Add This to Your List of Gross Foods

[neverending]

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]

Ewwww. Added. Thanks.

[The Mothman]

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

[neverending]

Really? Where's your sense of adventure?

[nightmare_of _death]

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]

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

[scouse mac]

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]

Originally Posted by Rayne

#5.Casu Marzu



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]

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]

Originally Posted by neverending

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: