Full Version: Durian: what does it smell and taste like?
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Cheese, but with a fine nutty flavor. 
smells like $hit. im guessing it probly tastes tha same
it smells like $hit indeed lol (more like farts I'd say..), if it tastes alike I dunno though 
I'd say it tastes a bit like butter and mango with a big emphasis on "a bit" as the taste is very peculiar & hard to descibe, it also depends on the ripeness of the fruit which can alter the taste a lot, some say it reminds them of peach also and are gaga abt it.. I'm not a fan of durian at all, never understood the hype in Asia abt it... my favorite fruit is mangustan instead 
I'd say it tastes a bit like butter and mango with a big emphasis on "a bit" as the taste is very peculiar & hard to descibe, it also depends on the ripeness of the fruit which can alter the taste a lot, some say it reminds them of peach also and are gaga abt it.. I'm not a fan of durian at all, never understood the hype in Asia abt it... my favorite fruit is mangustan instead
I would say something like very sweet, bavarian creme but with an essence of onions. I don't think it smells like $hit or fart, but it does have a pungency to the fragrance, if you will.
It has creamy buttery taste with abit of mango taste to it very acidic like. But smell very very pungent almost rotten.
I believe the Balinese tiger (the only tiger who eat fruits) love durians and infact gets drunk off it.
I believe the Balinese tiger (the only tiger who eat fruits) love durians and infact gets drunk off it.
Durian looks like $hit, smells like $hit and tastes like $hit. However, there is durian ice cream, which smells and tastes like $hit, but looks like ice cream. A vast improvement. So there you go.
I can't quite find a way to describe the smell..... rotted cream, onions, sweet - but almost like rotting protein...... but no, that isn't even it.
Since I knew what it smelled like fresh and couldn't handle it, one day I bought some durian pudding cups at the grocery. It was a bit more bearable, but I still could not manage tasting it. And that one open pudding cup smelled so strongly that I could smell it in the other end of the house AFTER putting it in the trash out in the garage. I had to take it to the curb! But at least the stray dogs, cats and coyotes stayed away from the garbage can that night.
Since I knew what it smelled like fresh and couldn't handle it, one day I bought some durian pudding cups at the grocery. It was a bit more bearable, but I still could not manage tasting it. And that one open pudding cup smelled so strongly that I could smell it in the other end of the house AFTER putting it in the trash out in the garage. I had to take it to the curb! But at least the stray dogs, cats and coyotes stayed away from the garbage can that night.
It is soft and creamy like custard, with a tone of yougurt and buttermilk sourness.
i dont know why i dont like durian
Oh it depends. A durian lover and a durian loather will describe it differently. I wouldn't say it smells like fart at all, although it definitely is very pungent. If you can get past the smell durians are actually rather sweet and as matigasngulo said, with a nutty flavour as well.
QUOTE (planxty @ Dec 15 2009, 11:46 AM) 
Durian looks like $hit, smells like $hit and tastes like $hit. However, there is durian ice cream, which smells and tastes like $hit, but looks like ice cream. A vast improvement. So there you go.
In summary, it smells like Planxty's pussy. LOL!
I find Durian's smell is a sulfur type odor which means it is a cross between rotten eggs and gun powder.
The flavor isn't related so much to its smell as much as other food are
So, the texture is creamy and soft ... much like butter or very soft bread
Its flavor is that of a fruit that has spent much time in the sun
Try it ... you may like it .. or not ... I really don't like it
The flavor isn't related so much to its smell as much as other food are
So, the texture is creamy and soft ... much like butter or very soft bread
Its flavor is that of a fruit that has spent much time in the sun
Try it ... you may like it .. or not ... I really don't like it
QUOTE (Savan @ Jan 26 2010, 12:05 AM)
In summary, it smells like Planxty's pussy. LOL!
Gee thanks. And your mother's too!
What ho!
According to Great Uncle Ernie's accounts, durian tastes like the sweaty nether regions of a certain Burmese villagewoman he partook of back in the days of the East India company. A quote from his notebooks, currently being prepared for publication by our jack of all trades butler Dish:
Wildebeest Stainsbury
According to Great Uncle Ernie's accounts, durian tastes like the sweaty nether regions of a certain Burmese villagewoman he partook of back in the days of the East India company. A quote from his notebooks, currently being prepared for publication by our jack of all trades butler Dish:
QUOTE
I emerged from the jungle into a clearing punctuated by several makeshift huts. A collection of gaunt swarthy men sat around a dead pig smoking a substance that rendered them quite trance-like. Naked children played soccer with a cocoanut. Walking further I espied a rice paddy with three women knee deep in water bent over the tender shoots. Having remained rootless since Arisha the Leper-whore of Jakarta, I removed my pith helmet and partook of these brown-skinned beauties leaving a three rupee tip by the pig carcass. The first two were quality colonial rogering, I must say, while the third reeked of durian and Nikka Black, a local rice brandy. Nevertheless I sowed my seed for king and country and brought home two of the village ragamuffins to be my personal toastwarmers.
Wildebeest Stainsbury
It is pleasant village scene.
- Masa.
- Masa.
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