Word: durian
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WILL IT LAST? Wake up and smell the durian...
...there's the Vietnamese dragonfruit, a crunchy cactus that one gourmand called a "psychedelic pink-and-lime-green hand grenade." Snapple is using it in a new "smart drink" line called Elements, but the real thing is also "going to be tremendous," says Meyer. Not as promising is the durian of Southeast Asian, which the farmer says "smells like a toilet but tastes wonderful." Um, thanks, but we'll stick to contemplating our navel oranges...
...credit), by which many a Malay farmer buys seed for his next crop. More ominous still, the conflict, at first only an urban affair, is spreading to the countryside. Chinese-owned pickup trucks have ceased collecting the fishing catch from the Strait of Malacca. The eagerly awaited season for durian, a large and delectable strong-scented fruit grown only in Asia, is now at its peak. In any other year, Malay farmers would make small fortunes on this rare fruit. Last week durians were rotting by the roadside because Chinese trucks were not sent for them-as they...