Nice haircut :D

and glad you have to drink that and not me ;x

The Jelly Grass Drink was bought at The Bangkok Grocery at 104 Mosco St... And the Durian was bought at the fruit merchant on Bayard and Mulberry... in case anyone wants to try those abominations for themselves.

Great video. I gagged when you put the Durian in your mouth nasty nasty stuff :x. Your reaction was priceless. :o

Oh god man. Why punish your body like this!

is that a Del Taco cup? Has Del Taco expanded into New York?

Wow dude, that's gross. XD Durian made me think more like it looks like phlegm than rotting pumpkin. I guess this is what inspired those strawberry videos though... payback to your fans for making you eat this kind of junk. XD

Next thing you know, the cinemasnob and LordKat will have a food battle eating sheep-eyes, bugs and McDonalds food.. and in the end, each other.. soylent green anyone? :-P

Indipanda Dan ^^

I was looking the Durian Fruit up on Wiki and it is used as flavoring for a number of sweets including a Durian-flavored Yule log cake! (>C<) Yuck!

Taken from Wikipedia:

Grass Jelly:
Grass jelly is made by boiling the aged and slightly oxidized stalks and leaves of Mesona chinensis[1] (member of the mint family) with potassium carbonate for several hours with a little starch and then cooling the liquid to a jelly-like consistency[2].

I've actually seen this before at the Korean grocery store I usually go to. It looks like cubes of black jelly. It's suppose to be a dessert. Never seen it as a drink before though. It tastes okay, I guess, after you get used to it, but then again, why get used to something that tastes bad, right?

Durian:
Chef Andrew Zimmern compares the taste to "completely rotten, mushy onions."[22] Anthony Bourdain, a lover of durian, relates his encounter with the fruit as thus: "Its taste can only be described as...indescribable, something you will either love or despise. ...Your breath will smell as if you'd been French-kissing your dead grandmother."

I've never seen nor heard of this fruit before, and now I know I'm better off if I kept it that way.

and you know people hurt and kill each other over durian too

It was a choice between either the Durian Fruit or Arby's Jalepeno Bites with the Bronco Berry sauce.

I'd say Jason picked the less foul option. xD

I have a funny story about Durian. I had been eye-balling it at the farmer's market here in Atlanta because of the crazy spines and unbelievable curiosity. I ended up buying it last summer when my family was in town as a crazy spur of the moment thing. Ours was extremely hard to cut open and I ended up breaking the handle of a butcher's knife to cut it open. Once we got it open, the sulfuric smell made my brother throw up straight away. I dug into it and after a few bites, I actually became immune to the smell and the taste was really good and sweet. I ended up finishing half of one. The other half went into the dumpster at my apartment complex. I had wrapped it in 2 zip lock bags and then 2 trash bags because of the smell. Some how the bags must have ruptured and combined with the hot summer temps, made the complex stink for at least a half a mile. The smell was like rotting flesh spewing out of a broken septic pipe or a zombie invasion taking a break to tan in the sun. Needless to say that is my first and last experience with the damn "fruit".

i don't need wiki and some show on cable what they are and how they taste because i have tried them both...

grass jelly is actually how i describe as jello flavored leaves and served on a very cold drink which comprised of water mixed with molasses and vanilla extract...i describe it as vanilla flavored chunky green iced tea

durian has that very very strong over ripe fruit taste and that smell sticks everywhere (so don't try what jason did...opening a durian fruit in a room) but my weird experience about this fruit that it has that some kind of addictive thing going on my first taste...i had gone through 5 whole durian fruit in one sitting on that day without noticing it and the consequence of that i smelled i like i came from a beer drinking binge night without the hangover

oh btw i was told that durian has some kind of grade or quality level i bet that the one featured on the video is of a lower grade anyway regardless of that durian is still durian "the ticking time bomb"

nice one jason LOL

Hahaha. You looked like you were in physical pain after that bite of durian.

The Onion A.V. Club did a durian taste test a couple months back. They also considered it oniony and smelling like a dumpster: http://www.avclub.com/articles/durian-fruit,38702/

Yikes.

I can almost SMELL that durian through the monitor as soon as you held the knife-full to the camera. I kind of looked like melted laffy taffy....

I feel bad for you for trying this shit but you have some balls!
Any hope for an update on what went down during the meet-up last week (or 2?) ?

Ap.

That was some nasty. Wow. Amusing though, so thanks - hah.

That was hilarious! The reaction to the banana-flavored grass jelly with dirt was priceless.

Awesome man! Great one... Makes me wanna try that thing too.

LMFAO

wow. I thought he was gonna throw up after he ate that.

Ouch man, that was painful to watch :X I shuddered when you ate that durian

You need to challenge the snob to try these, and confirm your findings ;D But you can't let him see your reactions to them!!! That would have been a good crossover video...

Good idea..they can battle one another by trying to top what the last one just ate.

CS. Drink a glass of Baby Mice Wine...

LK. Eats a serving of Balut.

CS. Tries out a spoon full of Casu Marzu..

LK. Sips a little bit of Dr. Wang's Centipede Larva energy drink..

This could be a hit!

