Smells that bother you

[donnashuggy]

The smell of fake tan tops the list for me.

What do you hate?

[j*oono]

I'm guilty of cooking Brussels sprouts and having my stinky dog in the house. It's true. When you are used to these smells they don't bother you but they are natural odours. Chemical sprays and cheap perfumes are different. They cause more severe reactions to people with asthma and respiratory disease.

[iapetus_rocks]

The smell  of cooking meat offends me. I'm not a vegetarian but I still hate the smell of burning dead animals.

[vicr3000]

iapetus

Funny you mentioned that. When I was reading page 1 of this I was thinking some don't like cooking flesh

and was thinking that exact thought.

[lloydslights]

Detest the smell of privet flowering.  Same with wattle.

The smell of a bucket with DX eucalyptus (childhood vom-box)

Smouldering wet fires, memories of school incinerator smell,

Rodent nests.

Vic, I wondered what the flesh of a fruit bat would be like.

DEB

[vicr3000]

lloyd

It's not often I flatly refuse to eat something but that was one time. I couldn't even be close to her as she ate it.,

the smell was revolting and I see a lot of animals in various states of decay so for me to be put off, must have

touched a certain part of something.

We were having a bit of a "bush tucker" meal so I then pulled a leg off a cooked turtle and tried that instead.

I thought it was "under done" but tasted OK.

Kangaroo meat

One smell I know a lot of people don't like for some reason is cooking Kangaroo meat. I will admit

it does smell a bit off when cooking, not sure why.

[lloydslights]

 I was thinking that the acid of their diet would "soften" the flesh.  But then I see the damage to paintwork that the Bat's waste  creates.

I wonder if you hadn't smelt the cooking of it, whether you would have tried it.

I remember viewing an "experiment' where blindfolded people smelt onion and were given an apple to bite.  The reactions!

DEB

[vicr3000]

Yes, almost certainly would have tried it.

I don't like bats because of the deseases they carry.

It's funny how our minds are pre conditioned to think certain things are better than others to eat.

Aboriginals love tongue, almost the favourite part of an animal to eat (Cow or Buffalo). They (well, my friend does) also like the small intestine and from cows, Tripe (cows stomach lining).

Yet most whites / westerners would go for the meat, eye fillets, back straps etc.

[lloydslights]

It's years and years since I ate the giblets of chooks, and pressed tongue and tripe with parsley sauce.  I liked them all. Thinking about it now though, they were cooked outdoors.

DEB

[harley_babes_hoard]

I remember my mother cooking Tripe once, it stunk the whole house out.

[vicr3000]

Re tripe
i didn't know this until I took the tripe out of the cow but when it comes out of the animal, the whole thing is black.

The "black" is a thin black membrane that covers the honey comb
and we "clean" it with a high pressure hose that takes it off and you end up with just the white honeycomb flesh.