The name literally means rotten cheese, it’s intentionally filled with maggots to “ferment it,” ‘aficionados’ specifically think it’s unsafe if the maggots are dead so you’re supposed to eat them live BUT THEY CAN SURVIVE IN YOUR GI TRACT and make you very sick. The fucking maggots can jump 6 inches!
What the fuck is wrong with people?
I learned about this because I guess I’m supposed to make a vegan “Dublin coddle” tomorrow for work and I was like, what the fuck is a Dublin coddle? and the wikipedia mentioned how it looks gross so Dubliners get defensive about it the same way others do about their weird national delicacies
The thing is though it’s just slow simmered sausages and potatoes and shit, it looks gross because it’s sad peasant food. This rotten cheese shit is on an entirely different dimension of “fucking gross”
Wow imagine your traditional food being so bad that it’s illegal
Fuck foie gras and fuck France, unlimited genocide on the French for creating foie gras, among their other heinous crimes.
Yeah this one SHOULD be illegal
There’s an even worse one called “Ortolan” also from the French, with which they drove the bird to near extinction within France.
Also involves force feeding but even more cruel.
Looked into it, all of Europe should be turned into a nature preserve, as atonement.
I’ve tried it to see why some people go nuts for it. It’s cheeks. Like, I can appreciate all kinds of flavors and textures, but foie gras is forgettable at best and sure as hell not worth torturing animals for. I swear some people can taste suffering and they like it.