I love durian, an incredibly strange smelling fruit like foot odor, garlic, and onion. It tastes a little bit like the latter two, but also fruity and sweet and when eaten fresh, it is essentially a large pod of finger pudding (yes, I am borrowing that term from “finger jello”).
It sounds like this is its European counterpart.
I would liken it more to a baby diaper...an incredibly full baby diaper.
Nastiest thing I've ever smelled, but tasty, if you can get past that vomit-inducing odor.
My nephew lived in Bangkok for three years, and became acquainted with durian there. He loves the stuff, but alas, durian or durian products are seemingly not available in Oregon.
Having been introduced to this tasty fruit with the “tasteless smell on some Internet forum, imagine my surprise when, some 20 odd years ago a couple of them showed up in the fruit section of our local supermarket. I seem to recall looking up the price which was reported to be in the $20 range. When I went back a few days later they were both right where they were the week before so I bought one. I think I paid around $4.00 for it. Upon opening it up it had neither a very strong or offensive smell nor did it have much of any kind of taste, which I attribute to lack of freshness. That was the first and only time I've ever seen one in any grocery in my town
I also recall hearing stories about people bringing them on buses or into hotel rooms with the result that the areas in question were immediately emptied by passengers and guests loosing their lunch on the way out.
There was also a tale of a Brit who so missed the taste of the durian that he locked his house up and took a boat trip of several months (this being in the days of sailing ships) to travel half way around the world to have another taste.