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More than 500 students and teachers were evacuated from a university in Melbourne, Australia, as a result of a smell initially suspected to be gas.
But it turned out the "gas" that students smelt at a Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology library was a rotting durian found in a cupboard.
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Durians are a prized fruit in South East Asia with a sweet and creamy flesh, but their smell can take some getting used to.
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University in Melbourne, Australia Evacuated Due to Rotting Fruit
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(Score: 2) by canopic jug on Tuesday May 01 2018, @04:49AM (1 child)
They're apparently close enough that I've confused them. I've had both custard apples and cherimoyas both fresh and shipped and just put the differences down to that, bad translations of names, and different farms. Bananas are like that, even discounting the many varieties. There are many varieties, all exquisite when fresh, but bad otherwise when shipped. In contrast to the fresh ones, the ones you get in most places are flavorless and woody.
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(Score: 4, Informative) by Pav on Tuesday May 01 2018, @08:06AM
I grew up in northern Australia (Charters Towers, Queensland), and the old man next door had a soursop tree, and we had a couple of custard apple trees. The custard apples are very sweet... like a baked apple with the creaminess of a very ripe banana, but soursops have the added dimension of acidity which I appreciated. They're also MASSIVE... one kilogram, some approaching two kilograms.
BTW, monstera deliciosa are also a very interesting tropical fruit. They'll stab you in the face if they aren't quite ripe, but when ripe they're amazing. [wikipedia.org]