They banned it from the trains. They barred it from the hotels. And still they called it the King of Fruits.
For four hundred years the durian split every traveller who ate it clean in two, one gagging at rotten onions, the next melting over custard, almonds and brown sherry, and somehow the argument never ended. Heaven or horror? Was it the finest fruit on earth, or foulest?
This is a short history of the world's most divisive fruit, and an invitation to decide for yourself.
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