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Post by Banjo on Aug 23, 2017 9:27:00 GMT 7
I planted a couple of trees, a pink and a white, still a few years off yet though.
I don't mind Durian, it's a bit rich though. Certainly expensive.
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Post by Denis-NFA on Aug 24, 2017 3:18:42 GMT 7
I planted a couple of trees, a pink and a white, still a few years off yet though. I don't mind Durian, it's a bit rich though. Certainly expensive. Banjo and nomadic, Can you post a foto of a Durian please? We have a thing here that I thought was Durian but I'm now not sure.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2017 5:31:08 GMT 7
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Post by Banjo on Aug 24, 2017 6:46:13 GMT 7
There is no doubt as to what is a durian, the smell is overpowering, I saw somewhere that Singapore bans it on trains as some people find it offensive. It's one of those things that people are fanatical over or cannot stand to be in the same room as. Think balut.... By sight it can be confused with the jackfruit, the same prickly skin and yellow colored interior but once you get a whiff all doubt is gone. The name appears to be the same in the Philippines. tagalog.livejournal.com/90716.html
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Post by nomadic on Aug 24, 2017 7:12:11 GMT 7
lots of places in the region including hotels with signs up saying; no durian. but it is considered the king of the fruits with mangosteen being the queen. lot different to jackfruit though banjo. massive spikes compared to flat surface and a good jackfruit is hard to beat for taste if someone else separates the segments for me as like super glue before they are all cleaned up but mangosteen are reported to be the healthiest fruit on earth with highest amount of anti oxidents in them. i have read claims that they can cure cancer, depression among other things but most of the goodness is in the skin which is like leather. but a german guy worked out how to make it all palatable in a juice. i saw a guy selling it in a local market in oz after it was imported by alex jezalenko of up there jezza fame. Was $55.00 a bottle but you only drank 10 mils a day so it lasted a month. The guy selling it told me it cured his sons depression. But i guess if it did then nobody would be depressed but i have read a few times the anti oxident claims so i believe that. But they really are delicious also.
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Post by Banjo on Aug 24, 2017 10:13:33 GMT 7
Very nice, a mangosteen. I tried several fruits in the Philippines that were obviously in the same family but cannot recall the names.
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Post by mulloway on Aug 24, 2017 10:30:27 GMT 7
The anti-oxidants in Mangosteen are xanthones but they are found mainly in the skin and seeds. I have eaten Mangosteen skins and seeds and they have a unique bitter taste. Any fruit or veg with dark colored pigments is best, for example purple Dragonfruit is better than white Dragonfruit. I doubt the sweet white flesh of the mangosteen would have any special health benefits.
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Post by Denis-NFA on Aug 24, 2017 21:11:55 GMT 7
Thank you to all you good folk.
It is the jackfruit that I was confusing with Durian.
In a former life I used to have a flat not far from Lygon Street, Carlton, Victoria and some enterprising SE Asian folk opened an icecream parlour and one of the flavours was Durien. I tried it because so many SE Asian type folk were buying it so had to see what it was about.
The other good thing about that flat's location is that it was about 15 minute walk from the Queen Victoria Markets. Cheapest food I've ever seen in Australia and most extensive.
Cheers
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Post by nomadic on Aug 25, 2017 7:23:46 GMT 7
you are showing your age. market no longer cheap and many stall holders going broke these days as the city council is going to revamp it i think. yeah, the good old days when there were 6 games of footy in MEL every sat, one tattslotto, gas and fuel corp and S.E.C. But you were ahead of your time as it would be thirty years later until i heard of durian, jack fruit etc. All I knew were apples and oranges. Banana's were exotic for me in those days. But tomorrows result may show my age also because if North lose to Brisbane i can recall last time we got the wooden spoon back in 1973 and many prior to that also. Although "THEY" have even destroyed Aussie rules also. M. Blight, K. Greig, Schimma etc etc all got the minimum wage only and had other jobs also. Now they get $millions and play like #######. But my old dad remembers Jack Dyer when he was on 10 schillings a game. Now he is showing his age so we are still young denis.
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Post by Denis-NFA on Aug 25, 2017 20:44:46 GMT 7
you are showing your age. market no longer cheap and many stall holders going broke these days as the city council is going to revamp it i think. yeah, the good old days when there were 6 games of footy in MEL every sat, one tattslotto, gas and fuel corp and S.E.C. But you were ahead of your time as it would be thirty years later until i heard of durian, jack fruit etc. All I knew were apples and oranges. Banana's were exotic for me in those days. But tomorrows result may show my age also because if North lose to Brisbane i can recall last time we got the wooden spoon back in 1973 and many prior to that also. Although "THEY" have even destroyed Aussie rules also. M. Blight, K. Greig, Schimma etc etc all got the minimum wage only and had other jobs also. Now they get $millions and play like #######. But my old dad remembers Jack Dyer when he was on 10 schillings a game. Now he is showing his age so we are still young denis. nomadicI got the privilege of watching the 1977 drawn GF and the replay the following week between North Melbourne and Collingwood. Fantastic games. I can't get involved nowadays.
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Post by nomadic on Aug 26, 2017 7:05:20 GMT 7
so was i denis. i hardly missed a north game for 15 years. best day of my life at that stage when they won first ever in 75. but was so drunk on drawn day in 77 i couldn't remember it so didn't drink on replay day but sadly time has erased most of that memory also but great days overall of footy at it's best. i wouldn't walk across the road to watch a game today. just keeping's off. no hip and shoulder, drop kick and they kick backwards often. i was told if i kicked backwards i wouldn't get a game next week. i could go on and on but it seems like just another symptom of today's society problems. in those days the violence was on the ground and these days it's in the stands. people robbed banks and now banks rob people. ohhh the good old days. lucky for me i am still in good new days here in Thailand.
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Post by Denis-NFA on Sept 14, 2017 13:04:28 GMT 7
Finally got to try and smell some Durian the other day. Very distinctive.
The old Grandmother from just next door died the other day. Her husband, 'the old bloke' is still on the go but saddened. '80's.
I think the locals put up with me because I'm Australian. Lot of local folk seem to know someone that has been or lives in Australia.
It's been a long time and a tad difficult for me to deal with a death in the family, so to speak.
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Post by Banjo on Sept 14, 2017 13:20:29 GMT 7
A funeral is a minimum of three days here, various entertainment activities go on to keep the ghost amused so it doesn't wander off and terrorise the community before the monks have done their job.
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Post by nomadic on Sept 14, 2017 19:32:22 GMT 7
My best friend, German, died a few years ago and they had to do a P.M. in Chiang Mai. When he was creamated there i asked why not back here? Too big a job to get ghost out of car they told me. The monks chanted all day at his house where he died to get rid of it while we had a good feed. He would have been laughing his head off.
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Post by Denis-NFA on Sept 16, 2017 11:35:45 GMT 7
Yah.
When I told a mind bloke in Perth 2011 that I was going to Philippines he re4minded me that they are Catholic.
I said I understood.
Give 'grace' to everyone.
I guess he was warning me.
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