[MamaB]

I did not say I liked the smell but we all loved my mom’s fried cabbage and I love stuffed cabbage leaves. I grew up on a farm and learned to like everything we grew. I never could stand the smell/taste of liver and onions, though. Yucky!

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

MamaB :" I never could stand the smell/taste of liver and onions, though. Yucky"

Me either ! Worse than yucky !
I would actually start dry wretching while it was cooking !
My grandma would tell me to go next door and see what my aunt and great-garandma were having: mostly it was pork and saurerkraut (AKA: fermented cabbages).
IT taste better, and smelled better, especially when served with applesauce.

[SanchoP]

I should have specified boiled cabbage. The smell reminds me of school cafeterias. Strangely,I do not associate the smell with mess halls.