Now, oddly enough, I am a big durian fan. It is a fruit, roughly the size and shape of an American football, and it is found in Southeast Asia. The outside is green and spikey, and on the inside, there is a custard-like subtance found around seeds like avocado pits. I enjoyed them in Malaysia, where a classmate's family had a fruit farm.
There is one major negative - the odor. Many Westerners find this hard to get past. It smells something like rotten onions, but worse. I bought some frozen durian here in a Vietnamese grocery, and it stunk up my freezer. A small price to pay, I thought.
Do a search on the word "durian" on the board and see the divergence of opinion you will find.
I would not put this in the same category as haggis, though. Some things are just better left to the dogs.
