People Try To Eat The World’s Smelliest Fruit And Their Reactions Are Hilarious

Eating plenty of fruit is part of any good diet, but it’s a safe bet that whoever drew up the first food pyramid didn’t have durians in mind — and would have sooner punted one out the window than give it a chance. These brave souls prove exactly why. They don’t just have to be in the same room as it; they actually have to try and eat it.

The emphasis is on “try”, of course. Instead of bursting with sweet juices as any decent fruit would, the durian’s insides look more like a mass of expired cheese half-melted by a broken microwave. Looking at it from the safety of an online video is bad enough; watching people struggle to eat it is even worse. To be fair, it’s not as if that should be surprising. Any fruit whose evolutionary track left it covered in spikes is probably trying to say something important.