Cheese with Live Maggots!!!!

Okay, I got this when I went to the Ripley’s site off the “Garbage Island” thread, so I guess it’s a spinoff, but apparently there’s a place in Italy (?) where people eat a cheese that contains live maggots and it’s a delicacy? I guess maggots aren’t parasitical, so eating them live would not set up anything nasty in one’s body, right? Okay, different cultures and different strokes, but I mean DAMN! I would like to know the origin of this custom, if any of you can stomach writing about it! :eek:

Thanks

Quasi

You HAVE to love the SDMB.

A search (and I can understand why you would assume this one hasn’t be breached yet) of “cheese maggots” reveals the following:

I’ll have the maggot-riddled cheese, please.
Maggot cheese, anyone?
I like cheese, but this is gross!

Enjoy!

I shoulda known better than to think this was a new subject!
Mods, feel free to purge this. Man! Why all of a sudden all these “stomach” references??? “Purge”!!! :smiley:

Quasi

In a burst of synchronicity, somebody posted a link to with a picture in the “garbage island” thread that also has a small item about the maggot cheese with a picture:

http://www.spe.sony.com/tv/shows/ripleys/database/ep_203a.html

I don’t know whether to be disappointed or thankful that it is lacking in detail.

OOPS, I’m an utter idiot. I didn’t notice that that’s where this STARTED. Sorry about that.

Cheese with Live Maggots?

I’m pretty sure I saw those two bands play back in my college days. Of course Live Maggots was never the same after the whole flaming spumoni controversy.

What a Friend We Have…In Cheeses! :wink:

Quasi