For a guy who won't eat walnuts, I don't trust this guy's sense of taste.
Not that I want to try durian.

I've commented on some other durian videos here before, so I won't ramble too much. Suffice it to say that after almost 6 years of living in Thailand, I'm a pretty major durian fan. I came around to accepting or even liking the taste pretty quickly, but now I even like the smell -- which I found neutral to slightly negative at first.

I wonder if it has some sort of "taster/non-taster" compound in it, but more directed at smell. I'd say 80%+ of the westerners that I know here hate durian, with only 1 in 5 or 10 coming around to appreciating it, like me. Amongst native Thais, I'd say the ratio is more like 60% like it and 40% don't. That seems to hint to me that there might be a genetic root cause.

One more thing that this brings to mind is people's descriptions of the smell. I can't give a good description that compares it to anything, and I never really agree with any that I hear. I certainly don't agree with fish, shit, feet, or any of the other descriptors in the video here. It is sort of similar to people's reactions to cilantro/coriander. I love cilantro, but lots of people that I know hate it and describe it as tasting "like soap", which I don't get at all. Perhaps that is some other genetic taster/non-taster type of thing.

Moving this video to Grimm's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

I've had durian many times. It's really not as bad as he's making it seem. He's totally making a show for the camera... selling ads. I call bs.

This is such crap. I'm white as a sheet of paper and I regular buy Durian from the asian market. When i traveled to Indonesia I had many fresh Durian.

For all the odd MAN MADE stuff he ate I'm surprised he can't handle a piece of fresh fruit.

I don't know why you think this is bs....this guy makes a living eating the weirdest shit he can find (weird for westerners) and takes pride in the fact that he will try anything at least once.

This is not the only thing he has not liked...there are several dishes that he thought tasted terrible. This is the only one (I've seen) that he could not keep down.

Read what MilkmanDan said above....just because you like it is not evidence that everyone else should like it or be able to stand it.

But I guess you could be right...this could be all an act for a grab at some ratings....I guess?