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Mary's avatar

Have you ever tried casu marzu? It is a sardinian pecorino cheese with insect larvae inside. It is delicious, creamy, pungent, and illegal. You might like it!

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Trevor Warmedahl's avatar

I’ve had it a few times, but I’ve yet to get at it when it’s young and prime, looking like a washed rind that grew legs and became a lacto-insectoid chimera. I wouldn’t say I liked what I’ve tasted so far, but that’s more reason to try again, and again.

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Jonathan Hadas Edwards's avatar

The Cheese at the End of Time! Can't tell if that sounds like comedy or horror. bit of both, maybe. Here's to the cheese road being long and winding...

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Trevor Warmedahl's avatar

Yeah I shamelessly lifted that from Terrence McKenna, “the transcendental object at the end of time”.

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Perry James Wakeman's avatar

Fascinating. For some reason, I never really though about the science behind cheese that are essentially starved of oxygen and what impact that could have on the cheese. I just create those actions, I think I might have to do some further reseach into this.

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