Smelly fruit sparks airline alert

CNN ^ | Thursday, January 16, 2003 Posted: 4:30 PM HKT (0830 GMT) | CNN World News

[yonif]

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- A box of smelly tropical fruit sprinkled with carpet deodorizer sparked an aviation alert in Australia on Thursday.

A Virgin Blue flight from the eastern city of Brisbane was delayed by four hours after cargo handlers noticed a pungent smell coming from the plane's baggage hold.

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[flynhghr]

"I don't think in this climate we can be overzealous," he told reporters in Sydney > > That is were you are wrong. Overreactions occur every day at airports.

[freedomson]

Dang that dog looks humiliated.

[Publius]

They smell like sewer gas. Once you've taken a whiff, you never forget. Even though you want to.

[ArcLight]

I was just in Taiwan, where these are considered a delicacy. I never had the nerve to try any. Then again, I skipped the snake blood cocktails too...so I'm a wimp.

[Semper Paratus]

Was going to criticize the poster for defaming gays who don't shower.
(Not really)

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Only because it is wearing Wolverine colors.

[renosathug]

Terroristic fruit bump.

[Fithee]

I bought some Durian and triple bagged so I could kep it my little refrigerator at the Hilton in Singapore. The rooftop restaurant was glad to prepare it for me. I would never have dared to take it to an interior restaurant. It is truly a delicacy. It does not taste anything like it smells. I would say it is delicious. My associates could not bear the smell and complained so much I had to ask the waiter to take it back to the kitchen. I am sure the kitchen help devoured it.

[76834]

Now here is a real "smelly fruit" Wonder what he is doing in Australia???

[-YYZ-]

As soon as I saw that headline, I knew there'd be a durian involved in this story. Bizarre looking fruit, really does smell bad, but I've never tasted it.

[Andyman]

I used to live in Singapore, and once in a while people were killed when ripe durians fell off trees and hit them on the head. We once rode in a car behind a truck carrying a load of durains. We stopped and waited a few minutes, then pulled back into traffic. There is no way to properly describe the smell.

[dfwgator]

Guess they need training in how to defend themselves against fresh fruit.

[wonders]

Me too! I'd been warned they taste like they smell, no I never tried one.

Once in Phnom Penh, my roommate and I were walking home to our guest house and about two blocks away, began smelling this awful stench. We thought a septic tank had blown up or something. The stench grew stronger as we approached our guest house and we saw that everyone was fleeing the house as fast as they could run. Turned out the Bulgarians in one of the rooms had bought a durian, didn't know what to do with it, and had microwaved the thing until it exploded! That awful smell lingered for days.

[Bobibutu]

In Indonesia there is a saying "When the Durians go down - the sarongs go up"

Ate a lot of them in Thailand, Malaysia, S'pore and Indonesia...
back in the '60s and '70s...
YUM!

[-YYZ-]

So, what part of a durian is eaten, and which part of it is it that stinks so much?

[Mr. Mulliner]

I lived in Singapore for 3 years and quite quickly fell in love with durian. There they have a saying that durians "smell like hell, but taste like heaven."

I particularly liked the Thai durians when I was up there, but Singaporeans and Malaysians are clearly biased in favor of Malaysian durians because Thai durians are not strong enough for them.

I took an Australian lady out for her first taste of durian, although she was very reluctant due to the smell. But one bite and she said that it was the best thing she'd ever eaten in her life. High praise, huh?

[Mr. Mulliner]

What wimps! All they need is a little training in self-defense against fresh fruit.

[msru]

can you buy them in the US?