Posted on 06/23/2020 9:20:07 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Police, firefighters and emergency services were called to a post office in the Bavarian town of Schweinfurt on Saturday after staff noticed the smell coming from a package.
...The entire building was evacuated, with around 60 employees forced to leave, before the package was carefully examined.
“A total of 12 postal workers who complained of nausea had to be taken care of on site,”
Six ambulances, five first-responder cars and two emergency vehicles attended the incident. Three fire departments were also involved.
The fruit was eventually delivered to its intended recipient, a 50-year-old Schweinfurt resident.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
Ooof. Ive been able for the most part to avoid that. Never again.
The closest I would come to that would be when my step-grandfather made something that he claimed came from the old country. In his case that would have been Bavaria though I didn’t see or find evidence of any such thing there so maybe they were kicked out for making it. He would save up all the odd slivers of meat (that last little weird outside heel of ham, the nubbin end of a summer sausage, etc) in a milk carton in the fridge and they would lay there and get funny and sort of dried out. Eventually he would have enough and then he would intentionally spoil a gallon of milk. He would make a ball of curd and smash it around the meat slice creating a patty of sorts. After heavily peppering it he would cook it on the tin roof in summer for two or three days. He would eat it while drinking a beet wine straight from the jug that still had the bread yeast in there doing its work. He was ridiculously strong right up to the day he died so maybe there was some sort of magic in that. The closest thing Ive ever heard of (and seen but not eaten) is some kind of intentionally spoiled dried butter cheese thing that some Mongolians make in a box above their yurt lintel. If there is any connection between those things then it must be a recipe originating deep in the well of time.
I have to admit though that there is a beerkase sold around here that I occasionally buy. It has both of the delicious aromas of unwashed feet and rotting flesh in one food! I rather enjoy it especially with pickled meats but its enough to make most people cry.
If its the same popular candy Im thinking of then you experienced the correct flavor just in a very mild and sweetened form. There are a kind of durian cookies (blonde Oreo w/durian frosting) sold some places that you would rather enjoy. Just opening the lid on the plastic jar it comes in makes the wife scream even though its very mild. I kind of wonder if there isn’t something in it that not everyone can smell and that’s what makes the difference.
“It’s supposed to taste like diced garlic and caramel poured into whipped cream.”
I’ve been cooking since I was 12 years old and got serious about it 25 years ago. In all that time that is the first I’ve ever heard or read about that flavor combination. It is so bizarre as to be intriguing.
Ya, see, youre the kind of person that probably enjoys durian and just doesn’t know it yet. Your Asian grocer has a couple but they aren’t up by the other fresh fruit. Its in the freezer case to both maintain freshness and control smell. I imagine youll have to buy a whole one which can be a bit expensive but Im pretty sure that youll like it even if its just to say you had it once.
I’ve been in over 100+ Vietnamese homes over the years and found that even after the owners moved out and the house was vacant the stench from fish sauce was overwhelming.
A few were smarter than the rest and had a stove in the attached garage for cooking the stinky stuff.
Rorchach. I thought those were Barbara Streisands boobs.
Sounds kind of yucky, but very, VERY interesting.
Maybe there is some benefit in the good bacteria formed.
Some say cultured bacteria such as Acidophilus provides good bacteria to the stomach and helps everything function better.
LOL!!
Which, if gravity and age have done their jobs properly, are probably somewhere around hip level by now. I almost pity James Brolin. But he married her. Ha!
One of the world’s largest and rarest flowering structures, the corpse flower is a pungent plant that blooms rarely and only for a short time.
We drove up to the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe Illinois a couple of times as one was about to bloom.
Close but never happened.
Fish with an ammoniacal tang!
How does that compare to Natto?
Durian fruit...Smells like Hell; Tastes like Heaven
It’s so bad, you have to smuggle it onto airplanes from the durian growing centers to Manila
Some Shell employees described the reasoning behind placing what they called the ‘Nigerian Oven’ on the upper deck of oil support vessels chartered to support drilling operations—incompatible food odors.
“How does that compare to Natto?”
Not familiar with Natto, but pedaek is made from fermented freshwater fish.
Some have described it as fish jello...................
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.