The name literally means rotten cheese, it’s intentionally filled with maggots to “ferment it,” ‘aficionados’ specifically think it’s unsafe if the maggots are dead so you’re supposed to eat them live BUT THEY CAN SURVIVE IN YOUR GI TRACT and make you very sick. The fucking maggots can jump 6 inches!
What the fuck is wrong with people?
I learned about this because I guess I’m supposed to make a vegan “Dublin coddle” tomorrow for work and I was like, what the fuck is a Dublin coddle? and the wikipedia mentioned how it looks gross so Dubliners get defensive about it the same way others do about their weird national delicacies
The thing is though it’s just slow simmered sausages and potatoes and shit, it looks gross because it’s sad peasant food. This rotten cheese shit is on an entirely different dimension of “fucking gross”
possibly the funniest line ive ever read on Wikipedia:
Some people prefer not to ingest the maggots[citation needed].
gonna go ahead and say that line is self-evident.
no this is rich dipshit food and they will eat the maggots for the full experience . Citation needed indeed, I say!
Don’t people regularly get sick from this stuff? There’s a line between controlled fermentations and just letting stuff rot and I think this is over that line.
It’s banned for sale across the entire EU but yes the maggots can infest your guts, plus you can just get regular sick from bacteria
Wow imagine your traditional food being so bad that it’s illegal
Fuck foie gras and fuck France, unlimited genocide on the French for creating foie gras, among their other heinous crimes.
I’ve tried it to see why some people go nuts for it. It’s cheeks. Like, I can appreciate all kinds of flavors and textures, but foie gras is forgettable at best and sure as hell not worth torturing animals for. I swear some people can taste suffering and they like it.
There’s an even worse one called “Ortolan” also from the French, with which they drove the bird to near extinction within France.
Also involves force feeding but even more cruel.
Looked into it, all of Europe should be turned into a nature preserve, as atonement.
Yeah this one SHOULD be illegal
gross
Because the larvae in the cheese can launch themselves distances up to 15 centimetres (6 in) when disturbed, diners hold their hands above the sandwich to prevent the maggots from leaping.
These desperation foods don’t catch on because they’re good, they catch on because the alternative is death. Fermented, buried shark isn’t a delicacy, it’s the only food source in desperate times.
the maggots are purposefully introduced to the sheep milk
they could just drink the sheep milk instead of introducing the maggots, or made regular cheese.
This explanation only really makes sense the first time it ever happened on accident. Subsequent creations of this monstrosity are done out of hatred of the world and all that is holy
I’m guessing because it can save or something?
In the cheese case, I’m guessing it was a “this cheese has clearly spoiled, but we can either eat it or go hungry” sort of situation.
you WILL eat the bug cheese
no thanks i will eat beans instead
I want to go back to the time before I clicked on this post
Sorry dawg i tried to warn y’all with that CW
I’ve heard that people eat it with goggles on to keep the maggots from jumping into their eyes
WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE
This is the darksouls of cheese.
I thought I already knew about this disgusting slop but I didn’t know they jump
remember, these people had no radio, no tv, no internet, no streaming. they probably didnt even have newspapers. you get your fun where you can find it.
If sardinians have fun by making and eating cheese where the maggots can jump into your eyes uhhhh I think that’s about the limit of what I want to know about Sardinia
i dunno, i’m sure it passes the time and with enough wine, anything can seem fun
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I’ve eaten it. I liked it.
FLYberius
This does explain my palette
Cheese is already made with mould. The exact same Roquefort mould in cheese will, in other conditions, make enough neurotoxin to kill you with a few milligrams, in hours.
Have we not yet discarded the idea that ‘sounds icky’ foods are inherently terrible? Insects and maggots are frequently eaten in many cultures over the world. My only issue with this food is the maggots potentially making you sick, but it turns out that’s just a theoretical issue.
It is possible that the larvae could survive in the intestine, causing enteric pseudomyiasis … however, no cases have been linked to the cheese
My only issue with this food is the maggots potentially making you sick, but it turns out that’s just a theoretical issue.
This is just pro rotten cheese propaganda because if you read, literally the exact same species of fly maggot has caused known cases of pseudomyiasis. So some nerd doctor somewhere hasn’t explicitly determined a specific infection came, specifically, from eating this cheese. They don’t need to! You’re eating the same damn maggots!
Of course it’s pro-rotten cheese propaganda, it’s pro all rotten food propaganda, because controlled rot is like the tastiest of all things.
My point is clearly the risk of actual disease is very low, clearly at least bordering on negligible, probably even lower than foods we do commonly eat. Your exact same argument could be used against maybe most cheese. We have identified commonly eaten foods as a source of all sorts of gross disease.
Cocoa, kimchi, pickles, miso, all alcoholic drinks, kombucha, natto, yoghurt, the list of rotten foods that are the actual best is endless. And I will endure tiny risk for these things.
Kafkaesque
Today I learned cocoa is fermented after harvesting.
I too only learned this a couple years ago! It’s very neat.
Yeah fermentation and bugs and stuff, whatever, every culture has their gross stinky food and it usually tastes pretty good.
But a food potentially making you sick is a serious problem and I will not get over it.
Just edited, but on reading it turns out that’s not even a real risk. It’s literally never happened. Statistically, you should be more worried of getting salmonella from raw flour, which is a real risk that happens.
no
I want to return to a time before I opened this post.
periodically, casu marzu is discovered by internet folks
Do you think i should add another content warning
I just lack self control and clicked through regardless
