Guy at the farmers market told me my kimchi smelled like a barn
It was a rainy Saturday about 2 months ago at the downtown market. This older fella walks up to my booth, sniffs the air, and goes "this smells like a wet barn in August." I laughed because he wasn't wrong about the funk, but he wouldn't even try a sample. I told him that's the good bacteria doing its job, but he just walked off shaking his head. Anyone else gotten weird reactions from people who don't get strong fermentation smells?