Cheese is a wonderful invention when you think about it. Basically, it’s milk fermented to a degree that causes it to become delicious (more so when sliced and placed on a hamburger), but not enough to make it unfit for human consumption. The Casu Marzu cheese, on the other hand, laughs at such limitations even though it really, really shouldn’t.
Casu Marzu is a soft, putrid, totally-decomposed-from-where-I-am-standing cheese that is the final product of cheese fly larvae activity. Yes, the cheese is made by letting a bunch of flies have sex and birth their disgusting babies inside it. And then people want to eat it.
Unsurprisingly, the cheese is banned almost everywhere in the world, but you have to wonder. What place on Earth values their and other people’s lives so little to produce a thing like Casu Marzu? What nation would be this hardcore? Is it some small village in Siberia populated only be ex-Spetsnaz soldiers, or maybe an entirely new breed of humans which emerged from the volcanic bellows of Hawaii?
What? It’s from Sardinia? No, that can’t be right. Huh…mental note: never, EVER piss off a Sardinian.
4. Century Egg
Since we are already on the topic of cheese, it’s good to mention that many other foods acquire a richer taste as they age. Wine would be a good example. But very rarely on a list of such foods would you ever find eggs…unless you’re in China.
Say hello to the Chinese century egg, made by preserving it in a husk of clay, ash or lime for several weeks or even months. This process breaks down some of the compounds of the egg and pickles it from the inside out in a very unique way, also turning it greenish-black. The process is actually quite sophisticated, as it ferments the eggs but does not spoil it, which is of course akin to praising someone for skillfully learning to drive a car using only their chest hair.
According to some account, the century egg is so pungent that the smell alone could knock out an 18th century dung farmer.
3. Balut
If you want to see pictures of this abomination (which are sad beyond belief), you’ll have to click the source below. For the sake of this article’s sanity, however, we’ll stick with fluffy bunny rabbits.
Now then. We’re still in the domain of weird eggs, this one coming from the Philippines.
The recipe for Balut is as simple as it is cruel and insane. First, you take a standard fertilized duck egg, then you let the little baby duck inside grow safely in the shell, all tra-la-la-dee without a care in the world. Then, when the fetus is sorta formed but not completely, you boil the “egg” alive and eat it because to Hell with ducks, that’s why! What’s this feeling when you want to both cry and throw up in your mouth at the same time? Someone should really invent a name for it, like “cromit” (cry + vomit) or weerl (weep + hurl).
2. Raw Blood Soup
Did I say that the recipe for Balut was simple? Well it has nothing on the traditional Vietnamese dish of Tiet Canh. Check it out: take duck blood, add duck meat plus spices, then eat. Alright, alright, the actual process is sometimes more complicated than that but, once your main ingredient is raw blood, all the other stuff about the dish kinda stops being important. On the other hand, forcing your significant other to sit down to a plateful of Tiet Canh might finally get them a) off that whole Twilight craze, and b) to give you that divorce you wanted.
1. Bats
As with Balut, TopTenz wishes to save you thousands of dollars on therapy bills by not showing any actual pictures. Instead, you get Batman.
So, apparently some people in Asia, especially in one village in Thailand, like to eat bats. Guys, really; if you want to commit suicide this much, there are easier ways than trying to make Ol’ Bats up here break his no-killing cardinal rule for you.
The Thai Bat is prepared thusly: first you kill the bats by plunging them into boiling water while alive. Then the bats are skinned, grilled and chopped up into a fine paste with herbs, though they can very well be eaten whole. For a more visual and way more traumatizing look at eating bats, check out the video in the source. Then go find a fun new hobby to fill those late-night hours which you used to pass with wonderful, blissful sleep.
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