There’s a reindeer cheese that is considered a delicacy that has actual maggots in it. Another orange cheese that has fucking mites! I don’t mind my stinky cheese, but I’m not eating anything moving.
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58008@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Food is so weird. Bread becomes toxic waste after 8 minutes of being opened, but there’s probably some cheese species that gets fermented up the asshole of a mountain llama for 6 months, being stuffed back in after every bowel movement, and is still edible (if you’re into that sort of thing) after 400 years of being left in a dank cave amongst the frothing remains of a rotting gerbil cemetery.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 9 hours ago
WeirdyTrip@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
Casu marzu, “rotten cheese”, NSFL. This is sheep’s milk, not reindeer, but still. Horrifying.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
Thank you for warning me not to click this.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
You beautiful bastard that was wonderful!
BanMe@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Cheese is weird because someone had to be like, well let’s go ahead and store some milk in the stomach of an animal, but also they forgot about it under a chair for 3 months and then, upon finding it, thought, “well let’s have a go anyway, despite it changing forms.” And then eventually someone realized if you stuck it in certain caves it became delicious. So much human history just in that one food product there.
axx@slrpnk.net 2 hours ago
I think one theory is that it was central Asian horse-riding societies who started carrying milk on horseback, in saddlebags made out of animal bladders. The motion of the riding and the rennet left in the bladders churned the milk and turned it into cheese.
I remember also reading on a science magazine’s site this possibility that the first cheese made by humans was more of yeast-based preparation, without animal milk, but i can’t find the article mentioning that anymore.
deHaga@feddit.uk 1 hour ago
Isn’t it butter if it’s churned?