Tastes better than it smells

[Super Sonic]

The thread for things that taste better than they smell
Surstromming and durian fruit are obvious contenders, but I've never had them so I'm gonna say ...
'Beef' in black bean sauce.
Smelled like cows armpits. Tasted like beef stew but a bit more Chinesey.

[HTP99]

I suspect someone will say canned tuna, I just cannot get past the smell myself!!

[Super Sonic]

HTP99 said:

I suspect someone will say canned tuna, I just cannot get past the smell myself!!

It's pretty tasteless tbf, so if you can't stand the smell I'd say it qualifies!

[LunarOne]

HTP99 said:

I suspect someone will say canned tuna, I just cannot get past the smell myself!!

I love fish and seafood in most forms including raw or seared tuna, but I'd be very happy to never eat canned tuna ever again. It tastes of nothing at all but has a pretty horrible texture. No thank you!

[otolith]

Shrimp paste or fish sauce.

[rallye101]

this badboy, only cheese on the cheeseboard with its own muslin cover as flies were divebombing it!

[Super Sonic]

otolith said:

Shrimp paste or fish sauce.

Haven't had that since I was a small boy!

[LunarOne]

Super Sonic said:

otolith said:

Shrimp paste or fish sauce.

Haven't had that since I was a small boy!

You have if you've had any Thai food whatsoever. They put fish sauce in everything!

[otolith]

LunarOne said:

You have if you've had any Thai food whatsoever. They put fish sauce in everything!

And the shrimp paste.

[bigpriest]

Any seafood - despite aficionados claiming it "smells of the sea" it actually smells like a fishy sewer. Tastes nice though.

[vaud]

Surstromming
Fish sauce
Stinking bishop cheese

[BananaFama]

Parmesan ,smells awful on your pasta but tastes nomelicious .

[otolith]

vaud said:

Stinking bishop cheese

Once spent Christmas up in Scotland in a little cottage with another couple. My mate's dad had given him a whole stinking bishop to take up, and all the way up from Swindon he kept opening the bag and wafting it

Did taste good though.

[AlexC1981]

Boiled eggs.

[Fiestapop11]

rallye101 said:

this badboy, only cheese on the cheeseboard with its own muslin cover as flies were divebombing it!

Yep , if you are down wind it will take your eyebrows off at 30 paces..

Tastes great of course.

Edited by Fiestapop11 on Monday 13th March 20:43

[Super Sonic]

LunarOne said:

Super Sonic said:

otolith said:

Shrimp paste or fish sauce.

Haven't had that since I was a small boy!

You have if you've had any Thai food whatsoever. They put fish sauce in everything!

Sorry I meant shrimp paste lol.

[otolith]

Super Sonic said:

Sorry I meant shrimp paste lol.

Ah, you're thinking this stuff?



I meant this stuff

[pequod]

Durian?

Once past the smell, it is delicious, albeit not to my taste.

[Super Sonic]

otolith said:

Ah, you're thinking this stuff?



I meant this stuff

Yeah the top one.
Although one time I was having a curry at my friend's house, and they had this iirc 'prawn pickle', it was crazy hot!, any idea what that was?

[otolith]

Super Sonic said:

Yeah the top one.
Although one time I was having a curry at my friend's house, and they had this iirc 'prawn pickle', it was crazy hot!, any idea what that was?

Might be something like this?



We've got a jar in the fridge, it's bloody good!