly as possible.
Off the top of my head, I’ve had the following stinky foods:
fish sauce,
fermented crab and shrimp pastes,
thousand year old eggs,
durian,
natto,
assorted smelly cheeses.
Thinking back, the smelliest substances I have personally ingested would be durian – and don’t believe what people tell you about it “tasting like heaven”; it’s even worse than it smells – and pla ra, a fermented fish dish specific to northeastern Thailand. Both of them horrible substances.
These days, I would not be willing to ingest anything more smelly than particular types of cheese.
Once I ate a teaspoon of Liquid Smoke on a dare. A few drops dispersed in food gives that hearty, barbecued flavor, but straight from the bottle it smells like something you’d drain from the bottom of a stove. Everything else I ate for the next three days tasted like it had been smoked.
That sounds amazing-- smoked everything!!
Same here. What’s more, I really enjoy stinking tofu.
A friend of mine once said that eating durian is like eating pineapple standing in a urinal that hasn’t been cleaned during the last thirty years.
Chou doufu a.k.a. stinky tofu at a Taiwanese night market. It somehow manages to taste worse than it smells, so I couldn’t imagine ever finishing even a small serving. But I will accomplish this someday.
I’ve only had durian in bubble tea and ice cream form. The ice cream smell and taste was very mild and acceptable, while the bubble tea smelled horrible and tasted even worse. I had my mind set on finishing it, but only managed to drink 10% of the cup. I was carrying it around for the next hour or so, until I got home and dumped it (saving the bubbles, of course).