[Kivutar]

We have this where I come from (Corsica) and it's not so bad. You have to drink wine when eating this, like stroooong red wine.

Note that even if it's a traditional dish here, only a minority of people are OK to give it a try. Often to impress other people around the table.

My grandmother used to prepare it. It's quite simple to make. Put the right kind of cheese in a pot, cover it with a green cabage leaf, cover and wait for a week.

[thaumasiotes]

> it's not so bad.

> You have to drink wine when eating this, like stroooong red wine.

You know, I don't generally associate "you'd have to be dead drunk to eat this" with "it's not so bad".

[capableweb]

I don't think previous commenter was thinking about the promille of the wine but rather referring to a strong flavour, in order to mask the taste/feeling of eating maggots.

[brazzy]

Same thing on a different level, inspires just as little confidence in the statement that it's "not so bad".

[capableweb]

Hard disagree. If you have two dishes, the only one can only be eaten when "dead drunk" and the other one only with strong wine, then I'd say the first is most likely way worse than the second, if strong wine doesn't even mask the taste of the first one and requires you to be "dead drunk".

[crowbahr]

The urban legend I always heard was drink high ABV wine to kill the maggots in your stomach.

[tomcooks]

In most southern of Southern Europe drink strong wine !== get dead drunk.

It's just a matter of knowing what pairs best, or get rid of aftertaste if the food is peculiar.

[masklinn]

> I don't generally associate "you'd have to be dead drunk to eat this" with "it's not so bad".

If you translate « pair with a strong red » to « get dead drunk » it’s on you and you should get it fixed, it has nothing to do with Gp.

[capableweb]

> Some who eat the cheese prefer not to ingest the maggots. Those who do not wish to eat them place the cheese in a sealed paper bag. The maggots, starved for oxygen, writhe and jump in the bag, creating a "pitter-patter" sound. When the sounds subside, the maggots are dead and the cheese can be eaten.

Sounds like there is less protein rich ways of eating the cheese as well.

[thaumasiotes]

> Sounds like there is less protein rich ways of eating the cheese as well.

You know cheese is mostly protein, right? If you took out the protein, it would be butter, not cheese.

[capableweb]

I do know the origins of cheese :) My hypothesis is still that maggots contain more protein than cheese, but I've been wrong before so could be wrong here too, haven't actually checked that.

[the_af]

> We have this where I come from (Corsica) and it's not so bad.

Please tell me you've read "Asterix in Corsica". Goscinny makes at least a couple of jokes about Corsican cheese, and in one of them it's called "some kind of demented cheese" :P