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I think i found the world's grossest "food" (it's Italian) CW: not vegan AND IT'S FUCKING GROSS (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
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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"

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[–] [S] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

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!

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    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. catgirl-happy

    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.

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