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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”

  • BironyPoisoned [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    5 days ago

    If you wanted to actually parallel the argument it would be more like “the toxins in blue cheese magically don’t affect the body if you get them from blue cheese even if they can through other exposure”

    Maggots are not analogous to toxins in it of themselves. It’s them living to the intestines that would be the equivalent. If 100% of all maggots died in the stomach, then there would be no harm and thus no working analogy. I wouldn’t go so far as say 100% but certainly enough to be safe.

    that’s essentially the belief you’re laying at this rotten cheese shit thanks to a throwaway line from a wikipedia saying “but no cases have been linked to the cheese” like it is the authority on infectious disease

    Funny considering your source was the same wikipedia page for why it’s dangerous. Right or wrong, your argument contradicts itself.

    Im sorry im being so rude but i’m not going to eat the maggot cheese, that’s how much i don’t want it

    I already ensnared your soul to a hex to ensure than in your next life you’ll be born on Kalpon, a planet in which the primary sustenance is a cheese-like substance made by fermenting milk with maggots. It’s kinda grainy but they mix it with a grain to make a pseudo cheesy flatbread. Really good actually but you will eat the maggot cheese as punishment for defying me.