re: Do you have any weird smell associations?

There is the this Korean restaurant downtown near where I work. It is very popular and the food is pretty good. They have this one spicy chicken dish that has become my favorite However when co-workers get that same dish, from a distance it smells just like singed hair. I know, pretty disgusting, right? Hard to explain but it tastes far better than it smells and up close it doesn't smell like that, but now that I know how it smells to others around me I don't get that dish and eat it at work anymore.