News Forum - Thailand government warns of jail time for selling unripe durian

[Thaiger]

It’s durian season in Thailand, and the government is reminding farmers and vendors that they can go to jail for harvesting and selling unripe durian. Yes, they said jail. There’s even a minimum level of dryness of the fruit’s flesh set by Thai authorities to determine the freshness of each variety. Durian is known as the “king of fruit” with a pungent smell so strong that it is banned at many hotels and even Bangkok’s MRT mass transit system. While ripe durian has a unique taste with a rich custard texture, unripe durians with pale flesh do not taste good. […]

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[HolyCowCm]

Durian season = yum yum.

[DoUKnowWhoIAm]

9 minutes ago, Thaiger said:

Authorities will be more on the lookout

You bet the will

[Noble_Design]

Durians that ripe perfectly would actually drop from the tree themselves. Maybe instead of a law to prevent selling unripe durians, there should be a law to prevent plucking durians from the tree and then applying ethylene (or worse calcium carbide) onto the stem to induce artificial ripening. 

 

[Soidog]

Introduce whatever laws you want. If no one is enforcing them or cops are taking bribes to look the other way, then they aren’t worth the paper I’m sure they are written on. 

[AdvocatusDiaboli]

1 hour ago, Thaiger said:

government is reminding farmers and vendors that they can go to jail for harvesting and selling unripe durian.

How do they tell if unripe? By the smell?

[Noble_Design]

5 minutes ago, AdvocatusDiaboli said:

How do they tell if unripe? By the smell?

By measurement:

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For popular varieties, officials have even set harvesting schedules and a minimum percentage of dryness for the fruit. The Kradum variety can be harvested from March 20 with a dryness of at least 27%. The “Chanee” and “Puang Manee” can be harvested from April 10 with a dryness of at least 30%. The “Mon Thong” can be harvested from April 25 with a dryness of at least 32%.

But seriously will there be a government official with the equipment to randomly check durian samples at the market?

I'm not familiar with this dryness measuring method. From where I come from we measure the sugar level of the durian with a Brix Refractometer. The more ripe a durian the higher the sugar level.

[Soidog]

45 minutes ago, AdvocatusDiaboli said:

How do they tell if unripe? By the smell?

Size of brown envelope 

[TheDirtyDurian]

Good. Nothing worse than shelling out for unripe durian. 

[JamesR]

A person should be sent to jail just for carrying it in pubic. 

[AlexPTY]

someone needs to fill those empty beds in jails, since kratom dealers are let go free. and red bull brat is still walking free

[Fanta]

37 minutes ago, AlexPTY said:

someone needs to fill those empty beds in jails, since kratom dealers are let go free. and red bull brat is still walking free

What beds? They sleep on concrete floors with a maximum of 2 blankets. And Thailand  is reducing their prison population to conform with ASEAN guidelines. Covid was a convenient excuse for that. And it is totally coincidental that several ex govt members received decades long sentences that have now been slashed with numerous amnesties /s

[Thommo]

19 hours ago, Thaiger said:

It’s durian season in Thailand, and the government is reminding farmers and vendors that they can go to jail for harvesting and selling unripe durian. Yes, they said jail. There’s even a minimum level of dryness of the fruit’s flesh set by Thai authorities to determine the freshness of each variety. Durian is known as the “king of fruit” with a pungent smell so strong that it is banned at many hotels and even Bangkok’s MRT mass transit system. While ripe durian has a unique taste with a rich custard texture, unripe durians with pale flesh do not taste good. […]

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Interesting: sell uripe durian=Jail Time   hit and kill someone in your Ferrari=0   

[Poolie]

1 hour ago, Thommo said:

Interesting: sell uripe durian=Jail Time   hit and kill someone in your Ferrari=0   

Bore the rest of us to death = zero.