Weird Fruit of the Day
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In Singapore, I keep on discovering weird things to eat. I got a chance to try a weird fruit: Durian[^] Any body ever had it? More importantly did you love it. What a nasty smell? It amazes me that some people like it a lot. Fortunately, it is banned in the hotel I am staying at and at the place I go to work.
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In Singapore, I keep on discovering weird things to eat. I got a chance to try a weird fruit: Durian[^] Any body ever had it? More importantly did you love it. What a nasty smell? It amazes me that some people like it a lot. Fortunately, it is banned in the hotel I am staying at and at the place I go to work.
If is not featured in America's Test Kitchen or Jacques Pepin Fast Food My Way then it is considered inedable.
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In Singapore, I keep on discovering weird things to eat. I got a chance to try a weird fruit: Durian[^] Any body ever had it? More importantly did you love it. What a nasty smell? It amazes me that some people like it a lot. Fortunately, it is banned in the hotel I am staying at and at the place I go to work.
Durian. To me, it smells like something crawled away and died a couple of weeks ago while carrying a load of onions and garlic. I'm told it's really good once you get past the smell, but I haven't been able to acquire a taste for it.
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In Singapore, I keep on discovering weird things to eat. I got a chance to try a weird fruit: Durian[^] Any body ever had it? More importantly did you love it. What a nasty smell? It amazes me that some people like it a lot. Fortunately, it is banned in the hotel I am staying at and at the place I go to work.
Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
I got a chance to try a weird fruit: Durian[^]
When I saw the subject of your thread, I made a bet with myself that it was the Durian you were talking about. I had the chance to go to the Philippines a few years ago with my wife, and we traveled from island to island during ten days. One night, we had to take a ferryboat to go from one island to another, and the trip would last one night. There was also a huge dormitory where you could sleep. That was the year when avian flu was the new main world threat. So we eventually found ourselves trying to sleep in a dormitory when at least 20 people were snoring, and where people had packed their luggage against the dormitory walls, including LOTS of Durian and cages with living chickens. I wondered what would kill me first: the noise, the smell or the flu... Seriously, the smell of the Durian is the one of rotten meat, it is simply disgusting. How could possibly someone want to eat it ?
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In Singapore, I keep on discovering weird things to eat. I got a chance to try a weird fruit: Durian[^] Any body ever had it? More importantly did you love it. What a nasty smell? It amazes me that some people like it a lot. Fortunately, it is banned in the hotel I am staying at and at the place I go to work.
There was a fruit I tried in Egypt last year that smelt terrible and tasted worse. Can't remember what it was. It looked kinda like a slightly squashed pear. They also had juice of it for breakfast.
Simon
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In Singapore, I keep on discovering weird things to eat. I got a chance to try a weird fruit: Durian[^] Any body ever had it? More importantly did you love it. What a nasty smell? It amazes me that some people like it a lot. Fortunately, it is banned in the hotel I am staying at and at the place I go to work.
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In Singapore, I keep on discovering weird things to eat. I got a chance to try a weird fruit: Durian[^] Any body ever had it? More importantly did you love it. What a nasty smell? It amazes me that some people like it a lot. Fortunately, it is banned in the hotel I am staying at and at the place I go to work.
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In Singapore, I keep on discovering weird things to eat. I got a chance to try a weird fruit: Durian[^] Any body ever had it? More importantly did you love it. What a nasty smell? It amazes me that some people like it a lot. Fortunately, it is banned in the hotel I am staying at and at the place I go to work.
They severed a bowl of fruit, including durian, at a course I taught in Jakarta years ago. Since I'll try anything once, I ate one the first day and it wasn't bad tasting at all. In fact I rather enjoyed them and the students made sure they saved one for me every day I was there. My Indonesian students were surprised that an American could get past the smell of durian and actually eat them, though. They also had another fruit that I can't remember the name of. It tasted similar to a grape and looked like a bowl of spiders at first glance. It had a yellowish-orange skin covered with spines, but the spines were soft and sort of wiggled in the bowl. Like I said, it looked like a bowl of spiders to me, but tasted nice.
