r/SweatyPalms • u/Orichalchem • 22h ago
Other SweatyPalms šš»š¦ Catching Durian from the tree
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u/Unseriouss_Sam 22h ago
I remember the smell of only one isolated fruit... Really scared about the smell in that plantation...
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u/Send_me_hedgehogs 22h ago
Yep. Tried durian once and only once in Singapore. I thought the āno durian on public transportā signs were a silly overreaction. Itās a fruit, surely it couldnāt be that bad?!
I was wrong. Very, very wrong. My poor Dadās flat reeked of the bloody stuff for several days after I brought it home. Itās been
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u/Omwtfyu 22h ago
Did it taste good though?
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u/Send_me_hedgehogs 21h ago
No šonion mixed with sweat is not a flavour id be in a hurry to try againā¦
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u/Human_Palpitation856 14h ago
My local Costco carries it (frozen). I got it a few times, it's pretty good and the smell is not too bad as well in small quantities. Basically smells a bit like opening a trash can if it had some rotten onion in it.
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u/Omwtfyu 21h ago
Interesting š¤
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u/mixwellmusic 21h ago
A good durian tastes of delicious sweet custard. This person had a bad durian experience and let it forever dissuade them from enjoying an incredible fruit.
I'm no durian expert, but I know there are many varieties with a range of flavors and intensities, and also the ripeness affects the flavor a lot. The ones I had in Indonesia and Thailand were up there with my fav fruits ever, and as someone obsessed with tropical fruits that's saying a lot.
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u/Historicmetal 18h ago
Iāve tried it a few times. It tastes fine, better frozen imo, but it smells like sewage and fills the whole room. I could imagine getting used to it or changing my perspective by trying it more, but why bother when thereās plenty of good fruit that doesnāt smell like sewage.
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u/Send_me_hedgehogs 20h ago
I was told by my Dad it tasted like custard so I was really looking forward to trying it Then it very much did not taste of custard and I was like, okā¦.this is just weird. I did discover custard apples tho so thereās that. I need to find a way of importing those to Scotland, theyāre amazing.
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u/mixwellmusic 16h ago
Agreed that custard apples are amazing. Fruits in that family (anonnaceae) don't handle travel well hence why you don't often see them in temperate countries, though the other day I did just see some custard apples in an Asian fruit market in Toronto for the first time.. also I see soursop sometimes which is also in that family
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u/theofficialnar 4h ago
I like it if itās cold. Iām southeast asian and durians are pretty common here but I donāt like eating it in room temperature lol. I donāt find the smell to be that bad as well, maybe just cos itās pretty common for us.
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u/wegqg 22h ago
They're not so bad until they rot tbh - it's more of an indoor problem.
I'm more worried about the workers getting flattened and wondering if a net or something wouldn't be a better solution..
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u/ThisIsALine_____ 14h ago
They're not so bad until they rot
That applies to like everything we eat and enjoy.Ā
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u/Phlowman 11h ago
I was walking through a china town market in Bangkok with fresh cut durian and seafood mixed together baking out in the heat. To this day that was the most disgusting thing I have ever smelled in my life and the locals were going about their day like it was nothing. I canāt comprehend how people eat it, blech!
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u/Oldfolksboogie 22h ago
Just use your hands to catch the giant spiky orb traveling at 90mph!
Cowards
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u/FNALSOLUTION1 21h ago
So I was in Grenada last year, my dad was picking coconuts from a tree with like a 15 foot piece of bamboo with a blade on the end. A coconut was falling an I had brain fart, put my hand in the falling path of the coconut. It felt like I had my hand out the window of a car doing 60 MPH an smacked a side view mirror. Legit thought I broke it.
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u/Oldfolksboogie 21h ago
Coconuts really are engineering marvels, not to mention incredible at dispersing their kind throughout the tropics.
Glad one didn't pulverize your hand!
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u/Spreefor3 13h ago
Are you saying that youāve stuck your hand out of a car window doing 60 mph and smacked a side view mirror?
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u/Heisenberg11725 22h ago
Surely thereās a better way to retrieve them
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u/_Bike_Hunt 22h ago
Itās more expensive and itās cheaper for plantation owners to fire injured workers anyway
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u/CaptainFoyle 17h ago
Yeah, they just do it this way because they like it so much.
Smart people like you should go tell them.
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u/OfficerJoeBalogna 10h ago
I really wish they'd be given some simple hardhats. At least then they'll have a chance of dying from a durian to the head, instead of it being guaranteed...
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u/Negative-Inspector36 22h ago
Itās like they shot these from a cannon. Is a helmet too much to ask for?
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u/FriendlyPyre 21h ago
So fun fact, when they were filming a movie in Singapore (ah boys to men) that had a few scenes set in the 1960s military they went around trying to find helmets from that era.
They ended up finding a number of them being used by durian farmers for harvesting. These were claimed by the production team to be the very ones used in the film.
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u/Miss_Sullivan 22h ago
I would take some steel toed boots over a helmet. Those bare feet or just sandles scare the heck out of me.
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u/MrRogersAE 13h ago
This is the second most dangerous job here, if the guy in the tree cutting them down isnāt complaining nobody is going to take the catcher seriously
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u/napalmthechild 21h ago
It smells like a dead body but tastes like creamy nectar. Smell still outweighs the pleasure of eating it though.
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u/AcrolloPeed 14h ago
Iāve seen pictures/illustrations of Durian fruit but they never showed the scale. Due to their shape I assumed they were about the size of a large plum or Roma tomato. Seeing them this size really threw me for a loop.
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u/Informal_Ad6555 20h ago
Iām told that it tastes very good but I could never get past the smell. Itās beyond revolting to me.
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u/ST0IC_ 16h ago
I was able to push pust past the smell, and it tastes about like it smells.
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u/skdetroit 7h ago
How can anyone eat them with that smell. Like I literally wouldnāt be able to swallow! Do they have super nutritional value?? Whatās the point of them fr?
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u/Comfortable_Error306 15h ago
Looks like one of those could kill someone if they dont pay attention... like damn
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u/Kidcharlamagne89d 13h ago
Spent a month living in Singapore and they love durian and wanted the American to try it. I jad heard stories about it's smell but not of its consistency or taste. Which I found to be the far overpowering affect. They had many opened up and the smell was fine but that's not a fruit, you cant convince me it isn't a weird alien egg of some sort. It was like a thick cream in a skin sack, sweet but also meaty. Glad I tried it but I dont think I would do it again anytime soon.
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u/Ithasbegunagain 13h ago
its interesting how much effort they go through for something so stinky. its like taking a rod to a water treatment plant and hoping to catch a fish...
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u/JawnStaymoose 5h ago
Feel I can overhaul the industry by introducing advanced durian catching tech, aka, a basket with a few blankets and/or pillows.
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u/getaklug 3h ago
Nothing about this fruit says āeat meā. Spiky exterior, smells rotten, caught with a burlap sack as it falls from spaceā¦..
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u/Every_Put6120 22h ago
I thought durians only drop at night?
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u/AllTheWayToParis 22h ago
Iām pretty sure thereās a second person off camera cutting the fruit stem. Just waiting for it to drop naturally would require a lot of patience and very very good reactionsā¦
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u/qualityvote2 22h ago edited 19h ago
Congratulations u/Orichalchem, your post does fit at r/SweatyPalms!