We’ve discussed “casu marzu” on this Board before. I was curious about it, so I looked for a picture. This is the closest thing I could find – a painting “inspired” by the artist’s meal of the interesting cheese. It doesn’t look that gross, until you remember what’s in it:
According to this site, there are other cheeses that can actually give Casu Marzu a run for its money:
http://www.rurou.org/archives/000106.html
I have come to the conclusion that people will eat or drink anything with nonzero taste.
So…
…can we add casu marzu to the SDMB initiation ritual? The goat, the straw, the calamari, and the cheese. Heh heh heh…
http://www.luifilm.com/photo/Cazu.jpg
Of course I think you really need an animated version to get the maggot leaping effect…
It ain’t as bad as the cheese, but I still think weasel-excreted cofee is pretty gross:
http://organicafe.com/futures.html
This site demurely suggests the coffee is “regurgitated”, but we know better =-- it’s been pooped out.
I think Casu Marzu washed down by Weasel Coffee has the potential to be the ultimate gross-out meal. People will, I swear, eat just about anything. Both these foods are supposed to be “enhanced” by the natural enzymes and secretions of the animals involved – as if this is a good thing. Perhaps I should come out with a line of chewing gum that has been soaked in crocodile bile. I could make the same claims for it.
I spent three years in Asia, and ate snake, bugs, dog, hog penises, and I don’t even want to think about what else. I’m pretty flexible.
Thousand-year eggs are the foulest thing I’ve ever encountered. By far.
Oh man. Rose is like the greatest flavor ever!
If you ever get the chance, try some Rooh-Afza. It’s a sweet Indian syrup that’s a mix of several flavors, with rose predominating. You mix it with some milk and wind up with a truly delicious nectar.
In my opinion, you’re winning for the most abhorent food described in this thread :eek:
I looked at the URL very quickly and I could swear it said “santorum.co.nz”.
Yikes!
I just rememberd another one I saw in some dated film posted on the wilds of the interenet somewhere. Link long gone. Take it for what you will.
Two men and two women in Western clothing walk into a restaurant in someplace clearly in the Middle East. Waiter brings out a live, small money. The monkey is attached to the table in such a way that the top of it’s head is above the table and the body is dangling below. The waiter demonstrates, and one of the men subsequently gets way enthusiastic about what he’s supposed to do. With a small hammer, the man beats on the top of the monkey’s skull for about 5 minutes. The other people are recoiling in disgust. The monkey eventually dies/blacks out. The waiter uses another tool to remove the broken bone and junk until the brain is exposed. The people dig in.
Like I said, the video was old and may have even been staged. Will try to find a link, but no promises.
In college, I had a roommate who had no sense of smell, therefore a very limited sense of taste. He would combine foods based on texture alone. I saw him prepare oatmeal with peas, and Ramen noodles with raisins.
Now, I know it’s not Casu Marzu, but still, yuck.
That was from the first Faces of Death movie and i’m almost certain it was staged.
Oh Yeah! Now I remember. I was going nuts trying to dig it up on the internet. It was staged? Good.
How in the hell do you “stage” that? What do you mean staged? It’d be kind of hard to fake that kind of scene.
Well, yes, but easy to buy a monkey and hire three actors to do it. The film was 1978; PETA was started in 1980.
So you are saying that people bought a monkey, hired actors, then had the actors actually tear out and eat the monkey’s brains? How is that staged? It actually happened, didn’t it?
The old Monkey Bait and Switch.
About two years ago my wife and I went to the famous Cantor’s Delicatessen on Fairfax, and she ordered corned beef and cabbage. So what, you say? How bad can that be? What was so bad about it was that it was massive. The plate appeared to be piled 12 inches deep with layers of meat and cabbage. Unfortunately it reminded me of a cartoon by Kliban–whom you may remember as a sort of low rent Gary Larson–the point of said cartoon being “Never eat anything bigger than your head.” The plate they set down in front of my wife looked just like the one in the cartoon.
Well, yeah. But I never ordered it in a restaurant.
(mind the OP, please. Lest ye melt, and fall to earth.)
I should put in that I often order pizza with Mushrooms, Anchovy, and Pineapple. that squicks some people out, but everyone who’s actually tried it agrees it’s good. The Salt and sweet balance well, the mushrooms are just so you can call the pie “Fish, Fruit and Fungus.”