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Mysterioii:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on August 22, 2012, 02:42:19 pm ---Durian looks an awful lot like sour sop but wiki doesn't indicate they're related.  Loves me some sour sop ice cream though.

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Haven't heard of sour sop before.... I checked it out, it does physically resemble durian.  According to wikipedia it tastes something like:


--- Quote ---...a combination of strawberry and pineapple with sour citrus flavor notes contrasting with an underlying creamy flavor reminiscent of coconut or banana.
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Where as from what I understand the general consensus about durian is that it tastes like:


--- Quote ---ass.
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All kidding aside it's usually described as smelling like dirty diapers, but since I've got a two-year-old generating fresh examples daily I've got to honestly say that I wouldn't go THAT far.  It doesn't remotely smell good though.  A lot of hotels forbid people from bringing it into the lobby to prevent people from offending other guests.  Hard to describe the taste... it pretty much tastes like how it smells.  Kind of like Satan's ear wax.  Creamy, though.

Some people have apparently been killed by them falling out of trees.... the trees are high, the fruit are large and heavy, with that hard spiky exterior. 

Gray_Area:
Corn syrup....margarine......all these things are almost a hundred years old. Just took them a while to get dug in.



--- Quote from: Mysterioii on August 22, 2012, 02:50:32 pm ---Where as from what I understand the general consensus about durian is that it tastes like:


--- Quote ---ass.
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Hahahahah. Only a third-world up-bringing could infuse a taste for some things, eh?

And there isn't sand in India and the far east to get into the food.


@SNAAKE: Oh. No mexicanos hanging round the HD here. Half the staff are hispanic, though.

SNAAKE:
then you live in a mexican-free zone lol

every morning on my way to work I see about 30 of them ready to work. they are standing around the dunkin donunts and grocery store. idea is, someone may have some kind of construction gig and they'd just pick random people for the job. thats gotta be terrible. waiting hours then have like nothing to do. one has to wonder...do they make any money at all ???

Gray_Area:

--- Quote from: SNAAKE on August 25, 2012, 01:50:27 am ---then you live in a mexican-free zone lol

every morning on my way to work I see about 30 of them ready to work. they are standing around the dunkin donunts and grocery store. idea is, someone may have some kind of construction gig and they'd just pick random people for the job. thats gotta be terrible. waiting hours then have like nothing to do. one has to wonder...do they make any money at all ???

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Actually, no, not at all. But most of them are at the mall (all day) and Walmart (all night) shopping. Then you have the anti-loitering codes that keep even the bums from selling papers. (Which is fine, because I don't read the paper.)

MaxVolume:

--- Quote from: Gray_Area on August 22, 2012, 04:39:34 pm ---Corn syrup....margarine......all these things are almost a hundred years old. Just took them a while to get dug in.

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Educate yourself:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hfcs

It's not simple "almost a hundred years old" corn syrup, as ADM would have you believe.  It's specifically modified, and was MORE expensive than importing cane sugar until ADM lobbied to raise tariffs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hfcs#Use_as_a_replacement_for_sugar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archer_Daniels_Midland#Agricultural_subsidies

Clear enough?

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