The 20 Deadliest Foods

25 minute video. NO thanks. How about the Cliff Notes, sweetie? Do you ALWAYS open a conversation with a homework assignment?

Your choice to watch or pass. I'm giving you a B- for your strength of sarcasm though... As for me, I had some time to kill and found it interesting. Do look for the maggot cheese. #9, Casu Marzu Sardinian cheese.

Did anyone pull up the maggot cheese section? I posted that in the middle of the night so maybe not. It IS worth a look.

Nobody wants to see foul foods rotted!

PRUNES!

Oh honey. There have been 194,613 click bait "articles" and videos about that maggot cheese (Casu martzu) in the last decade and 1/2 to 1 million results on Google. Do you think we haven't heard of it?

I spent a summer in Sardinia and came across casu martzu. I really liked it, because the earthy tang of the cheese is balanced by the creaminess of the larvi.

If there are any dead maggots in it, it's not fit for eating. And the maggots are surprisingly resistant to being chewed until they release that smooth mixture of digested cheese and their own consistency. It's like biting into fat grains of rice and being rewarded with a warm squirt of flavor.

That’s Haggis in OP’s photo.

They're probably not deadly but I can't fathom how people can eat eel or octopus. I don't even want to look at them, ever.

Haggis is delicious.

I ate eel when I was 9 years old in Denmark in the 70s while visiting relatives. It tasted like chicken fried steak. I’m not sure if it’s a common food today or it was just trend back then.

I didn't watch but googled an article. I had no idea nutmeg is a hallucinogen.

I could never eat an octopus. They are such lovely creatures.

The things that surprised me were nutmeg, kidney beans and potatoes.

[quote]I could never eat an octopus. They are such lovely creatures.

And quite intelligent, as well, R13.

I already stay far away from mushrooms because they're just disgusting (the smell, the taste, the texture are all VILE). But this is a good reminder that NOBODY should ever use mushrooms in ANYTHING. Ever.

WTF are people even thinking eating those gross things?

R13, you didn't know about the potato sprouts or green parts? I've know about avoiding those my entire life. Similarly, I've known about peach and apricot and cherry pits being poisonous.

I was more surprised by the rhubarb leaves. I don't like rhubarb to begin with so I avoid it anyway, but that makes me want to avoid it even more. How do you trust a plant where you eat the stems but the leaves are deadly poison?

I'm surprised that Eggplant didn't make the list.

R7, I threw up in my mouth just reading that.

The two surprising ones to me were the kidney beans and star fruit.

Star Fruit was the only REALLY surprising one that I hadn't heard before. And since I have kidney issues (mostly stones) I'll avoid it from now on.

JFC. R7

I think I knew about all of these except for the one fish (not fugu) I had never heard of. But I’ll confess that I only learned about kidney beans about 5 years ago and I cooked them in a slow cooker maybe a hundred times over 25 years! Now I cook them in a pressure cooker.