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DURIAN which to the uninitiated human smells like week old unwashed dibussy (All sexual parts) wrapped in gorgonzola, squeezed through the toes of a hobo and kept in a jar of diarrhea farts for 6 days.
catbyte
(34,578 posts)Actual sign:
Walleye
(31,207 posts)dchill
(38,675 posts)That oughta tell you something.
Laffy Kat
(16,402 posts)Ocelot II
(116,106 posts)you'd been French-kissing your dead grandmother. Vomit-flavored custard is another description I've heard.
Warpy
(111,529 posts)They sell it in the international grocery here but I've never been curious enough to buy one. For one thing, they're enormous.
MLAA
(17,384 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,548 posts)Honestly, the rind smelled better than the "edible" part of the fruit, and I can't even describe the taste. It was pretty horrible. 😝
2naSalit
(87,090 posts)Goodhuskies seal of disapproval!
EYESORE 9001
(26,060 posts)If you can get past the smell/taste, youve got superpowers far in excess of mine.
🤮
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,806 posts)Wild blueberry
(6,688 posts)Historic NY
(37,469 posts)Hamlette
(15,415 posts)erronis
(15,524 posts)I've tried it - not too bad once you get past the odor. But then, why?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian
Quixote1818
(29,065 posts)nuxvomica
(12,487 posts)Obeying the impulse to cover it with litter/bury it.
electric_blue68
(15,055 posts)it was on the cover of an Nat'l Geo back in the '70s...
You're not allowed to bring it into hotels or on airplanes
Japanese tourists heading back to Japan from, say,
Malaysia have been booted off planes (with it in a suitcase wrapped in cellophane, newspaper etc) by special Durian hunting dogs. Also booted from hotels.
It was described as eating the most wonderful smelling desert in a rotting garbage heap.
Anyway I was becoming friends with an acquaintance in
late '70s. She told me at one time she lived in Malaysia. A light bulb went off. I said - do you know about The Durian?
She got a dreamy look in her eyes;
said "Ah...the Durian!.".. She was also probably totally surprised that someone she'd only hung out w a few times briefly bc I was doing sine commercial artwork for her husband, would know such an obscure thing in this part if the world!
On my way their to their apt I sprained my ankle and after her husband helped me up the 3 flights of stairs...
I was in their house for 3 hours with an ice pack off & on!
That's how we got to becime friends.
And we still 🙂 are (tho a long break nearly 20 yrs '99-'20) 'through mailing mishaps, and a an unexpected reunion in '21! ) !
Not Heidi
(1,361 posts)electric_blue68
(15,055 posts)Not Heidi
(1,361 posts)Rhiannon12866
(207,406 posts)EndlessWire
(6,612 posts)was the tongue at the end, lolling out like the dog was about to die. The cats were great, with a lot of them about to vomit, which cats are good at. After seeing the cats, I think the dog had nausea, too.
I have never heard of this fruit. TY for the education!
Not Heidi
(1,361 posts)DOG!
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