When Jeebus and Fanny came to visit us a couple weeks ago we took them to the local mega Asian grocery store (Super H Mart in Carrollton, Texas). I had forgotten my camera and so I dropped my husband and his family off at the store and drove back home to retrieve it. Apparently while I was on the road getting my camera Fanny discovered the oddly shaped, thorny fruits sitting in the freezer as you walk in the store: Durian.
Now my husband and I have passed that freezer many times wondering what the funky looking fruits inside were. Never once had we gotten the courage to actually purchase one. Fanny on the other hand couldn’t contain her excitement over finding the fruit and apparently it’s really good price. So she bought one and made us late getting home to pick the kids up from school.
Then we set it on the kitchen counter and curiously watched it for several hours until it thawed out.
The next day, Fanny took a sharp kitchen knife to the durian and carefully began slicing it along invisible seams like a surgeon. The Mother Trucker and I watched in utter disgust as she opened it and began removing the creamy yellow flesh sitting inside pockets as if she were performing surgery.
I mean seriously the fruit looks like and has the texture of raw chicken fat!
And the smell wasn’t much better–like a cross between Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit chewing gum and rotten onions. So I mean if you like onion flavored chewing gum, then this is the fruit for you. Apparently, the smell is so bad that in some Asian countries Durian is banned from public transportation.
How in the world she wanted to go back for MORE is beyond me. But she thinks it’s the best.fruit.ever.
Fried chicken will never look the same way to me again.
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