Apr
29th
2018
I wanted to recommend a story to my readers. · 6:46am Apr 29th, 2018
Enduriance
I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I heartily recommend it. I suggest looking up Durians in wikipedia before you start, so you get a general idea of what the fruit is like. And while the story may slightly exaggerate the toughness of the fruit, I promise that there is no description possible that can exaggerate the legendary smell of the King of Fruits.
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Bucking Nonsense · 364 views
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Durian, you say? As an Asian kid growing up in an Asian family smack-dab in the middle of Utah, I'd have to say that while it's relatively hard to come by fresh durian outside of finding an Asian supermarket (like the just down the freeway from my house), birthday cake with Durian frosting tastes great.
Meanwhile the rest of my family and I tease my 6-year-old brother about "Not knowing good food" because he prefers hamburgers over durian. XD
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Well, the taste is great, by all accounts, but if you're going to prepare a meal using durian, you'd better have understanding neighbors... or no neighbors, period. Descriptions of the smell include rotten onions, turpentine, and raw sewage.
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I'd have to disagree. The durian stand at the Asian supermarket smells now worse than any of the other fresh fruit stands, and quite a few of my friends are perfectly fine with the smell, even if they occasionally crack a joke about it. Though, to be fair, it may just be that I'm used to the smell and they wanted to be nice. Honestly, it's 1:00 AM now here in Utah, and I just spent the past hour-and-a-half working on the final chapter of part 1 of one of my stories. Don't mind the ramblepost that is this comment.
Anybody who doesn't know what a Durian is has clearly never played Super Mario Sunshine. They're the spiky round fruit that are next to impossible to kick to the Pianta on the other side of the docks next to the ground pound building in the Plaza. And you have to kick them, you can't pick them up.
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It smells like heaven once you eat it. The smell before you eat it is terrible and literally shitty as all fuck, but after you eat it, it transforms the smell into something that is great and you just can't get enough of.
The actual taste is like really, really, REALLy good vanilla with a hint of chocolate and Thai tea flavor.
It's bizarre and I love it.