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...durian flavoured ice cream but the taste bears no resemblance at all as far as I'm concerned.
I am so happy I found this thread. Although I am dying with desire for all the other fruits that the name durian brings to mind. For example, Bingley, have you tasted a fruit named "marang" (that is what it's called in southern Philippines). It is like a small jackfruit and the inside is packed with pips, the size of an almond covered with sweet, soft ,creamy jackfruit-like flesh.
I tasted durian ice-cream and if you like to get a glimpse at what some people are raving about this is the way to go for those faint-hearted ones.
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I'm not sure, but it sounds like soursop, also known as custard apple. The Indonesian name is sirsak . But jackfruit (Indonesian nangka ) is completely different inside.
Nangka is a green knobbly fruit about double the size of an American football (you do not want to be under the tree when one drops off). Inside are lots of rubbery bright yellow pouches each containing a seed about the size of a peach stone. These pouches are what you eat. Raw they are delicious. Cooked, I find them revolting, they congeal into a pulsating purplish-brown goo. This is the basis for the Yogyakarta delicacy of gudeg, which I have never been able to bring myself to try.
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Just last weekend I had the immense pleasure of learning how to make strawberry-rhubarb jelly. Mom said when she was a girl her grandmother served rhubarb (loaded with sugar, of course)as a dessert. Quite delicious.
Bananas have always been another favorite on buttered toast with sugar sprinkled on top. MMMMMMM!
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I while reading a book last week I came across the word Durians. If not for this thread, I wouldn't have known what they were.
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Like you, ladymoon, I had no idea what Durians were until I read this thread. Unfortunately the thread, as is the wont of foo-threads, went downhill very fast, degenerating into the "sandwich thread of blasted memory" - I pray that its current resurrection will be brief, before the curious urge to start swapping recipes enslaves ayleurs anew. 
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They sell durians a few blocks from my house in Chinatown, and I've had them a couple of times. I happen to like them, although a Thai woman I worked with once claimed that you have to buy them fresh and ripe off the tree. I disagree with Bingley, though. They stink--and only when you open them. And the reactions you get opening them can be hillarious. People literally flee the room. Durian shakes are lovely. The fruits make wonderful holiday gifts, especially to the unsuspecting.
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NOW you're talking of a dish fit for a kingBut, of course!...none other than Elvis himself was notorious for his mass consumption of banana and peanut butter sandwiches (or was it banana and marshmallow sandwiches?)...Aw, probably both!  And durians are new to me even though I spent a couple of years working as a produce clerk in a supermarket..this was back in the early '70's, and I discovered a fruit we handled then that I haven't seen since called Ugly Fruit. It was a sort of large grapefruit/tangerine hybrid with lumpy, easily-peelable skin (thus "ugly"), and was the most delicious citrus I have ever tasted! And these are probably half-sandwiches, but I love peanut butter on sliced cucumbers, apples, and pears (and on celery stalks) spritzed with cinnamon, nutmeg, and honey. And, now that I've gotten myself hungry again after that donkey snot description, I think I'll break for dinner! 
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Ugly Fruit
I saw Ugli Fruit™ in the store a few months ago. It's spelled "Ugli" presumably so that it can have the trademark symbol next to it (which it really does, I didn't add that in!).
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Bean says, It's spelled "Ugli" Yes!...it's been so long I forgot! Thanks for reminding me!
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Banana and mustard. Nothing else (well, bread helps), just banana and mustard. Preferably an interesting mustard, not that wimpy yellow salad stuff.
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