Sunday, May 13, 2007

Eat Durian Fruit


As part of the BBC's "50 Things To Eat Before You Die" I needed to try Durian fruit.

According to Wikipedia the fruit is most famous for smelling and tasting disgusting. Food writer Richard Sterling says "its odor is best described as pig-shit, turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock" and others claim it is like civet, sewage, stale vomit, skunk spray and used surgical swabs.

During my recent visit to Bristol, Jody and I discovered some in an oriental supermarket, and took some home for a taste test. Cleverly, we decided to do this while drunk... thus adding to the likelihood of vomiting.

Here's the vid we made:

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