I am quite adventurous when it comes to food but there are things that can really be so disgusting that putting them in my mouth is out of the question. If you watch Andrew Zimmern’s Bizarre Foods, you’ll have a fairly good idea of how one country’s food can be another’s poison and you’ll know where to draw the line. Zimmern says there’s a psychological barrier that prevents us from trying out foods that are very different from what we are accustomed to consuming. He has a point, but I need that barrier in certain situations – perhaps in an awkward situation where a host offers me a generous serving of Maggot Cheese on my toast.
I am not a cheese person but I’d try the stinkiest cheese around. However, a tub of cheese with creepy crawly maggots dancing and putting their tails up in the air like they just don’t care….may be a little too much for my stomach to take. There’s just some things that I am not keen on trying. But then again between bungee jumping and the maggot cheese eating, I might be crazy enough to do the latter.
Italian Maggot Cheese or Casu Marzu, as the name suggests, is a maggot-infested cheese that is eaten in Sardinia. Gordon Ramsay featured this in his show, F-Word. Watch it here.
If you are too lazy to watch, then let me summarize:
1. Fresh milk from the sheep is used to make Pecorino cheese
2. Cure for 3 weeks
3. Invite the flies to lay their eggs in the cheese
4. Cheese is left for 2 to 3 months in a dark cool hut to allow the eggs to hatch into larvae
5. Eat
It certainly is not for the usual bunch of foodies and only the most curious would dare subject himself/herself to the dangers of eating maggots. Would you eat something that eats you back?
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