I was in a convenience store last night, and the guy had some program on the TV which was showing how some certain cheese is prepared.
Part of the process is to let flies lay eggs on it, because the maggots are important to the process.
What’s the deal here?
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I first heard about maggot cheese over 40 years ago while growing up in my Italian-American neighborhood in New York. The stuff was still being eaten by the old-timers, including some of my relatives. I actually got to see a piece of the stuff in a neighbor’s apartment, and it was just as disgusting as you might imagine. This vile delicacy went by the name of “guaglia” cheeze. At least that is how I imagine it is spelled…it was pronounced that way in the regional dialect.
My own father and his two brothers claimed to have sampled the stuff in their youth, but I never saw them eat it as adults. I suspect they were just bragging to us kids.
In any case, my father, who was not lacking in a sense of humor, had a few things to say about this alleged delicacy. I remember two of his comments particularly.
First, he extolled the fact that the squirming maggots provided an “exhilarating” sensation to the palate and gullet as they were swallowed. This tactile sensation was unique in gastronomy.
Second, he took an apparently philosophical position on this delicacy, commenting in the most serious tone imaginable, “Well if they get to eat us eventually, why shouldn’t we enjoy eating them?”
My dad was a really funny guy. For years I tried to talk him into cremation, but he never saw the point of that, and we respected his wishes.