It seemed weird to me when I first heard of it. When I was in college, the dad of one of my old frat brothers was the CO there in Millington and later at the Mare Island base near San Francisco. I went to the change of command at Mare Island. That was pretty cool.
Heh. My wife - and it seems all Vietnamese - love durian. The fruit smells god-awful. In fact, the saying is durian "smells like hell; tastes like heaven." I don't know about the latter; I can't get past the former.
I travel quite a bit in SE Asia and they all love it. I was in Myanmar when I tried it. It is connected to Buddhism somehow (at least in Burma anyway). As for the smell and taste, I'd say it both smells and tastes like hell. Most hotels in SE Asia won't allow you to bring it into your room if you buy it. If the fruit gets into the carpet they told me it's almost impossible to get the smell out. No hotel I've stayed in would allow it in their rooms.
Do you have to bring Gas Masks, cause them thangs is stanky!!! Never ate one lol
Used to be in the fall. One of the big three in South Alabama, along with the Peanut Festival and the Rattlesnake Roundup...
This place I used to work had some trees around the parking lot that had fruit about the size of large grapes, sort of pink in color, that smelled like barf when crushed. A group of Asian women would gather them up every year and take them away. Dont remember what they did with them but we called them puke fruit.
