^Squirrels, probably. They're nutty for the seeds. The fruit's flesh, however, is gagtastic. Ranchers kept Osage Orange around as a species for its usefulness as hedgerow. In the post barbed-wire fence era, however, it's been up to the squirrels.

 

Back to this charged and relevant topic.

How 'bout a durian thread?

.......and I absolutely have to peel the strings off. Otherwise I'd yak.

 

Your not the only one, until reading that, I thought I was the only one like that. 

 

My brother just breaks it in half, peels the skin back and eat the whole thing in few bites, that has always grossed me out!

How 'bout a durian thread?

 

God wants us to have nothing to do with the durian:

 

That stinks

[...]

The Osage Orange. No living animal will eat these...

 

AKA hedge apples.

 

Something eats them; I used to find them on the ground at Ouabache State Park near Bluffton (IN), and sometimes they were half-eaten. Either some native fauna likes them, or there's a heretofore undiscovered population of Giant Land Sloths lurking in the forest at the park.

 

The last time I looked for some, DNR had cut down the Osage Orange grove that I knew about, near the base of the fire tower.

 

Oops! A moderator took this thread off-topic and I followed blindly. I blame his charismatic leadership. :-D

The only place I've ever seen those in Ohio was in suburban Cleveland north of Chagrin Blvd. near the circle (not that they don't exist elsewhere). I'm not sure why they were planted in this area as they are all over the ground when driving through there.

 

Okay back to Bananas before I get in trouble.  :-)

I peel mine then squeeze gently, breaking it into vertical thirds.

 

Far better texture.

 

I want to eat a Paw Paw.