It was a real gas-querade.

Residents of a UK town sounded an alarm after smelling what they thought was a gas leak, only to discover later that the stench was coming from the “ world’s smelliest fruit ” — durian, a delicacy throughout Southeast Asia.

“I knew it smelled bad but I didn’t think it would bring the gas board out,” Andrew Simpkins, 61, owner of the Strongs Fruit and Veg shop in Lytham, Lancashire that sold the funky fruit, told South West News Service.

“I tried some for the first time — I was skeptical at first but it has a pleasant aftertaste,” said Strong’s store owner Andrew Simpkins. William Lailey / SWNS

An engineer with the Cadent gas company had been dispatched to the store on September 16 after residents raised a stink over a “strong smell” of gas emanating from t

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