One of my favorite things to do with my spare time is find webpages created and maintained by ordinary people with some extraordinary enthusiasm for some ordinary thing. So I was delighted to find this site on the stinkiest fruit in the world, durian, in which the enthusiast argues that durian is not only The King of the Fruits, a view apparently widely held among lovers of durian, but is in fact The God of Fruits.
Amongst the new items to be found there: an item alerting readers to the existence of "FAKE DURIAN" (capitalization not mine), a link to durian-themed cartoons, a new poem added to the durian art gallery, and so on. What better way to spend your lunch hour, I ask?
So read on, if you dare step into the world of FRUIT ADVOCACY.
(I picked up some durian wine in chinatown once, by the way, and let me tell you it really does stink.)
Posted by Alan Hogue at September 9, 2005 01:04 PMWhat a delight! I had my first durian at a dinner party six months ago, brought by a fan who'd brought it in his luggage from Sri Lanka. I'll pass the link on.
Posted by: Ben Brumfield at September 9, 2005 04:09 PMThere are signs at the entrances to the Singapore underground railway - spiky things with a big red cross through them, "No!".
Funny people these orientals, I thought. Such hostility to the humble hedgehog.
Posted by: Nigee at September 12, 2005 01:46 PM