Thorny love.

[layne67]

Isn't this amazing? A heart-shaped durian? I bet the owner wouldn't want to sell nor eat it. A very ong durian *g*

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[ckll.livejournal.com]

What is this exactly?

[layne67.livejournal.com]

It's a fruit. What people from this part of the world call the King of Fruit. It's round in shape so the one in the pic is very unusual indeed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian

[ckll.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen it before, lol
Thanks!

[melyanna-65.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I remember I was so fascinated when you posted something about durians, but this one is amazing!!

Lots of hugs, my sweetie!

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Heheh, it brings new meaning to the phrase 'a thorny love affair', doesn't it?

If you ever make it to my country, that would be one of the first things that I'm going to buy you *g*

[i-o-r-h-a-e-l.livejournal.com]

*saves*

This could make a scary valentine's card. :D

Every rose heart has its thorn. Heheh.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Hey, now that's a great idea! I wonder what the insides are like. Wouldn't it be great if they are heart-shaped, too?

[i-o-r-h-a-e-l.livejournal.com]

ROTFL! That's not possible! Hahaha.

But one could always wish.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

I watched 'Alias' just now and they have a character called Gordon Dean!

[i-o-r-h-a-e-l.livejournal.com]

Huh! Slashing them?

:D

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Of course NOT! Ewww ...

Dean belongs to one person and one person only.

*huffs*

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Btw, have you read this? It's heart-meltingly angsty and sweet and so very loving. Dean is sick in it!

http://setissma.livejournal.com/539231.html?view=4701279#t4701279

[i-o-r-h-a-e-l.livejournal.com]

No, I haven't. Thank you, Layne! :D

[aredhelebenesse.livejournal.com]

I had to look it up and now I think that's a special gift to those who don't refuse to eat these fruits. It looks heavily symbolic as if it wants to say "Love me how I am, with all my spines and the weird smell!" ;D Very interesting! It looks to me like a huge heart shaped chestnut.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

"Love me how I am, with all my spines and the weird smell!"

It would be a perfect gift from someone who thinks he/she is imperfect!

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

Eeeee! Heart-shaped anything is awesome! :-)

[layne67.livejournal.com]

I immediately thought of Khalil when I saw that pic!

[munibunny.livejournal.com]

Wow! That is really cool! Never seen one of those before... looks spiky like a pineapple. What does it taste like?

[layne67.livejournal.com]

yes, it's very spiky, even more so than a pineapple because the thorns are hard. You can be seriously injured if one fall on your head from a tree.

Its smell has been described from rotten eggs to mouldy cheese and some even have likened the smell to a woman's private parts! Heh.

It's an acquired taste actually. I like it fine though I'm not really a fan because it gives me sore throat, headaches and indigestions if i take too much.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Oh, and it tastes like custard.

[munibunny.livejournal.com]

I was just imagining how it might traumatize someone to be sitting under a tree with their significant other only to watch them be knocked unconscious by that heart-shaped thing. :P

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Hee hee. Believe me, no one would want to sit under a durian tree.

*grins grins grins*

I found this article which described the smell and taste of durians perfectly.

Inside there are 5 compartments containing the creamy-white, yellowish, pinkish or orange-colored flesh . There are some odorless cultivars but the flesh of the common durian has a powerful odor which reminded the plant explorer, Otis W. Barrett, of combined cheese, decayed onion and turpentine, or "garlic, Limburger cheese and some spicy sort of resin" but he said that after eating a bit of the pulp "the odor is scarcely noticed." The nature of the flesh is more complex-in the words of Alfred Russel Wallace (much-quoted), it is "a rich custard highly flavored with almonds . . . but there are occasional wafts of flavour that call to mind cream cheese, onion-sauce, sherry wine and other incongruous dishes. Then there is a rich glutinous smoothness in the pulp which nothing else possesses, but which adds to its delicacy. It is neither acid, nor sweet, nor juicy; yet it wants none of these qualities, for it is in itself perfect. Barrett described the flavor as "triplex in effect, first a strong aromatic taste, followed by a delicious sweet flavor, then a strange resinous or balsam-like taste of exquisite but persistent savor." An American chemist working at the U.S. Rubber Plantations in Sumatra in modem times, was at first reluctant to try eating durian, was finally persuaded and became enthusiastic, declaring it to be "absolutely delicious", something like "a concoction of ice cream, onions, spices, and bananas, all mixed together."

Frome here :

http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/durian_ars.html

[shirebound]

Awwww.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

It's cute, isn't it? Not what you'd expect from what is otherwise a "fierce-looking" fruit :DD

[suzy-74.livejournal.com]

Wow. How cute! :D

[layne67.livejournal.com]

A perfect Valentine's gift. Or not. LOL

[honeyandvinegar.livejournal.com]

Oooh... is that some sort of puffer fish or urchin? How cool! Bet he could make a pretty penny, but--to PART with it! *thinks hard*!

[layne67.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

Durian is a fruit, Honey. A very delicious one, too!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian

[honeyandvinegar.livejournal.com]

Oh... shut up. :P:P:P! ;)

[lbilover.livejournal.com]

That is very cool! Is there any way to preserve it?

[layne67.livejournal.com]

No, not really. After a few days, a ripe durian would crack opened on its own and the insides would go bad quite fast if not eaten. Pity, isn't it?

[majblomma.livejournal.com]

Awww, how cool is that??! *g*

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Very cool, I thought. Considering how prickly a durian is! A prickly love ...

[kels450.livejournal.com]

Lol...that is absolutely brilliant! :D

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Nice to look at, isn't it? But it probably doesn't have more than 4 seeds inside. Though I'm sure the owner's not eating it, he'd probably just put it on display, for as long as possible. Pity there's no way a durian can be conserved, eh? *g*