Durians

I finally understand why Caucasians hate the smell of durian.

From wikipedia:

British novelist Anthony Burgess writes that eating durian is “like eating sweet raspberry blancmange in the lavatory.”

Andrew Zimmern compares the taste to “completely rotten, mushy onions.”

Anthony Bourdain, while a lover of durian, relates his encounter with the fruit as thus: “Its taste can only be described as…indescribable, something you will either love or despise. …Your breath will smell as if you’d been French-kissing your dead grandmother.”

Travel and food writer Richard Sterling says “… its odor is best described as pig-shit, turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock. It can be smelled from yards away.”

Other comparisons have been made with the civet, sewage, stale vomit, skunk spray and used surgical swabs.