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On 31 Jan 2003 23:08:07 -0800, Geoff Miller <geoffm@u1.netgate.net> wrote:
> 
> About a decade ago, somebody in alt.tasteless sent me a can of
> durian "puffs" (for lack of a more descriptive term) as a gag
> gift.  The durian fruit had been discussed in that newsgroup
> not long before. 

	Mr. Snippo was here.
> 
> When I opened the can, the odor was nothing remarkable, sort
> of oniony/vinegary.  And the pieces tasted like nothing so
> much as those little cocktail onions, the ones that are used
> in Gibsons or sold canned and mixed with peas by Green Giant
> or S&W or whoever it is.  I still have yet to really grasp
> why durian is such a big deal in the Far East.

	Obviously they were not that "Authentic". Maybe you
should have Lenore invite you round for a durian fest. Eat a
"fresh" frozen durian. My Danish wife used to refer to its odor as
"A badly kept men's urinal"

	Also, at the time you received the puffs, someone
mentioned the creative way they handled food theft at work. They
had a continual problem with people stealing frood from their
office. So they went to the local oriental market and bought a
pack of durian cookies. That night, they were taken, but they
never hjad a theft problem after that.

	Jeff Angus, also an alt.tasteless regular at that point
used to have a table at the TRW swapmeet. He used to keep an open
packet of durian cookies on his table. If people asked for a
cookie, he told them not to eat them as they were vile. But
cookie snatchers used to get a free lesson in manners. 

	Once I was standing beside him and chubby teenager girl
walked by with her father. Seeing what looked like food, she
grabbed a cookie and kept going. Three paces further on she had
the cookie in her mouth. Then she let out a howl and made a face.
Jeff just broke up.


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