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”
gross
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.
the maggots are purposefully introduced to the sheep milk
they could just drink the sheep milk instead of introducing the maggots, or made regular cheese.
This explanation only really makes sense the first time it ever happened on accident. Subsequent creations of this monstrosity are done out of hatred of the world and all that is holy