{"id":177,"date":"2010-12-29T15:12:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T01:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/?p=177"},"modified":"2010-12-29T15:18:20","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T01:18:20","slug":"the-saga-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/2010\/12\/29\/the-saga-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"The Saga Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, on Christmas Night I done and et my first Durian since coming\u00a0 to Hawaii. See, they’re three bucks a pound here (compare with one dollar per — Thai, frozen — in Seattle’s Little Saigon district), which is decidedly out of my budgetary range. But I figured, “‘ey, what the Hell? It’s god damned Christmas<\/em>, ain’t it?” And so I ponied up the loot. Here ’tis (the Durian, I mean; not the loot):<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>To be perfectly honest about it, the experience was a bit underwhelming. It was good<\/em>, mind, even very good<\/em>. But not quite what I’d been expecting given the aroma, which was driving me crazy (the fruit was purchased on Christmas Eve morn). Huhn, I wonder if there’s an already-coined term for being driven to apoplexy by the most beautiful, wonderful, delectable aroma that ever there was in the universe?<\/p>\n

Anyhow, it’s possible that I may have done eaten it before it had reached its absolute peak of perfection — it had only just begun to split open. But I figured that if I didn’t<\/em> eat it right quick, I should surely perish; and so eating the less-than-perfect Durian was perhaps the wiser choice.<\/p>\n

Here’re a coupla nice large ones, in case you’re curious, photographed from the Hilo Farmers’ Market a few months ago.<\/p>\n

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By the way, I decided, in order to document The Saga’s official commencement, to finally bust out and use this damned web-camera-ma-jig embedded into my laptop. But it was too dark where I was, and I was too lazy to get somewhere with some more light.<\/p>\n

But I’m digging this self-portrait! Makes me look kinda like Brando in Apocalypse Now<\/em> (except maybe not quite<\/em> as bulbous), wouldn’t you say?<\/p>\n

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