Project Runaway

British novelist Anthony Burgess writes that eating durian is “like eating sweet raspberry blancmange in the lavatory.”
definition of blancmange: sweet almond-flavored milk pudding thickened with gelatin or cornstarch; usually molded
Chef Andrew Zimmern compares the taste to “completely rotten, mushy onions.”
Anthony Bourdain, while a lover of durian, relates his encounter with the fruit as thus: [...]