You hear all these Western food journalists describe it like a cross between death and moldy cheese and you wonder why the locals in Southeast Asia would eat it. But if you actually try it, it's actually quite pleasant. Definitely different, but since when is difference a bad thing? The smell of the fruit itself is quite pungent, but then so is old cheese and nobody makes puking metaphors to describe it.
durian smells worse than the worst cheese. there's a reason they have signs on the hotel lifts and things that ban durian from them and we don't have signs to ban cheese from enclosed spaces.
Also i can't say i liked the taste either. Tasted like something left in a warm car for a day or two. But then again Asian butchers always have tripe in their counters and that smell and taste of that is foul as well. Also century eggs (seriously.. why would you eat that? how would you even discover that as a food?!). Asians go nuts of a lot of things i can't fathom liking. I'm sure they'd boak at some of the things I like to eat at home though.
Durian.
You hear all these Western food journalists describe it like a cross between death and moldy cheese and you wonder why the locals in Southeast Asia would eat it. But if you actually try it, it's actually quite pleasant. Definitely different, but since when is difference a bad thing? The smell of the fruit itself is quite pungent, but then so is old cheese and nobody makes puking metaphors to describe it.
durian smells worse than the worst cheese. there's a reason they have signs on the hotel lifts and things that ban durian from them and we don't have signs to ban cheese from enclosed spaces.
Also i can't say i liked the taste either. Tasted like something left in a warm car for a day or two. But then again Asian butchers always have tripe in their counters and that smell and taste of that is foul as well. Also century eggs (seriously.. why would you eat that? how would you even discover that as a food?!). Asians go nuts of a lot of things i can't fathom liking. I'm sure they'd boak at some of the things I like to eat at home though.
No, but we did make "Did someone cut the cheese?" metaphors in referring to cheese as the smell of farts so...