Foods whose smell you enjoy but could not possibly eat.

1. Bananas

2.3.4 and all numbers to infinity. Bananas. 

I’ve eaten fermented shark in Iceland. 
 

However, I cannot physically bring myself to eat a banana. It is impossible. Kids didn’t believe me so tried again last year in front of them to much retching and hilarity. 

I enjoy the smell of creosote, but that’s not really a food.

The only real one I can think of is those insects and worms fried in delicious spice combinations. Smells great but still no thank you.

Bentines is your issue with banana their complete lack of texture? Or the taste? I don’t think I’d mind the taste if I could bear to entertain the idea of eating one. Euuuch 

Taste, texture, all of it. Maybe some of us are just programmed not to see it as food. I’d no sooner eat a twig or a conifer cone. 
 

Remember being really poorly as a 4 year old and being given banana flavoured antibiotics. They came straight back up. Perhaps it’s psychological…

Great recall on the banana flavoured medication, which is an important contribution to this thread.

I had no issue with it at all either, nor tellingly with the banana flavoured candy available when I was a kid. They also had candy shrimps made I suspect by the same confectioner, which I craved. The candy flavoured banana was almost as good.

I have never tried it but wouldn't have too many palpatations about desicated banana, provided saliva didn't restore it to its slimy gloopy natural state.