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Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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They severed a bowl of fruit, including durian, at a course I taught in Jakarta years ago. Since I'll try anything once, I ate one the first day and it wasn't bad tasting at all. In fact I rather enjoyed them and the students made sure they saved one for me every day I was there. My Indonesian students were surprised that an American could get past the smell of durian and actually eat them, though. They also had another fruit that I can't remember the name of. It tasted similar to a grape and looked like a bowl of spiders at first glance. It had a yellowish-orange skin covered with spines, but the spines were soft and sort of wiggled in the bowl. Like I said, it looked like a bowl of spiders to me, but tasted nice.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Walt Fair, Jr. wrote:
They severed a bowl of fruit
Poor bowl of fruit, it didn't deserve it I tell ya! Join PETFB (People for the Ethical Treatment of Fruit Bowls) today!
Hey, I can't help it if my fingers and brain aren't always on speaking terms? :)
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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In Singapore, I keep on discovering weird things to eat. I got a chance to try a weird fruit: Durian[^] Any body ever had it? More importantly did you love it. What a nasty smell? It amazes me that some people like it a lot. Fortunately, it is banned in the hotel I am staying at and at the place I go to work.
I tried this fresh in Macau and it wasn't bad. Later I tried Durian candy and it was pretty awful. I would try it fresh again, but leave the candy alone!
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They severed a bowl of fruit, including durian, at a course I taught in Jakarta years ago. Since I'll try anything once, I ate one the first day and it wasn't bad tasting at all. In fact I rather enjoyed them and the students made sure they saved one for me every day I was there. My Indonesian students were surprised that an American could get past the smell of durian and actually eat them, though. They also had another fruit that I can't remember the name of. It tasted similar to a grape and looked like a bowl of spiders at first glance. It had a yellowish-orange skin covered with spines, but the spines were soft and sort of wiggled in the bowl. Like I said, it looked like a bowl of spiders to me, but tasted nice.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
Rambutans?
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In Singapore, I keep on discovering weird things to eat. I got a chance to try a weird fruit: Durian[^] Any body ever had it? More importantly did you love it. What a nasty smell? It amazes me that some people like it a lot. Fortunately, it is banned in the hotel I am staying at and at the place I go to work.
Tastes like camembert left out in the sun for a couple of days!
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Rambutans?
Yeah, I think that's what they were. Sure tasted good, but I've never seen them since.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Rambutans?
Aren't they ginger haired apes that swing about in the trees in Borneo, or whatever it's called this week?
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In Singapore, I keep on discovering weird things to eat. I got a chance to try a weird fruit: Durian[^] Any body ever had it? More importantly did you love it. What a nasty smell? It amazes me that some people like it a lot. Fortunately, it is banned in the hotel I am staying at and at the place I go to work.
Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
Any body ever had it? More importantly did you love it.
We grow them in our front yard. They do smell but they are good. :)
Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
Fortunately, it is banned in the hotel I am staying at and at the place I go to work
They are banned in a lot of hotels frequented by tourists or western expats.
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In Singapore, I keep on discovering weird things to eat. I got a chance to try a weird fruit: Durian[^] Any body ever had it? More importantly did you love it. What a nasty smell? It amazes me that some people like it a lot. Fortunately, it is banned in the hotel I am staying at and at the place I go to work.
I lived in Singapore for 4 years when I was in my teens. Our amah (housekeeper) brought home a durian one day, cut it up and put it in the fridge for us to try. We kept putting it off until the smell had permeated all the other foods, at which my mother made me eat a piece (so we could honestly tell the amah we'd tried it) and then throw it out. It tasted as nasty as it smelled - I'm not sure it was because it had gone rotten in the fridge or it was supposed to taste like that. First and last time I've ever eaten anything with a clothespeg on my nose!
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They severed a bowl of fruit, including durian, at a course I taught in Jakarta years ago. Since I'll try anything once, I ate one the first day and it wasn't bad tasting at all. In fact I rather enjoyed them and the students made sure they saved one for me every day I was there. My Indonesian students were surprised that an American could get past the smell of durian and actually eat them, though. They also had another fruit that I can't remember the name of. It tasted similar to a grape and looked like a bowl of spiders at first glance. It had a yellowish-orange skin covered with spines, but the spines were soft and sort of wiggled in the bowl. Like I said, it looked like a bowl of spiders to me, but tasted nice.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
rambutans?
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rambutans?
ian dennis wrote:
rambutans?
I should have read Colin's reply first!