When Travel Really Stinks
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 07.22.03 | 9:59 PM ET
Anyone who has traveled in Southeast Asia has undoubtedly encountered the durian, perhaps the worst-smelling fruit on Earth. It smells so bad that it is often banned on trains. Writer Zona Sage noticed the stench shortly after the plane took off from Paris, but she couldn’t identify it. Flight attendants and passengers were baffled, scouring the plane for the source. Bad cheese, perhaps? Then they realized a Vietnamese nun had brought on board medicine made from the dreaded fruit. “The nun turned over the contraband that she had succeeded in carrying through innumerable security checks—a large plastic container of the King of Fruit, as its fans call it,” Sage writes in an entertaining story in Sunday’s South Florida Sun-Sentinel. “The flight attendant held it out ahead of her as she went forward with it.”
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
