OT : Euuurrrgghhhh......

One of my colleagues has just returned from 2 wks in Malaysia.
She has just given me a sweet made from Durian Fruit.
If you can imagine sucking raw sewerage off of a corroded aluminium block
you'll get some idea of the taste sensation I am currently
experiencing......

 

You want[1] to try those garlic flavoured sweets they make out there...

[1] Actually, no you don't.

Dave

 

Heh,
I'm adjusted to some of the things that the Chinese and Taiwanese pass off
as sweets - e.g. dry compressed fish skin etc etc.
But nothing prepared me for the smell and taste of something thats meant to
be a fruit !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian

 

I had some sweetened (partially-)dried yak sweets from China a couple of
months ago.

I'll give most things meat-based a try, but I'm fucked if I'm *ever*
touching those things again.

 

Many airlines in the Far East forbid the carrying of durian fruit on
board, because it smells so foul. Tastes OK, apparently - it's just the
smell that's appalling.

 

Unlucky.. Durians do indeed smell like decomposing corpses left in the sun,
but taste pretty good..

Durian Ice Cream is fantastic!

Its sort of the case that up close, the smell is so overpowering it
transforms into something else..

What I want to know is who the first person to eat one? Its like someone
discovering that dogshit is tasty... it may be, but *Im* never going to find
out..

 

I just love Durian fruit. Really. I buy them occasionally [1] from the
13th quarter in Paris. Durian milk-shakes are really nice. The texture
is strange but the flavour nice and ripe.

A nice ripe fruit will really perfume the house. I've heard (and I
don't now if it's an urban myth) that some aircraft will not allow
people to fly with them, as they're too smelly.

[1] Because SWMBO's views on Durian fruit are not the same as mine.

 

Bugger. Ginged by TOG.

 

"Nothing wrong with a bit of danger, Biker Boy"

 

I thought it was very much like eating a perfumed flower, IYSWIM.

 

Which?
The Durian or the dogshit?

 

Fucking hell. I pay about 4 - 5 euros per kg for one.

 

<TOG@toil>; <>; <>
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I really like the description towards the bottom of the Wikpedia article
that was posted...

"the aroma is akin to pig shit mixed with turpentine and onions"

I bet they fly off the shelf

 

WTF are you talking about

it's the most beautiful tasting fruit in the world (unless you're one of
those people who prefers plastic cheddar to a mature stilton)

I bought one last month from a Chinese supermarket in Colindale

- bootiful it was

Try the real thing

 

And hotels

 

Brownz @ Work skrev:

Your culinary experience is really impressive.

 

Tescos are doing a 2 for 1 on their value "Raw sewerage on coroded
aluminium block" at the mo. Gordon Ramsay swears by it.

 

I'll have to pop in and buy one then for sure.

According to Fi the sweets do smell and taste just like the fruit.



I'd like to try the real thing before writing it off completely though.



I didn't like the sound of Chinese Thousand Year Old Eggs when they were
served to us at a banquet in Foshan, I thoroughly enjoyed them though, much
to our hosts disappointment.

 

Your reply is really boring.

 

How long before Scots chip shops start coating them in batter and deep
frying them?