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I just found out in It*ly there’s this cheese where ppl let it sit out for flies to lay eggs in and the ppl eat it with the maggots inside to give it flavor. And let me tell you. I am not having a good day bc of it

it’s called casu marzu. they take pecorino cheese and let it rot long enough (3-4 months) for flies to infest it, lay their eggs, and the eggs hatch inside it. and it looks like this:

apparently the maggots eat the cheese as it rots and then shit it out to give it its signature… flavour. it’s eaten while the maggots are still alive so ppl eating it are warned to make sure they chew and kill any and all maggots they consume so that no live ones make it to their stomach, as well as not to make any sudden movements as the maggots can LEAP when disturbed and attach to their eyes. i am disgusted and my skin is crawling as i type this

I liked it better when white people didn’t have culture

It’s called Casu marzu and it’s a Sardinian sheep milk cheese. And the maggots can launch themselves up to 15 cm (6 in) in distance.

🤢🤢🤢🤢😷😷😷😷😰😰😰😨😨😨😨

Why

This what happens when you let white people make up their own seasoning

Wait what

I know this is going to just get me in trouble, but come on.

I think we all know that all races and cultures have some gross food.

Mexico has escamoles, the larvae of a venomous ant species. China has the century egg. The Phillipenes have Balut, the boiled egg containing a fertilized duck embryo. Even fileting fish down to the heart, while managing to keep it alive.

We were gross and barbaric and didn’t know anything about food safety, way back when. When we continue to do it, it’s for one of two reasons- the people doing it have no choice, and the move is practical, or people consider it part of their cultural identity and want to connect to that.

But bottom line, let’s not pretend that any culture isn’t guilty of this weird ass shit.

I mean.

Cheese itself?

“I’m going to let this milk ferment using particular cultures, bound together with this funky enzyme which in previous centuries could only be harvested from the stomachs of freshly slaughtered young calves etc. and keep it in some cave somewhere for 18+ months to mature. Tell your friends.”

I want to see who came up with THAT pitch if you know what I mean.

There’s variations on cheeses that involve the skulls or brains of animals. And ones that still have visible mold on them. Like…what kind of Hannibal-level culinary edgelord came up with some of that shit?

Like…broccoli? Who pitched that one? “Nah, Bro, don’t eat the leaves eat the buds of the flowers before they actually turn into flowers.” Whaaaaaaat?

Or aged steak? (Which also involves letting the outside layer of the meat rot for “flavor”.) Who sat down and was like “nah, we can’t let this meat go to waste this is prime stuff. Just kind of…cut around the bad bits? See what you can salvage?” Because that sounds like some camping dad somewhere for sure.

Or what ditch-drinking desperate peasant created tea because THIS puddle was tastier than the next one? (And there’s fermented teas too because of course. Just think of all the still-living organisms you’re swigging down the next time you down a kombucha.)

Or bread. Freaking bread my dude. Who even.

There are always going to be people who eat and drink things you find unthinkable.

But sure. “Bugs are bad!” says a person potentially down to pay twenty bucks for a lobster, which eats literal poop to survive and was probably cooked alive for flavor.

Maybe maggots are a stretch but seriously, a lot of bugs are fine in a lot of different cultures.

They’re decent protein, I mean, if you aren’t raised in some first world country that consumes several animals each week on a regular basis and thinks that’s normal.

Grasshoppers are kosher, I mean. I know that much off the top of my head, and they’re bound to be bigger and crunchier than a maggot.

…although that is not a speculative sentence I ever thought I’d write in my life and I might really hope nobody calls me out on my childhood there.

But get rid of a pest eating your lettuces and also acquire protein? I call that a win.

And. I mean. Off the top of my head there’s even a Vietnamese dish somewhere that involves covering your food in live fire ants, so if we’re talking seasoning that probably packs a pretty decent punch. (Edit: possibly it’s Thai. I went to look it up after a moment of self doubt about the sources of my trivia. Either way. Omnomnom.)

But I guarantee you whatever culture you belong to, you’re bound to have some weird shit in the regional dishes if you scope back far enough. We all just tend to think whatever we grew up eating is normal.

Like. The English made fun of the Scots for eating oats once, I mean. That was horse food. “Everyone” knew that.

We used to throw out Portobello Mushrooms because they were useless.

There’s coffee out there that’s supposed to be made better by getting pooped out by a mammal someplace.

We eat octopi and those are supposed to have the intelligence level of a two year old.

This is NOT the weirdest or most problematic thing I’ve ever seen when it comes to food.

Like…I’d be tempted to bake the thing like a Brie first, because I’m not big on eating things alive that can feel it, but if I ever got the opportunity to try it, I’d let you know if it’s worth it?

The base cheese on its own sure isn’t bad. Romano, I mean? It’s a bit like a Parmesan. It’s probably sharp enough to hide a vast multitude of palate sins and rot processes like that tend to make really tangy cheeses?

Plus assuming you’re actually eating this in Italy, at the absolute least there’s bound to be a ton of really great wine to wash the taste out if it turns out not to be your thing. Or fancy sparkling waters or whatever if you don’t get off on aging your grapes.

Maggots are good protein source though.

Tbh many “disgusting” food were discovered because ppl found food you’re not supposed to eat but decided to give it a try either because they are starving or they’re bored XD