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[-] rimu@piefed.social 45 points 5 months ago

Durian.

Texture of banana but with a huge seed. Tastes like a strange combination of rotten eggs, whipped cream, vanilla ice cream, diced garlic, onions, cheese, and... caramel?

It's fucked. Never again.

[-] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There are lots of varieties of Durian that bring out all those flavors (and possibly more) to various degrees. Supposedly some of them can be good if you acclimate and enjoy funky fruit.

The small dehydrated piece a friend brought me from Vietnam recently had tasted like if you went to a pizza joint and mixed the little containers of garlic butter and bleu cheese sauce, then added some pineapple and gasoline and a hint of vanilla custard for good measure. It was extremely weird and mostly reminded me of garbage. And for the rest of the day, the smallest burp brought back its vile ghost.

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

I've only had it once and I don't know what variety it was, but despite the smell it just tasted kinda like a honeydew. There was no bitterness or anything

[-] technomad@slrpnk.net 14 points 5 months ago
[-] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

It looks like those lungs they put on cigarette packs

[-] tal@lemmy.today 13 points 5 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian

The unusual flavour and odour of the fruit have prompted many people to express diverse and passionate views ranging from deep appreciation to intense disgust. Writing in 1856, the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace provided a much-quoted description of the flavour of the durian:

The five cells are silky-white within, and are filled with a mass of firm, cream-coloured pulp, containing about three seeds each. This pulp is the edible part, and its consistence and flavour are indescribable. A rich custard highly flavoured with almonds gives the best general idea of it, but there are occasional wafts of flavour that call to mind cream-cheese, onion-sauce, sherry-wine, and other incongruous dishes. Then there is a rich glutinous smoothness in the pulp which nothing else possesses, but which adds to its delicacy. It is neither acidic nor sweet nor juicy; yet it wants neither of these qualities, for it is in itself perfect. It produces no nausea or other bad effect, and the more you eat of it the less you feel inclined to stop. In fact, to eat Durians is a new sensation worth a voyage to the East to experience. ... as producing a food of the most exquisite flavour it is unsurpassed.[a]

Wallace described himself as being at first reluctant to try it because of the aroma, "but in Borneo I found a ripe fruit on the ground, and, eating it out of doors, I at once became a confirmed Durian eater". He cited one traveller from 1599:[b] "it is of such an excellent taste that it surpasses in flavour all other fruits of the world, according to those who have tasted it." He cites another writer: "To those not used to it, it seems at first to smell like rotten onions, but immediately after they have tasted it they prefer it to all other food. The natives give it honourable titles, exalt it, and make verses on it."

While Wallace cautions that "the smell of the ripe fruit is certainly at first disagreeable", later descriptions by Westerners are more graphic in detail. Novelist Anthony Burgess writes that eating durian is "like eating sweet raspberry blancmange in the lavatory". Travel and food writer Richard Sterling says:

 its odor is best described as pig-excrement, turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock. It can be smelled from yards away. Despite its great local popularity, the raw fruit is forbidden from some establishments such as hotels, subways and airports, including public transportation in Southeast Asia.

Other comparisons have been made with the civet, sewage, stale vomit, skunk spray and used surgical swabs.

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

This is the most fun I've had reading text so far today, it's like I was transported to another time and place without leaving the comfort of my own couch.

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

Durian is amazing if you've had it when you were younger. So if you got a young one, train them to try out new foods, fruits, vegetables, then they won't be picky eaters. I had durian when I was younger and love the shit out of it. Those who aren't, are likely to be disgusted by it.

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

the smell is fucking epic. I was sad that I smelled it before trying durian ice cream, I think it's ruined it for me.

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Why is it ruined for you? I've had durian before durian ice cream and they are both really good.

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

the smell of durian makes me ill. Durian ice cream doesn't have the smell, but the flavor profile still makes me think of the smell lol I guess stupid brain sensory issues

[-] Wanangwa_Bamidele@thelemmy.club 4 points 5 months ago

Durian is good. You can buy one easily in Vietnam, and cheap.

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Now I'm visualizing a shadowy figure in a trenchcoat in Ho Chi Minh City, beckoning curious tourists from an alleyway...

"Psst... hey buddy... yeah you... want to buy some durian?"

[-] anon6789@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I thought it was so good and bad at the same time. (But I feel the bad lasts longer!). I've had candy, wafers, and dried forms. The worst has always been that it makes me burp and it tastes like a restaurant dumpster smells.

It's like in a movie when someone's mind is fed ask the knowledge in the universe until they're overwhelmed and turn to dust or explode, but for taste buds.

[-] Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

So, the same flavor as my dog's farts.

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