What are your least favourite food smells?

[OneUmberJoker]

Dog food

Beige. When my daughter cooks it in the air fryer. Stinks out the whole house.

Fried street food.

Well yeah any meat based animal food would obviously be repulsive but no human likes the smell of pedigree chum surely?!

I hate the smell of plain lamb with too much fat on it cooking. Like it smells like old rancid dishcloths. Just a really dirty smell. I only like lamb when it's been cooked with lots of spices and flavourings.

I used to live near a biscuit factory and that was amazing.

Semolina and custard from school dinners was appalling smelling, and worse tasting. In fact all the smells of 80s school dinners!

Egg

Any "meaty" smells - but then I'm a veggie !

Steak and kidney pudding. All I remember is this as a school lunch and the entire campus smelt like a public toilet.

Lamb. Cheapo mince. (DH buys posh mince and it doesn't smell like that.)

Roast lamb

Curry, but only when it has cumin in. Cumin smells like BO to me unfortunately!
Fish generally, particularly kippers.
The smell of baked beans left in a pan turns my stomach.
The smell of a packet of ham... now I cook my own
Never smelt kidney or liver cooking and now I don't want to!

Mushrooms (also hate eating them)
Raw chicken (but raw beef smells so good?!!), absolutely awful

But I have no issue with durian, raw fishy smells, cabbagey things, fermentations etc.

Fried donuts from a food truck. See also churros

I don't know of a bush that smells like sperm, but lamb's lettuce does.

And boxwood smells like cat pee.

Egg, but only when the yolk and white aren't mixed together. Scrambled egg and omelette is fine. But boiled, fried, poached - so unpleasant.

The worst food smell I've ever encountered was tripe. It smelled like simmering shit, that's the only way I can describe it.

Curry. Especially stale curry smell.

Stock fish.
It smells like I imagine an Egyptian mummy would. Sulfur and rotting ammonia.
Then they boil/poach/stew it and it stinks the place out.
DH thinks it’s a delicacy…

Lamb or meat fat in general. Deep fat fried anything, hate the way oil makes the house smell and sticks around, whether it’s clean or not.

some bloke at work brings fish for his lunch everyday. Absolutely stinks the entire staff room and seeps into the office. A colleague was retching at it the other day!

Haggis or just offal in general
Eels

Prawns. DP eats them a lot as he is pescatarian and frozen prawns are easy to add. There are loads of food smells I don’t like, but the stench of prawns is far and away the worst.

I was cooking bacon for DS1, and DS2 commented that the house smelled of mens toilets. And suddenly I could smell what he was smelling and couldn’t unsmell it🤣

Truffle Oil.

I have an incredibly strong visceral response to it-
I can not bear to have anyone sitting near me eating it. I hope it goes out of fashion the way of the sun dried tomato.

Cinnamon
spiced apple
pumpkin

I don't like truffle oil either. Roast lamb smells like sheep but cooked.

Raw onion.

Dh insists on eating it with what seems like absolutely fucking everything. Except he’s the only one who eats it, so he’ll chop a whole onion just to have a small piece. And then just leave it there on the side all day or put it on a plate in the fridge because he’s sure one of us will suddenly need to eat some later in the day.

It seeps into everything, the butter, a cake in the fridge, my leftovers for lunch, so everything smells and tastes of onion.

@Carandache18 I’im with you on the tripe and onions
when I was young my DM used to blanch the tripe, it was revolting I would go out but DDad loved it🤮

Someone gave me a durian sweet a few months ago, it tasted of (how I imagine) sweaty armpits, it was the most repulsive thing ever