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neverending 11-02-2009 02:56 PM

Add This to Your List of Gross Foods
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu

Cheese with live maggots in it.

You spread some on a cracker and then hold your hand over it when you eat it so the maggots don't jump into your eyes.

ChronoGrl 11-02-2009 03:42 PM

Ewwww. Added. Thanks.

The Mothman 11-02-2009 09:58 PM

I tend to stay away from foods that you can only find in the black market.

neverending 11-02-2009 10:19 PM

Really? Where's your sense of adventure?

nightmare_of _death 11-03-2009 02:28 AM

That's gross...totally added...here's a blog I stumbled across one time, Its got some really gross food in it more stuff to add to the do not eat list

http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives...ont_eat_it.php

newb 11-03-2009 08:01 AM

Who the hell, in their right mind, would eat that shit?

scouse mac 11-03-2009 08:05 AM

Im a big fan of having a cheese selection instead of dessert at restaurants, but I think that maggot shit wouldnt go well with a plate of Ritz crackers.

ferretchucker 11-03-2009 09:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rayne (Post 681860)

#5.Casu Marzu

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...gotcheese1.jpg

From:
Sardinia, Italy.

What is it?
Casu Marzu is a sheep's milk cheese that has been deliberately infested by a Piophila casei, the "cheese fly." The result is a maggot-ridden, weeping stink bomb in an advanced state of decomposition.

Its translucent larvae are able to jump about 6 inches into the air, making this the only cheese that requires eye protection while eating. The taste is strong enough to burn the tongue, and the larvae themselves pass through the stomach undigested, sometimes surviving long enough to breed in the intestine, where they attempt to bore through the walls, causing vomiting and bloody diarrhea.

This cheese is a delicacy in Sardinia, where it is illegal. That's right. It is illegal in the only place where people actually want to eat it. When prodded, it weeps an odorous liquid called lagrima, Sardinian for "tears."

If the maggots are still wriggling, then it's okay to eat. If the maggots aren't wriggling, that means the cheese has become toxic.

Danger of this turning up in America:
Most likely would be illegal here, too, for health reasons.


http://www.horror.com/forum/newreply...reply&p=681860

Still disgusting and all, but Rayne already posted it ;) :p

neverending 11-03-2009 10:21 AM

Hmm... according to the wiki article it's no longer illegal- it's been given status as a traditional food and doesn't have to pass safety regulations.

ferretchucker 11-03-2009 01:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by neverending (Post 835645)
Hmm... according to the wiki article it's no longer illegal- it's been given status as a traditional food and doesn't have to pass safety regulations.

In that case your update is justified (not sarcasm).

Interesting that it's legal now. What's more interesting is that legal or not, people still eat it...:confused:


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