I knew about strange things that are eaten in Asia, South America, Africa & the Pacific Islands.

I never knew about this casu marzu

I often say that I eat anything...however in this case (among others) I will make an exception.

why................why why why why

with all the great food in italy,people are eating rotten maggot cheese,and you have to were glasses so the maggots dont jump in your eyes,i just dont get it.

Sorry that I read this post after dinner. YUK

Doc,
That is discusting. At lunch I read the thread on worst job, and now at dinner time, I'm reading about maggot infested cheese. I guess I needed to be off food being as it is the Christmas season. I guess it is a no food day for this old boy. I hope cigars have some nutritional value. Maybe I can eat a Macanudo. They are mild, but on the stomach....?

While we're on ths subject of f*cked up foods, does anyone know what those coffee beans are called that they pick out of monkey sh*t?

For those who don't know...apparently, there is some kind of coffee bean that is a staple in the diet of wild monkeys somewhere. They eat the beans, digest them, crap 'em and then another guy with a really bad job picks them out of the monkey crap and rinses them before roasting the beans.

Supposedly, the digestive action of the monkeys' systems does something magical to the beans and the result is reportedly sublime -- but also expensive.

Anyone else hear of this? I'd love to do an internet search but just can't bring myself to Google "monkey sh*t coffee bean crap pre-eaten" or something like that.

monkey sh!t bean coffee...lmao

starbucks will probably sell it in two weeks,for 6 bucks a cup

"Risk of enteric myiasis: intestinal larval infection. Piophila casei larvae can pass through the stomach alive (human stomach acids do not usually kill them) and take up residency for some period of time in the intestines, where they can cause serious lesions as they attempt to bore through the intestinal walls. Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, pain in the abdomen, and bloody diarrhea. "

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Originally posted by csmithnj:
"Risk of enteric myiasis: intestinal larval infection. Piophila casei larvae can pass through the stomach alive (human stomach acids do not usually kill them) and take up residency for some period of time in the intestines, where they can cause serious lesions as they attempt to bore through the intestinal walls. Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, pain in the abdomen, and bloody diarrhea. "

yes,but it taste's great

Found the monkey sh*t coffee!
(About $110 per pound, unroasted)

http://coffeetea.about.com/cs/kindsofcoffee/a/aakopiluwak.htm

http://www.animalcoffee.com/

http://www.thecoffeecritic.com/fusion3/html/kopi.shtml

Hey guys,
We may have an angle here. If we can find some tobacco, say a camaroon, that an elephant has urinated on, changing the flavor and characteristics of the leaf, maybe we could make cigars out of this and sell them for $1000 a piece! What do you think? Well, wait a minute, I'm sure Drew Estates has already thought of this. Oh well.....

OMG
How hungry can you be?

there is item from the Philipines that is a fertilized chicken egg, allowed to develop for a couple days, then burried in sand for a week and the young chick is suffocated. It then starts to decompose. The egg is then dug up and eaten, for breakfast of all meals.

Yum, got to get some of those....

The funny thing is that a Big Mac would probably seem as disgusting to a Sardinian gourmet as that maggot cheese seems to us.

Come to think of it, the cheese is probably also better for you...

As Sly put it : different strokes for different folks!