More On Those Disgusting Durians

Digg has article today on durians:

"Adventures in eating: The taste of 3-day-old wet garbage?

delsquacho.com — If you haven ’t heard of a durian, its because they are banned in most public places because they smell absolutely horrible. They also are roughly the size of a football and look like the business end of some sort of medieval weapon. Some consider them delicacies. This guy doesn't."

But the site is hosed so I had to do with the comments, some of which expose the truth of this nasty fruit:

"My local Vietnamese restaurant makes a Durian shake that's to die for. In a good way. It does have a bit of a gasoline aroma, but that's really not as bad as it sounds."

"It's better to eat it frozen; then it tastes like vanilla ice cream with a lot of onion powder."

"The first bite is really bad. It tastes like banana, rotten onion and kerosene. But it tasted better with every bite. Overall I would say I liked it. I finished the whole thing."

I'd say all of these are accurate in terms of flavor. How people like it I will never understand.