Not depicted: the smell.
People eat this?
It smells, and tastes, like someone marinated bananas in used motor oil.
I try not to shit talk any food from a culture not my own, especially as a dumb American, but this is ... a challenging aroma. I can kinda see underneath it to where something good might have lived once, and maybe it didn't survive whatever process was involved in its construction.
But it is nonetheless a challenging aroma, and if the fresh product is just this, but stronger, I now intimately understand why its consumption is literally banned in some places.
My nose burns.
This was hours ago, I only opened one, and I still keep thinking there's a gas leak in the apartment before I remember that no, it's just the fucking durian again.
I've heard Durians usually taste good, but... yeah, they do smell like that. That isn't you being weird or American or anything. It's purportedly banned from public places in Singapore and from being transported on many airlines specifically because of how smelly it is.
