The durian fruit has been banned in hotels across Asia, has evacuated buildings in Australia and Canada, and yet now seems to be conquering Germany one fire brigade call at a time.

The Southeast Asian fruit’s smell, which resembles that of gas, was noticed by visitors to a shopping center in the city, located in western Germany.

Welcome, Germany, to the “Durian Panic Club” that includes basically every other nation that accepted the nature of shipped fruit to supermarkets in the last 20 years.

Your membership card is in the mail. It smells like gas.

(It’s not gas. It’s durian.)

In what can only be described as Germany’s most efficient journey from hungry ignorance to fruitful enlightenment, the Wiesbaden fire brigade was called out four times on Saturday to investigate the same gas leak that turned out to be a single durian fruit at an Asian supermarket.

Four times.

Four. Times.

Leave it to Germany to encounter a problem, methodically measure it with high precision instruments, find no rational explanation, and then… call the fire brigade, three more times.

“Zere is no gas connection in zis building,” one can imagine them saying, staring at their equipment in confusion. “Ze measurements show nothing. And yet… ze smell persists. We must investigate again, Hanz. And again, Franz…”

Meanwhile, anyone used to pausing to smell the fruit at a market, or reading the news from countries that eat fruit, is thinking:

“Yes. We know. We’ve known since… around 300 BCE. It’s delicious.”