Giant 2,000-year-old hunk of bog butter just found - and it's still edible

Add it to the appropriate insults thread, man.

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Whoa. Was that something you already knew about, or should we thank the gods of Google?

For the record, I love stinky cheese…and am not a fan of stinky feet, especially in my drink!

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Pretty sure the Yiddish meaning is where we get the English slang.

ā€œslangā€ is Dutch/Afrikaans for snake.

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Oh for crying out butter!

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You’re not alone. I’d happily try it too. I love Stilton. Wait, that might be a bad example since my mother who doesn’t care for most blue cheeses likes Stilton too. But I also like Roquefort and Gorgonzola. And other stinky cheeses.

It’s the fact that I’d be willing to try 150-year old beer brought up from a shipwreck solely because it’s beer that raises the possibility that there’s something wrong with me.

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Okay you’d go for stinky cheese and old beer and bog butter, but how about casu marzu from Sardinia?

Now that’s a step too far for me…

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How do you go from ā€œI found this goo in a swamp,ā€ to ā€œLet’s eat it,ā€?

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Here north of the wall it’s fairly notorious, but the first rule of rotten feet club…

garbage compost has never failed me. I have an infinite supply being a messy human and it is totally free.

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Living in the raccoon capitol of the world… compost heaps can be a challenge.

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Yay weird/wonderful shit that doesn’t make my faith in humanity die looking at it.

Still not eating that, because edible does not mean good tasting.

We have a backyard compost bin (aka raccoon salad bar), and the lid gets knocked off on a regular basis. I consider a certain amount of ullage unavoidable, but turning the fresh scraps over to mix them with the well-rotted compost seems to make them less palatable to our little ringtailed buddies.

It occurs to me that this may be the raccoon equivalent of bog butter.

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I think that’s a step too far for me too. I’ll try almost anything but I prefer my food to be immobile.That’s why I could never eat at a Klingon restaurant. Or at least not gagh.

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ā€œHe was a bold man that first ate an oysterā€

  • Jonathan Swift
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Back in the day when I still allowed side ads in gmail, I remember this one: ā€œGlory holes? You can find anything at Amazon.com!ā€ I really wish I had saved that one.

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They can be some ballsy suckers, too

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:smile: I learned long ago to not question other folk’s predilections.

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Why in the olden days did they bury it in a bog and just not buy one of these? Gosh, it’s like they didn’t have Williams Sonoma or something.

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