Yesterday Dave brought over a special treat, related to a lunchtime conversation a while back between Dave, Hugh and myself.  I don't remember how we got to the subject, but we were talking about durian fruit, which is a large, round, very spiky-looking thing that on the inside has some pods of creamy-custardy stuff.  It looks like it could be yummy, but I've heard that it smells horrid and tastes weird.

Anyway, Dave didn't bring over a durian, but he did bring over some wafer cookies with durian in them.  Dave and I split a cookie, and Hugh had a whole cookie.

God help us...just opening the bag they were in was a preview of what fresh hell we were in for. A stench wafted from the bag that kind of reminded me of sewer gas, onions and garlic.  No one in their right mind would want to eat something that smelled like that I thought, but then, are we in our right minds to try something like this?

Still, wary but somewhat undaunted, we all ate our respective pieces quickly, and no one was harmed...just grossed out.

What I noticed first was the bouquet of sewer gas/fart/rotting cabbage, followed by a creamy oniony/garlicky flavor, followed by a bit of sweetness, with an aftertaste of raw garbage, or at least, it tasted like what raw garbage smells like.

For the rest of the day, I was able to keep it down, but occasionally I got a burp that tasted like sulfur and garbage.  Never again!  If the cookie is this bad, God only knows how evil the fruit must be "in person"!  It was like I willingly walked up to a dog who has been eating cabbage and let him fart in my mouth.

Dave put the rest of package into a Ziploc bag and it sat in his office briefly.  VERY briefly.  Unfortunately, the durian stench seeped through the seal of the bag and punched him in the nose, so he took the package out of the office and put it in his car.  I tried not to think about those things baking in the backseat or the trunk...or how he would deal with the ride home.

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