Someone Asked, "What Smells Better Than It Tastes?" And Here Are The 48 Most Spot-On Replies

It's natural to feel a little put off or lose one's appetite when the food we are presented with doesn't smell particularly appealing or fresh. Although not as finicky, our ancestors did the same and used smell to determine whether food was safe and suitable for consumption. If it doesn't smell rotten—then it's good to go. No rocket science here.

The smell and look of food helps us decide what's safe to put in our mouths and what's not. However, food is not the only area where scent matters. And as we've come to realize, some in more brutal ways than others, not all that smells good tastes accordingly. And many of the good-smelling things are not even edible. Many have heard the riddle asking what tastes better than it smells (FYI, the answer is tongue), but what about things that smell good but taste bad? That's a different spin on the riddle! However, it's not so much of a mystery when you realize how many things that smell nice taste rather awful. In fact, they shouldn't be put in one's mouth at all. Interested in what smells better than it tastes, user Muntszy of the AskReddit community asked fellow Redditors to name more things that smell good but taste—not so. Unsurprisingly, many of the things people listed were not supposed to be eaten (at least not by humans). 

Below, we've compiled some of the most spot-on or simply funny replies people left in the thread. As always, we invite you to upvote the entries you liked or can agree with. Also, do you know of more things that smell better than they taste which haven't been mentioned? If so, let us know in the comments!