possibly the funniest line ive ever read on Wikipedia:
Some people prefer not to ingest the maggots[citation needed].
gonna go ahead and say that line is self-evident.
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no this is rich dipshit food and they will eat the maggots for the full experience . Citation needed indeed, I say!
Don't people regularly get sick from this stuff? There's a line between controlled fermentations and just letting stuff rot and I think this is over that line.
It's banned for sale across the entire EU but yes the maggots can infest your guts
Wow imagine your traditional food being so bad that it's illegal
Fuck foie gras and fuck France, unlimited genocide on the French for creating foie gras, among their other heinous crimes.
Yeah this one SHOULD be illegal
There's an even worse one called "Ortolan" also from the French, with which they drove the bird to near extinction within France.
Also involves force feeding but even more cruel.
Looked into it, all of Europe should be turned into a nature preserve, as atonement.
I've tried it to see why some people go nuts for it. It's cheeks. Like, I can appreciate all kinds of flavors and textures, but foie gras is forgettable at best and sure as hell not worth torturing animals for. I swear some people can taste suffering and they like it.
gross
Because the larvae in the cheese can launch themselves distances up to 15 centimetres (6 in) when disturbed, diners hold their hands above the sandwich to prevent the maggots from leaping.
These desperation foods don't catch on because they're good, they catch on because the alternative is death. Fermented, buried shark isn't a delicacy, it's the only food source in desperate times.
I'm guessing because it can save or something?
In the cheese case, I'm guessing it was a "this cheese has clearly spoiled, but we can either eat it or go hungry" sort of situation.
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I've heard that people eat it with goggles on to keep the maggots from jumping into their eyes
WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE
you WILL eat the bug cheese
no thanks i will eat beans instead 
I want to go back to the time before I clicked on this post
Sorry dawg i tried to warn y'all with that CW
I've eaten it. I liked it.
FLYberius 
This does explain my palette
It*lians
This is the darksouls of cheese.
Wasn't the most disgusting one is the pickled and canned fish of the nordick apes?
I'd rather eat something that reeks of ammonia than something that can jump 6 inches and eat my intestines
I'd rather eat grass than eat both.
The grass 
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.
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!
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
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It's supposed to taste really fucking good
Personally I would not eat it though
It could taste so good it makes you cum and Id still think whoever invented this did a crime
I thought I already knew about this disgusting slop but I didn't know they jump 
no
As a Dublin coddle enjoyer I’m gonna ask you to stop right there, recipe I learned from was delicious
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remember, these people had no radio, no tv, no internet, no streaming. they probably didnt even have newspapers. you get your fun where you can find it.
If sardinians have fun by making and eating cheese where the maggots can jump into your eyes uhhhh I think that's about the limit of what I want to know about Sardinia
i dunno, i'm sure it passes the time and with enough wine, anything can seem fun
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CW: It's fucking gross
I want to talk to me from 10 seconds ago and berate her for not taking this seriously.
You:
BUT THEY CAN SURVIVE IN YOUR GI TRACT
Your own source:
however, no cases have been linked to the cheese
You are worse than the Italians nerd.
none have survived to tell the tale
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Hurl chunks food
Coddle doesnt even look gross its just a stew.
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