Durian is an evil evil thing that should not have existed. If you watch any "Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern" on the Travel Channel that involves him and durian in the same location, watch him get ridiculously squicked out.

And I'm reminded when my mother would occasionally cook the odder dishes and I'm at home. ATM, she's making her version of kim-chee and the ingredients have me more often than not wrinkling my nose. Then there's Chinese medicine...