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Durian
07-09-2011
Has anyone here tried it before? What did you think?!
Victoria Sponge
07-09-2011
It smells of shit/decaying meat.
Durian
07-09-2011
Originally Posted by Victoria Sponge:
“It smells of shit/decaying meat.”

Could you bring yourself to try it?!

I bought some of the Durian cake recently from my local supermarket and the smell actually made my Mrs cry!!!

Personally I love it!!
Durian
07-09-2011
This is what Jamie Oliver said about it

'Put in the simplest language possible, durian stinks. It stinks like nothing I have ever smelt before. It stinks enough to make you check your pants just to make sure that last fart you did was no more than mere gas. Whilst strolling the streets of Bangkok you may occasionally be overwhelmed by the stench from the city’s primitive sewage system. The only trouble is that the city’s sewage system is far from primitive and the smell is, in fact, coming from a near-by durian seller. It is illegal to take the fruit on public transport and you will struggle to find a hotel that permits it onto the premises. And everything you have heard about this spiky, deadly looking fruit is true.

Even wrapped tightly in impermeable plastic, the fetid stench is quite overwhelming. Imagine the smell of an open latrine after a starving army, plagued with dysentery, had been fed on onions, eggs, broccoli, cabbage and laxatives and you are in the right sort of Ball Park. It is a smell that gets into your nostrils and will not let go. It is quite, quite foul. But also bizarrely curious.

Before I passed out I felt it wise to pop some in my mouth just to see if the myths were true, namely it may smell like a dead sloth stuffed with garlic but don’t let that put you off because the taste is quite heavenly.


Until you actually taste it, it is hard to believe that this is the case. Taste and smell are so closely related that we often get the two confused: eat a piece of apple whilst holding a pear under your nose and you taste pear rather than apple. Surely with the two senses so close, there can’t be that much discrepancy between the full on nasal assault and the flavour of durian?

But anyone who has tried it knows that this is the case. Durian is delicious in a way that renders you quite speechless. It causes your eyes to widen in utter surprise, it dances across the tastebuds and tickles parts of your mouth in a way I have never experienced before. It is soft and creamy, custardy and sweet. Sure, there is the faintest taste of onion but that is only a mere flutter in the background – as if the smell and taste are only the most distantly related cousins. There is a delicate cheesiness to both the flavour and texture, which in my book is no bad thing. And once you have tasted it, the smell really isn’t that bad'

http://www.jamieoliver.com/bloggers/...c.php?id=33857'
Baboo Yagu
07-09-2011
I've smelled it and came to the conclusion that being trapped in a box by a cockney nutjob is a far better experience.
Victoria Sponge
07-09-2011
Originally Posted by Durian:
“Could you bring yourself to try it?!

I bought some of the Durian cake recently from my local supermarket and the smell actually made my Mrs cry!!!

Personally I love it!!”

My mum prepared and ate in in front of me in 1989 on holiday, she insisted it tasted wonderful. But no, there was no way I was gonna try it!
Durian
07-09-2011
Originally Posted by Victoria Sponge:
“My mum prepared and ate in in front of me in 1989 on holiday, she insisted it tasted wonderful. But no, there was no way I was gonna try it!”

I love watching Westerners try and eat the fruit for the first time! So funny.

When my family came to visit from Singapore last, their reaction to strong cheese such as Stilton or Shropshire blue was exactly the same. They found the smell repulsive!!
MAW
07-09-2011
Originally Posted by Durian:
“ I love watching Westerners try and eat the fruit for the first time! So funny.

When my family came to visit from Singapore last, their reaction to strong cheese such as Stilton or Shropshire blue was exactly the same. They found the smell repulsive!!”

My lads had a durian fight in my only encounter with it. I was told their mess stank of it for days afterwards, so much so that the matelots wouldn't eat with them Marines are a disgusting lot No, I couldn't bring myself to eat it, and I've eaten snake, seabirds and sheeps bollocks. I did wonder whatever possessed you to select that as your user name.
Henderson
07-09-2011
Originally Posted by Victoria Sponge:
“It smells of shit/decaying meat.”

But what about the fruit?
valkay
07-09-2011
When I tried to buy some in Thailand they refused to sell it to me.
Victoria Sponge
07-09-2011
Originally Posted by Durian:
“ I love watching Westerners try and eat the fruit for the first time! So funny.

When my family came to visit from Singapore last, their reaction to strong cheese such as Stilton or Shropshire blue was exactly the same. They found the smell repulsive!!”

I can't see how anyone, from East or West could go near the thing, on account of how it smells! I'm no Westerner, and I do eat most things but I just couldn't face that! My parents are the sort of people who would actually eat anything though.
MAW
07-09-2011
Originally Posted by valkay:
“When I tried to buy some in Thailand they refused to sell it to me.”

You have to steal it from the tree
Victoria Sponge
07-09-2011
Originally Posted by valkay:
“When I tried to buy some in Thailand they refused to sell it to me.”

Probably because they actually cared about you.
Victoria Sponge
07-09-2011
Imagine being in a food fight with durian ewwwww!
MAW
07-09-2011
Originally Posted by Victoria Sponge:
“Imagine being in a food fight with durian ewwwww!”

See above. I hid. Conduct unbecoming of an officer was my excuse
mysticalan
07-09-2011
Sounds hideous I can't imagine eating something that smells worse going in than it does coming out.
whackyracer
07-09-2011
Originally Posted by mysticalan:
“Sounds hideous I can't imagine eating something that smells worse going in than it does coming out.”

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Durian
07-09-2011
Originally Posted by Victoria Sponge:
“Imagine being in a food fight with durian ewwwww!”

I'd stand there with my mouth open trying to eat the fruit!!!
Victoria Sponge
07-09-2011
Originally Posted by Durian:
“I'd stand there with my mouth open trying to eat the fruit!!!”

Lol!!
Durian
07-09-2011
As a kid I HATED it, I couldn't even be in the same room as it, but when I was about 15 I tried it again and it was amazing!!! I took some Durian cake to a bbq earlier this year, was so funny watching drunk people try and smell it.....I am so mean lol. A couple of guys actually loved it though. I have only ever seen it for sale once in a large supermarket in B'ham and it cost £24 a lb, considering most of thats seed and skin....thats a bloody expensive fruit!!!
Durian
08-09-2011
Article on Durian from the BBC today http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14817043
Lainiomonkio
08-09-2011
I love durian! I grew up eating it and absolutely love it. Love it in ABC Ice Kacang as well! There's nothing like stopping by the side of the road in Malaysia and buying it fresh from a durian seller. I like the bitter variety over the sweet. Yummers!
Tech Lover
08-09-2011
My first try was a durian pancake and I disgorged after one bite. No more try since then.
Durian
11-09-2011
Originally Posted by Lainiomonkio:
“I love durian! I grew up eating it and absolutely love it. Love it in ABC Ice Kacang as well! There's nothing like stopping by the side of the road in Malaysia and buying it fresh from a durian seller. I like the bitter variety over the sweet. Yummers!”

WooHoo my first fellow Durian lover!! I love my ice Kacang too

Where are you from?
degsyhufc
11-09-2011
Originally Posted by Durian:
“This is what Jamie Oliver said about it


http://www.jamieoliver.com/bloggers/...c.php?id=33857'”

Oliver did not say that about it. That's obvious if you read it. Even more obvious if you look up the blog author.
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