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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[–] Soot@hexbear.net 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks 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, 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.

[–] vanDerVaartBlackenedRanch@hexbear.net 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

speech-r dancing-roach

Kafkaesque

[–] isame@hexbear.net 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Today I learned cocoa is fermented after harvesting.

[–] Soot@hexbear.net 1 points 4 weeks ago

I too only learned this a couple years ago! It's very neat.