Comment on What is the most beloved food from where you live, and what's the most divisive?
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoDurian is divisive ANYWHERE.
I once brought home durian ice cream from the asian market and it smelled so strongly that my wife wouldn’t let me put it in the freezer with the rest of the food
Tasted pretty good though, but it really did smell like feet. I thought that was just a meme until I tried it
To me, durian snelled of old rotting onions, but I thought it tasted pretty good.
Wait till you try the authentic high quality stuff someday.
hexagonwin@lemmy.today 21 hours ago
is it really that bad? i tried it like once in thailand and it didn’t smell bad at all. maybe because it was fresh?
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
I’m a durian lover, so I’m probably the wrong person to ask. But the smell is unmistakable, and almost universally polarising. The better quality — variety, not just freshness — the durian, the stronger the smell. Did you not smell it, or did you just not mind the smell?
hexagonwin@lemmy.today 20 hours ago
my memory is vague but it just didn’t smell special at all.. weird
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
That’s quite possible, if you had an unripe or just crappy quality one. How did it taste?