Odourless Durians To Hit The Market

[sunshine51]

Durian Pancakes anybody??? Look here...

http://durian.cc/how-to-make-durian-pancake.php#

I love durians...right at the point just before you must toss em into

the rubbish....ahhhhh...reminds me of my favourite trainers after a

hot & humid day's exercise of 16oz curls at Swampies mixed

with the aroma of me day old skivvies. Kinda like eating a cream

puff in a girls locker room bathed in the scent of head cheese!

Mind you some time ago in Hong Kong at old Kai Tak airport

a 747 cargo bird broke down with a load of durians inside it

during the summertime...thing sat well away from the terminal

in the sun for about a month or so...or until the CAA found

somebody brave enough to open up the plane and dispose

of the "rotten fruit". You could smell em for a few kilometers

upwind!

[jcw]

Durian pancakes, actually look nice. They are out of season at the moment though.

[soomak]

Is this a genetically modified form of the natural fruit?

I'm actually eating some very ripe durian right now as I write; it's very rich and creamy, like eating cake. It's undoubtedly an intriguing fruit.

It's most likely not genetically modified (I doubt if anywhere in Thailand they have the technology for modifying genes).

What they do, and this has been done for 10,000 years at least, is selective breeding and crossbreeding of plants, i.e. selecting the trees with the least smelling fruit and breeding them, or in other cases taking two varieties of trees with favorable features and crossbreeding them.

[Tywais]

(I doubt if anywhere in Thailand they have the technology for modifying genes).

You'd be wrong. I work at a university research lab that does it regularly.

[ManInSurat]

"Oh, great a tasteless and odourless version of a fruit that is reknown for its taste and odour" - Said no one, ever, in the history of man.

(Talk about cutting the "King of Fruits" nuts off.)

"I'll have the odourless durian, please." - said no Thai customer ever.

I personally find the smell of cigarette smoke much more offensive and far more ubiquitous in Thailand than the occasional waft of durian.

Edited November 12, 2012 by ManInSurat

[BEENTHEREDONETHAT]

Durians that don't smell, no $hit that is good news.