Durian

Thanks to the nose-sticking, fetid odor, durian has become a fruit so notorious that graphic designers have to design special notices to ban this thorny delight – mostly placed in five star hotels. The smell of a durian that’s still un-cracked can hang around for days inside an elevator or similar small space. If you put durian fruits in a fridge without being properly plastic-wrapped, chances are your veggies, chocolate bars, and bottles of milk will be durian-flavored for weeks. Nevertheless, durian is much loved by Indonesians. Families, relatives, and friends gather together to crack around ten durians at once, and go wild over them. Using bare hands, they taste each fruit one by one, compare the flavor of each in detail, and stop only when they are really full – of durians, and laughter. As soap is useless to get rid of the odour, durian eaters will place an empty shell of the fruit under running water, then rub their hands inside – the most effective way to neutralize the smell of their hands.