Durian Fruit

A colleague has just come back from Singapore with a bag of Durian flavoured boiled sweets and dared me to try one. Unforunately I did. Imagine if someone ate a jar of rotten pickled onions, let them ferment in their gut for a few days then farted in your mouth. It's like that. But worse. Nearly an hour later every time I swallow I feel like i might vomit. Comfortably the worst thing I have ever tasted.

Anyone else tried it?

 

Ate it fresh in Thailand. Thought it tasted ok. Nothing special but definitely edible. However the smell is something else. My brother in law left a tiny bit in under his bed in the hotel, and we genuinely thought that either there was a very serious problem with the drainage or a dead animal in the room.

 

If you've smelled a durian even once, you probably remember it. Even with the husk intact, the notorious Asian fruit has such a potent stench that it's banned on the Singapore Rapid Mass Transit. Food writer Richard Sterling has written “its odor is best described as…turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock.

Good prezzy for the M-i-L.

 

Tried it in Malaysia. Never again. The missus brought back some durian fruit chocolates for her delightful office colleagues. They all got eaten mind you!

It's still probably more edible than the pies at Oakwell mind you!

 

yes. many offices ban it for its smell. it looks nice as a desert and if you manage to get it from the dish to your mouth without the smell putting you off then you have done well. Its a well loved fruit in Singapore and S.Asia but I cant take to it personally.

 

You can buy it from one of the Chinese supermarkets at The Moor in Sheffield. £13 a kilo though. I've had it before. Although I've had a lot of stuff that most westerners would turn their nose up at like chicken feet & sea cucumber.

 

I always wondered what the smell was from Bella Vista rendering plant above Penistone. Could be mekkin boiled spice.

 

Mega popular in Malaysia where I work some times. They love it there and it’s pretty expensive

Like 15 quid for two whole pieces of fruit

 

I lived and worked in the Far East for eight years, they adore Durian fruit. The pong is hideous but they taste quite nice.

 

Durian Durian...that band stunk.

 

One of those we are chasing from Norwich.

 

I think I'll give this a miss by the sounds of it.

 

Ugly Fruit. Very tough Thai translation. As John says edible fresh but nowt to write home about.

 

Just got rid of the taste.

 

I brought some sweet back from Thailand that were this flavour. They stunk the office out, and not one person liked them. Ungrateful ####

 

Durian tastes horrible. The texture is almost as bad.