CW: It's fucking gross
I want to talk to me from 10 seconds ago and berate her for not taking this seriously.
this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2026
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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
Tell me how live maggots of the same species are known to cause pseudomyiasis but, somehow, i guess they just don't if you eat them with cheese
Fuck Italy man wtf
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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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.
no this is rich dipshit food and they will eat the maggots for the full experience . Citation needed indeed, I say!
Thanks for ~~sharing~~ THANKS FOR NOTHING!!
Coddle seems pretty tame. Just some random stew.
Yeah like wtf it shouldn't even be mentioned in the same paragraph as this cheese, or even escargot or hakarl (two other foods the wiki page mentioned). It's not like it even uses blood sausage or anything extra gross
I've heard that people eat it with goggles on to keep the maggots from jumping into their eyes
WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE
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, plus you can just get regular sick from bacteria
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.
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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
you WILL eat the bug cheese
no thanks i will eat beans instead 
I want to return to a time before I opened this post.
periodically, casu marzu is discovered by internet folks
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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, but it turns out that's just a theoretical issue.
It is possible that the larvae could survive in the intestine, causing enteric pseudomyiasis ... however, no cases have been linked to the cheese
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, clearly at least bordering on negligible, probably even lower than foods we do commonly eat. Your exact same argument could be used against maybe most cheese. We have identified commonly eaten foods as a source of all sorts of gross disease.
Cocoa, kimchi, pickles, miso, all alcoholic drinks, kombucha, natto, yoghurt, the list of rotten foods that are the actual best is endless. And I will endure tiny risk for these things.
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.
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I thought I already knew about this disgusting slop but I didn't know they jump 
I've eaten it. I liked it.
FLYberius 
This does explain my palette
Coddle doesnt even look gross its just a stew.
The pictures I saw on the wiki just look really plain, thin broth, whole sausages that didn't seem to be browned before stewing, etc
As a Dublin coddle enjoyer I’m gonna ask you to stop right there, recipe I learned from was delicious
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This is the darksouls of cheese.
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