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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. Beyond that, sounds great.
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, probably even lower than foods we do commonly eat.
Cocoa, kimchi, pickles, miso, all alcoholic drinks, kombucha, natto, yoghurt, the list of rotten foods that are the actual best is endless.
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.