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	Requiem Bar Star (15580posts) 10/23/2007 8:49:00 AM There are things that people eat, in various places around the world, that seem to come from Satan's cookbook. Like Casu Marzu. A delicacy from Sardinia, Italy, this cheese is made from sheep's milk, and has been deliberately infested with a maggot colloquially known as the "cheese fly". The maggots cause the cheese to go beyond the normal fermentation to actual decomposition, meaning you're eating rotten cheese with maggots. Oh, and the maggots are quite active, they can jump up to six inches if disturbed. In a rare display of common sense and good taste, the Italian government has made the cheese illegal, but it is readily available on the black market. A medium sized lump of sweet fücking jesus:
	Requiem Bar Star (15580posts) 10/23/2007 9:28:00 AM Next on the list of evil is Balut. These are duck eggs that have been allowed to form embryos, then boiled alive and eaten in the shell. They are popular in Cambodia, Vietnam, and Hell. The liquid surrounding the embyo is sipped from the shell before eating the baby duck, bones and all.
	Temptasia Oldschool CVer (10460posts) 10/23/2007 9:35:00 AM I used to eat those eggs at special family functions. I was terrified of the baby duck's head and so my mom would decapitate it for me before I would eat it. How thoughtful of her!
	sunday Member (6080posts) 10/23/2007 9:35:00 AM the liquid surrounding the embryo is the best! there usually are no bones and feathers, but sometimes they are a little over incubated. i have seen animals/fish full of maggots and the body actually moves from all the movement inside. i could not bring myself to eat live maggots. i am sure you could deep fry them and i would eat them like chips! i bet they would taste like chicken too...
	Requiem Bar Star (15580posts) 10/23/2007 9:51:00 AM Continuing on the larvae / egg theme, consider Escamoles. No, these aren't the chewy center of an igloo that polar bears enjoy so much, they are the eggs of venomous ants in Mexico. The ants lay thousands of these eggs in the roots of the agave plant, which are then collected by laborers who have to seriously wonder where their life went wrong. The eggs are commonly eaten in tacos with guacamole, which apparently adds to the flavor and stops the eggs from falling out.
	sunday Member (6080posts) 10/23/2007 10:03:00 AM do not forget about the delicacy where people gather together and chew on rice and spit it into a common bowl. it is then fermented and enjoyed at a later date! the saliva speeds up the process... sharing is caring!
	Requiem Bar Star (15580posts) 10/23/2007 10:10:00 AM I think we should have all of these on the menu for the next CV dinner night.
	sunday Member (6080posts) 10/23/2007 10:15:00 AM nothing better than getting drunk off of shared cvr's spit! oh wait! i am sure that has happened many times already...
	LazyKitty Member (3702posts) 10/24/2007 12:20:00 AM this thread is great for my dieting purposes.
	Spiderwoman Member (54106posts) 10/28/2007 9:15:00 PM ew. and I thought tripe was scary. i heard about some dish from the philippines where they bury fish, let it ferment and then dig it up to eat it anything made from blood or monkeys freaks me out
	_Tarzan_ Member (14738posts) 10/28/2007 9:48:00 PM Lutefisk. fish that's been soaked in lye for days. I don't know what lye is either. But if they do it for too long the fat in the fish turns into soap
	Mazdapro5 Member (153posts) 10/29/2007 10:44:00 PM ok heres mine, you wont find this in the malls, but in china people make Stinky Tofu, its supposed to smell HORRIBLE! I smelled one, and it smells like aged stinky socks! I dont know how to post a picture but heres the link to one
	Temptasia Oldschool CVer (10460posts) 10/30/2007 7:58:00 AM ^ you can find them at the Richmond night market....and it smells like a garbage strike on a hot summer's day. cottage cheese creeps me out
	_stranger_ Dancer (38106posts) 10/30/2007 8:09:00 AM http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/h..._news/england/2698507.stm
	_stranger_ Dancer (38106posts) 10/30/2007 8:10:00 AM hmmmmm. they actually sound kinda good http://www.bbc.co.uk/food...tabase/faggots_8132.shtml
	_Tarzan_ Member (14738posts) 10/30/2007 10:25:00 AM They eat bundles of sticks? The savages
	FA_FA Member (187posts) 10/30/2007 11:19:00 AM Eating those foods is not different then eating cows, fish or your neighbours dog.
	_Tarzan_ Member (14738posts) 10/31/2007 12:53:00 PM Bird's nest soup. It's bird spit
	Bijou_7 Member (8454posts) 10/31/2007 1:05:00 PM The closest thing I've eaten to maggots would be bundegi (silkworm larvae) Do the maggots in the cheese really hop that high while you are eating it? The grossest (and saddest) food I've heard of is brain eaten from a live monkey in China. "A Chronicle of the Cultural Revolution author Gao Yuan describes looking inside restaurant windows of Guangzhou that "offered the famous monkey brains, served at a special table that locked the monkey's head in place; the waiter would open the skull and the diners would eat while the body wriggled under the table." " - from Wikipedia I've heard of ppl who have gone to China and eaten it..
	Bijou_7 Member (8454posts) 10/31/2007 1:11:00 PM PS. I have an extra can of silkworm larvae if anyone wants to try it.
	Temptasia Oldschool CVer (10460posts) 10/31/2007 1:14:00 PM save it for the CV Dinner: Fear Factor Edition