All hail the “King of Fruits”.
Confession: I’ve lived in the Philippines my entire life — that’s 22 full calendar years — and I’ve never eaten durian.
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It’s a pretty large fruit with a husk covered in thorns. In the Philippines, durian is largely grown in Mindanao, particularly in the Davao region.
From where I came from, durian — like balut — is always a hit or miss. Personally, I never really thought about it. Probably because I live far away from where the fruit is cultivated. Plus, no one in my family is crazy enough about it to actually buy one from the local supermarket where it’s made ~easily accessible~.
I only see (smell?) durian at the fruit section of groceries. Putting a stinky fruit inside a closed, air conditioned room is not the best idea. But grocery shopping is a chore I actually enjoy.
I am the Miranda Priestly of grocery shopping. I have a strategy, and part of that strategy is to avoid the fruit section as much as possible. The reason I do this is because the smell of durian morphs my face into Miranda’s when Andy couldn’t tell two very different belts apart.
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Whoever first discovered durian and said, “Hey, guys! Check out this stinky fruit! It’s a stinky fruit! We should eat this stinky fruit! ” is probably too tired of living in this world to do such a risky thing. I mean, if the smell alone doesn’t put you off — it smells like shit, there I said it — then the appearance should do the job.
Dude, if you see something spiky and stinky, you don’t eat it! You stay away from it! If jackfruits were Charmander — edgy, but also cute and harmless — then durian is Charizard; you don’t mess with it unless you’re looking for trouble.
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