Definite NO-NO...been vegetarian for over 30 yearsHow about maggots for dinner? No? So how about this: maggots, but they're massive, and still alive?
Definite NO-NO...been vegetarian for over 30 yearsHow about maggots for dinner? No? So how about this: maggots, but they're massive, and still alive?
The maggots are still alive when the cheese is unwrapped
I did not know that!I am old enough to remember the sixties, when Gorgonzola was sold complete with maggots in the UK. I think this was normal at the period, as I observed it in a specialist cheese-shop that had a good reputation!
I am old enough to remember the sixties, when Gorgonzola was sold complete with maggots in the UK. I think this was normal at the period, as I observed it in a specialist cheese-shop that had a good reputation!
I don't remember that at all.Didn't Stilton used to have maggots in it? Before all those EU regulations, of course.
Or possibly just before people realised that was disgusting.
I think it was Stilton I saw on TV. An old chap liked it maggoty. Apparently the grubs are rich and buttery being on an all stilton diet.
As for weevils...well. Always choose the lesser of two weevils.I've read somewhere - thought it was in Samuel Pepys' diary, but can't find a mention now - that cheese eaten by Royal Navy officers was so wormy that you'd need a special spoon to collect and eat them with.
Was it a wheel of Stilton that Pepys buried during the great fire of London?
Was it a wheel of Stilton that Pepys buried during the great fire of London?
Stilton cheese with maggots gets a mention in Daniel Defoe's A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain,
Oh, that's very interesting. I prefer my lichen unpredigested but anything's worth a try.Regarding eating-half digested lichen, they do something similar in Greenland. It was just about the only vegetables they had a chance of eating.
I had an office mate in London who got that hakarl as a gag gift one Christmas. On opening it he vomited and had to dispose of it in a public bin.In terms of consuming the inedible the Scandinavians take a lot of beating:
Consider Kæstur hákarl. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hákarl What wikipedia has conveniently left out is that it is normal to actually have the whole family pee on the shark before they bury it. You know, because it shows respect for the shark and makes it taste better.
Then there is Lutefisk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutefisk You take poor innocent whitebait and destroy it by soaking it in lye, then washing it for a couple of days under a running tap to render it safe for human consumption (by which I mean that it is safe to feed to tuberculosis bacteria).
They also eat whale blubber, which tastes like burnt fat but with all the calories of burnt fat, because it is basically burnt fat. On the other hand, give some of the other things on the menu, you can see why they haven't given up whaling.
:agree: That is after all, why they call it a gag gift I suppose.I had an office mate in London who got that hakarl as a gag gift one Christmas. On opening it he vomited and had to dispose of it in a public bin.
The jury's out on that.Consider Kæstur hákarl. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hákarl What wikipedia has conveniently left out is that it is normal to actually have the whole family pee on the shark before they bury it. You know, because it shows respect for the shark and makes it taste better.