July 29, 2008
The King of Fruits
I checked to see if anyone had done the ubiquitous blog post of it but I didn’t see it…but yes, I ate the King of Fruits for the first time. Apparently you can get in Switzerland? Who knew. The strange part is my great uncle bought it to surprise me and kept saying,”Don’t you smell anything?” and I couldn’t! Then I took a big whiff and I kind of thought it smelled GOOD. Ahh what was I thinking!
It was so perfectly ripe that it was just cracking open by itself.
I found the shell of the fruit to be quite interesting and alien looking. Sorry I haven’t eaten that many asian fruits! By this time it was starting to smell bad…
The texture was like…lightly fibrous avocado? It was so sweet and delicious and creamy!! It’s like the butter of fruits. Okay so what happened was that I didn’t want to eat it all at once so I put it in this glass Pyrex dish with a rubber lid in the fridge. During the night I just kept smelling it and smelling it (through the rubber and glass and through the fridge!).
I so didn’t want to eat it the next day. So when I got back home…I started getting nauseous and gagging just at the thought of it. So yeah the moral is…eat it all at once? Also it’s so not worth the smell. I feel ill at the thought of it right now, actually.
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dude it’s HUGE!!! i love how you describe the taste- i’m intrigued!! but how could something so good smell so bad?? it’s so weird.
Yes exactly it’s huge and wouldn’t go away…NOT UMAMI
OMG, it looks like an alien baby!! It might turn to be one of this?
http://gawker.com/5030531/dead-monster-washes-ashore-in-montauk
Durian is a great fruit! It’s definitely too large for one person to eat, though.
I think once the initial, intense garlic/onion flavor starts to fade (it takes a minute to acclimate to it) the fruit is actually quite sweet, in addition to the custard-like texture.