“Indescribable, something you will either love or despise…Your breath will smell as if you’d been French-kissing your dead grandmother.”
Anthony Bourdain
He was talking about durian, a locally grown fruit that is banned in hotels in Thailand as well as on Singapore’s mass transit system as well as other public places due to its pungent odor. I just ate it with rice for breakfast. Once you get passed the smell…
I give you, ladies and gents, the king of fruit: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/durian-fruit
ST UnWoked & UnVaxxed! 
Oh, a perfect chinkbug food; you’ll need PPE to be near it – and people will stay 6 feet (or more) away from you after you’ve eaten it. ST, do people actually *eat* this ‘delicacy’? If so, how, may I ask?
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Please re-read the penultimate sentence in my OP.
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Please see my P.S. I’m still wondering….
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I am lost CT. What are you wondering?
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How long it took you to try durian/get accustomed to eating it. (I know Marine life can require adventurous and inventive food choices.) lol
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So, um…does it actually taste good?😋
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Thais absolutely crave the stuff. I suspect it is an acquired taste. The smell lingers for hours.
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Here is a better article on the king of fruit. Anybody want to guess what the Thais call the queen of fruit?
https://theculturetrip.com/asia/singapore/articles/8-things-you-need-to-know-about-durian-the-worlds-smelliest-fruit/
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P. S. I know that Marines “live off the land”, and can take in almost everything, so I’m not surprised that you’ve eaten it. How long did it take to get accustomed to it?
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“How long did it take to get accustomed to it?”
Please wager a guess based on my early comment about durian being an acquired taste.
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Acquiring a taste is still a work in progress, I’m guessing.
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Yes!
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Godspeed with that project,
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No rush, some things are worth striving for. Take Memorial Day for instance…
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Indeed. Do you want my annual quote from “The Screwtape Letters” on Monday – or next weekend?
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yes
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?En la lunes aqui, en la próxima sabado, o ambos?
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да
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Copy. (I didn’t know I could read Cyrillic characters before….Getting smarter, l am.) Will commemorate both dates, aye.
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P. S. ST, you’re memorable now; Memorial Day remembrance of you, Lord hear our prayer, should be a long time in coming, just sayin’.
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“How long it took you to try durian/get accustomed to eating it. (I know Marine life can require adventurous and inventive food choices.) lol”
Please wager a guess based on my early comment about durian being an acquired taste.
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Kimchi definitely belongs at #2 on the list! Got into a small elevator once in Seoul with six businessmen happily smacking away at this hideous stuff and came close to fainting. 🙂
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