That was amazing Jason. I wondered when you would bring back this 'bad-food' series and I see that it has returned... WITH A VENGENCE!

Now I have a question. Would you rather drink the dirt and tea, or the bad fruit if you had to?

I was laughing at the drinks, but laughing and cringing when you ate that durian. eh, that looked like mushmellow if it would have went bad.

you should try eating arnold schwarzeneggers foodcocktail from the beginning of the movie End of Days. that'd be as awesome as it is lethal.

Hi, I'm from Singapore, where we LOVE Durian and Grass Jelly is just another beverage to us.

Durian is an acquired taste, not all locals like it. I for one don't. However the color and hardness of that durian you bought...that was wrong. The husk isn't supposed to be that soft. I think you might have gotten a rotten one. Plus the flesh, which you ate, was way too soft and pulpy.

If you had a ripe one, you'd get used to the smell and soon the taste of the flesh would be quite sweet.

One thing though never have alcohol along with durian. It's very heaty.

In the words of Andrew Zimmern: ''This is horrifically bad!''

This video reminds me of Bizarre Foods, specially since you tried the durian, must have been nasty. quoting Zimmern again: ''Two countries, three times, still couldn't do it.'' Could it be the worst thing to eat ever? If so, it would use it as a tool for interrogation, talk or eat the nasty flavored stinky durian!

If you will keep making more of these Jason, I dare you to try the lutefisk. Google it, you will be surprised (unless you heard about it already).

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watching you eat and drink nasty stuff is almost as great as you UWW.
I guess I just like to see you suffer, in a friendly ;)
keep up the good work its great!

Forget it, Jason. It's Chinatown.

i found this informative. looked like you were stabbing a hedgehog when you were opening the durian fruit.

LOLOLOL YOU're not eating the Durian right LOL.... There's a certain area in the Durain where you actually eat it and toss the REST LOL.

OMG THAT WAS SO FUNNY MAN. LOL KUDOS FOR DOING THAT! Mosdef have to buy you a beer for that WOOOO!

You're such a whore, Jason. <3

I was looking through the list of all NES games for games to add to my collection and was surprised by what I found. Get this- a guy (last name Sivak) created a homebrewed NES game and released it exclusively for the NES this year through Retrozone. That’s Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril by Sivak games, 2010. It looks just up LorKat’s ally with a wide range of difficulty settings and instant death from taking any damage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Kid:_Fortress_of_Peril. Aside from that it looks to be very promising and, frankly, loads of fun with elements from the best of them (Mega Man, Metroid, etc.). Afterall, we in 2010 would know what makes a really classic, long lasting, and fun game by now from trial and error, or so one would think, right?

Hello LordKat, have you ever thought of giving the infamous Balut a go? I don't have the guts to try it, though everyone seems to say that it actually tastes really good once you get past its horrible (!) sight. If it's true, then it's time you tried some better tasting food for a change. ;)

Meh.

My Taiwanese roommate bought a durian once. He at least knew enough to freeze the damn thing to cut down on the smell (and he opened it outside). Frozen, it tasted like EXTREMELY rich, egg custard. I don't remember if it was sweet (if it was it was mild), but it didn't have any kind of rotten, sour, putrid, etc. taste you would expect from the smell. It was more like an avocado than any other fruit I can think of. Not the worst fruit I have ever eaten (ginkgo fruit tastes like bile... and is poisonous, d'oh!), but still, if you like that rich egg custard taste, you might as well eat custard (preferably in a pie with coconut or banana. Mmm...).

I come here for UWW, but that was a quality video :)

Eww, that stuff looks nasty :P Just a tip tho, if you wanted to show us what it looked like, why don't you pour the drink into a glass or something? :D I mean, it's a bit easier to see than at the top of the can. ^^

Kat,
I LOVE these! (I'm a big Zimmerman fan too)
But I agree....if you and Brad are going to do drinks, def. POUR IT IN A GLASS!....the visual look of it is important to convey the experience.
thanx :) angelique_sp

A friend just emailed me this. Just. . . wow, man.

My first experience with durian was in a grocery on the east coast. A friend was with me, and we are both the kind of people who will do anything just for the experience of it, especially when we're together. Stupidity feeds off company, I guess. Well, I thought something at the butcher counter was rotting, but no. It was an entire fridge full of these things, and they'd posted a huge warning label. My friend had already grabbed one and had that gleam in his eye that always ends in regret, when another friend ran over to us, I swear to god in slow motion, screaming "NOOOOOOOO!" She'd beat us to the punch, and her apartment had smelled for weeks after. Not wanting to waste it, she'd tried baking it into cookies, freezing it, etc. Nothing made it better.

I'd see these things on and off for a while before I'd brave them myself after that, but I decided, when I found some wafer cookies in durian flavor, that I'd give them a shot. Man, I could not even swallow ONE COOKIE, let alone the real fruit. I gave the bag to the guy who emailed me your vid, here, and he finished them, somehow. You are a brave soul and I salute you and your masochism for making me laugh today.

Durian...well it is an acquired taste, it can be used in sweet and savory dishes. I had a slice of Durian cake, and while it smelt like bad onions it tasted heavenly. (The Durian burps are the worst though xP)