Husky smells Durian - wins academy award for best dramatic performance

[packman]

DURIAN which to the uninitiated human smells like week old unwashed dibussy (All sexual parts) wrapped in gorgonzola, squeezed through the toes of a hobo and kept in a jar of diarrhea farts for 6 days.

[catbyte]

1. LOL. It really is nasty. In fact, in many parts of the world, you can't have one in public.

Actual sign:

[Walleye]

2. Hollywood, get the dogs paw print on a contract

[dchill]

3. If a dog won't eat it...

[calimary]

10. Indeed.

That oughta tell you something.

[paleotn]

14. Yep.

[Laffy Kat]

18. LOL, I know. Mine eat cat sh*t!

[Ocelot II]

4. Anthony Bourdain once said that eating durian makes your breath smell like

you'd been French-kissing your dead grandmother. Vomit-flavored custard is another description I've heard.

[Warpy]

16. It was the only thing I ever saw Andrew Zimmern spit out.

They sell it in the international grocery here but I've never been curious enough to buy one. For one thing, they're enormous.

[MLAA]

5. Sorry to inform, that's not acting. It really is that bad 😬

[Arkansas Granny]

6. My DIL is from Vietnam. She talked me into trying durian one time.

Honestly, the rind smelled better than the "edible" part of the fruit, and I can't even describe the taste. It was pretty horrible. 😝

[2naSalit]

7. I'll take that as a...

Goodhuskies seal of disapproval!

[EYESORE 9001]

8. It's a superfood

If you can get past the smell/taste, you’ve got superpowers far in excess of mine.
🤮

[Floyd R. Turbo]

9. 🤣

[Wild blueberry]

11. Imagine having the smell super-powers of a dog

[Historic NY]

12. From unda cheese

[Hamlette]

13. that video is the best!

[erronis]

15. That is cruel and unusual punishment. In the US - call the ASPCA.

I've tried it - not too bad once you get past the odor. But then, why?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian

An acquired taste, some people regard the durian as having a pleasantly sweet fragrance, whereas others find the aroma overpowering and unpleasant. The smell evokes reactions from deep appreciation to intense disgust, and has been described variously as rotten onions, turpentine, and raw sewage. The persistence of its odour, which may linger for several days, led certain hotels and public transportation services in Southeast Asia to ban the fruit. The nineteenth-century British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace described its flesh as "a rich custard highly flavoured with almonds". The flesh can be consumed at various stages of ripeness, and it is used to flavour a wide variety of savoury and sweet desserts in Southeast Asian cuisines. The seeds can also be eaten when cooked.

[Quixote1818]

17. Cat's smelling Durian (video)

[nuxvomica]

20. LOL, the one furiously scratching the table

Obeying the impulse to cover it with litter/bury it.

[electric_blue68]

19. Omg That poor doggo! ... I read about it Decades ago...

it was on the cover of an Nat'l Geo back in the '70s...

You're not allowed to bring it into hotels or on airplanes
Japanese tourists heading back to Japan from, say,
Malaysia have been booted off planes (with it in a suitcase wrapped in cellophane, newspaper etc) by special Durian hunting dogs. Also booted from hotels.

It was described as eating the most wonderful smelling desert in a rotting garbage heap.


Anyway I was becoming friends with an acquaintance in
late '70s. She told me at one time she lived in Malaysia. A light bulb went off. I said - do you know about The Durian?

She got a dreamy look in her eyes;
said "Ah...the Durian!.".. She was also probably totally surprised that someone she'd only hung out w a few times briefly bc I was doing sine commercial artwork for her husband, would know such an obscure thing in this part if the world!
On my way their to their apt I sprained my ankle and after her husband helped me up the 3 flights of stairs...

I was in their house for 3 hours with an ice pack off & on!
That's how we got to becime friends.

And we still 🙂 are (tho a long break nearly 20 yrs '99-'20) 'through mailing mishaps, and a an unexpected reunion in '21! ) !

[Not Heidi]

25. Sounds like a wonderful friendship. n/t

[electric_blue68]

26. I dunno wouldn't do that to my dog if I had one

[Not Heidi]

27. Did these friends do this? n/t

[Rhiannon12866]

21. Poor doggy!

[EndlessWire]

22. The part that I liked best

was the tongue at the end, lolling out like the dog was about to die. The cats were great, with a lot of them about to vomit, which cats are good at. After seeing the cats, I think the dog had nausea, too.

I have never heard of this fruit. TY for the education!

[Not Heidi]

23. And the Oscar goes to . . .

DOG!

[Emile]

24. That dog should be in the movies.