durian

In nature, the are many signs given off by plants warning you to stay away, and not touch and most certainly not eat. Spikes all over are a plant's way of trying to prevent an animal from touching it, and a tough outer skin to prevent an animal from easily accessing the contents of the fruit. Once the flesh is accessed, if you are hungry enough and have managed to overcome the obviously unwelcoming spikes, the next sense to be assaulted is the sense of sight. If the fruit looks like a slug-penis thing made of over-ripe mango, you should very likely not want to eat it. If the the sight of slugcock does not make you think that nature is trying very hard to tell you something important, there is the smell.
Ah the smell. If you have heard about this fruit at all, you have likely heard about the smell of durian, that public transport will not allow you on with durian, or that hotels won't let you through the front door with it, never mind let you in your room with it, that it is a colossally revolting stench that will make you want to pull your own face out through your anus, just to smell something nicer, that sort of thing. It's all really quite true.
My question is this: after being shown this truly awe-inspiring display of natural defences, all of which quite clearly is designed to ward you off. My description of the smell of rotting sweet fruit, vomit and decomposing flesh. Do you now think to yourself "I wonder how it tastes"?. Of course you do. It tastes like very sweet petrol soaked mango. Many will tell you it is quite a mild flavour. Compared to the smell, I suppose that is true. It is an appalling fruit in most every sense.
Nature is trying it's best to tell you to stay away. Listen to nature. It knows best.