How can something that smells bad taste good?!
Answers: As you all probably know, the sense of smell and the sense of taste are connected to one another. If something smells really bad, it's usually not good to eat. Also, if you don't have a sense of smell, you probably can't taste much, either. That being said, though, there are some foods that are considered stinky and yet still appeal to some people. For example, Parmesan cheese smells like feet, yet it's great on pasta. And Limburger cheese is supposed to smell much worse, yet some people think it tastes good. How can something that smells bad taste good?
Probably because your sense of taste is only effected by your sense of smell by about 45%. Besides, once the food is in the mouth (if you can get past the stinkiness of it), it usually tastes totally different.
Take wine for example. You smell one thing, but taste something entirely different. This is because while the two senses are bound, they're are not entirely dependent upon one another.
A rose smells wonderful, but frankly rose petals taste FUNKY.
And then there's garlic.
Those senses are connected, but not exclusive.
Perhaps our others senses try to interject, jealous at being excluded, and cause us to analyse something, i.e. blue cheese LOOKING mouldy: even though it tastes divine.
Well I don't think parmesan smells like feet. I like the smell of it. Sometimes feet smell like cheese, but that's a separate issue. Personally I don't think I could eat something that smelled bad to me.
The sensation of "taste" is an amalgam of all the aroma receptors and taste buds. Just smelling something involves only the aroma receptors so the sensation might be out of balance without the sweet, sour, salt, bitter, and last - but not least - newly identified umami tastes. The umami taste which translates from the japanese as deliciousness is the complex taste that is developed in foods as they cook, anchovies, fish sauces, and aged cheeses.
Of course, the Darwinian answer is that we have evolved to like such things - probably because people who liked them had a wider choice of foods.