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gas or durian?
this is funny! people think the smell of durian is leaking gas!
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Foul-sm ... story.html
what's your first impression when you smell durian for the first time? toxic or foul or pleasure?
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Foul-sm ... story.html
what's your first impression when you smell durian for the first time? toxic or foul or pleasure?
Too funny. It just smells like something rotting to me. However...
There are some plants in the entrance area of our condo which give off a smell very similar to the natural gas used in the UK for heating and cooking. (I know, the gas itself doesn't smell, so they add something to it so that you can more easily detect it when there's a leak). When we first moved here I was convinced there was a gas leak and kept telling the security guards to let the management people know. Then my wife found out about the plants and told them to just ignore the foolish Englishman.
There are some plants in the entrance area of our condo which give off a smell very similar to the natural gas used in the UK for heating and cooking. (I know, the gas itself doesn't smell, so they add something to it so that you can more easily detect it when there's a leak). When we first moved here I was convinced there was a gas leak and kept telling the security guards to let the management people know. Then my wife found out about the plants and told them to just ignore the foolish Englishman.
Be careful what you wish for
Fresh one tastes to me like a mixture of onion and acetone but I still like it (fresh) from time to time. I don't like anything already processed.
For interested:
http://phys.org/news/2012-11-scientists ... ruits.html
You are very close. It's a similar class(es) of sulfur based compounds.Mi Amigo wrote:(I know, the gas itself doesn't smell, so they add something to it so that you can more easily detect it when there's a leak)
For interested:
http://phys.org/news/2012-11-scientists ... ruits.html
Didn't this happen in c.1970s? Mains gas, for cooking was odourless. So if you left an unlit hob on you risked suffocation and/or blowing your house up, so they added an odour to it.Mi Amigo wrote:... a smell very similar to the natural gas used in the UK for heating and cooking. (I know, the gas itself doesn't smell, so they add something to it so that you can more easily detect it when there's a leak).
Re: gas or durian?
Gas? Really? The thing I generally think of is a sweeter smelling Garlic. I used to live near (and drove through) Gilroy, CA., the garlic capital of the world, so it reminds me of the way that town smelled.durain wrote:this is funny! people think the smell of durian is leaking gas!
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Foul-sm ... story.html
what's your first impression when you smell durian for the first time? toxic or foul or pleasure?
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A few years ago, came through Heathrow with a reasonably big tupperware stuffed with durian. I had frozen it, cling flimed it with several layers, masking taped it several layers, covered it with newspapers several layers of it lastly stuffed it into DD's puffer jacket from Pradamark (aka Primark), rescued my suitcase, of course those sniffer dogs are around, he sniffed and sniffed and lefft. Got into the lift with the cabbie and someone shouted loudly, someone in here farted



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Harrods used to stock Msian durians, chinatown only stock Thai ones. Not the same lah. And the priceJR8 wrote:Good one. Something there would be negative value in trying to explain.
You can buy durian in London as well you knowBut, yes, most people would have no idea what it is, or how it stinks...

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