would you eat cheese made from bacteria harvested from your (or someone else's) toe or armpit or other bodypart

do your market research somewhere else

no

I would consider eating my own if scientists told me it tasted really good but I probably would not eat other peoples even if scientists told me it tasted really good

bluergh no

http://i.imgur.com/IOfUl.jpg

according to the scientist the cheese tastes like a 'fresh mozzarella'

yeah but then you could just eat fresh mozzarella

it would have to taste *better*

http://i.imgur.com/mPTJe.jpg

Limburger is a cheese that originated during the 19th century in the historical Duchy of Limburg, which is now divided among modern-day Belgium, Germany, and Netherlands. The cheese is especially known for its pungent odor commonly compared to body odor.

Once it reaches three months, the cheese produces its notorious smell because the bacterium used to ferment Limburger cheese and many other smear-ripened cheeses[2] is Brevibacterium linens, the same one found on human skin that is partially responsible for body odor and particularly foot odor.

I like to imagine that somebody left a pail of milk outside, some peasant accidentally stepped in it, three months went by and the lord of the manor came out and said "hey, this cheese tastes pretty good!"

i love moldy cheese and i have never enquired too closely as to where the bacteria come from, i think i'd prefer not to know

sure why not

lol @ anybody who votes "no," you're eating armpit & toe bacteria every day already in your meats and on your veggies too, embrace the blissful truth of your reality & chow down, the future will involve getting to pick the person whose bacteria will curdle your cheese

you could make cheese by leaving whey in your boots and just wearing your boots every day until you get cheese

prison cheese

in 2036, local artisanal boot cheese became popular with the gentry class, with stalls sprouting up on every hover walkway in New Brooklyn

The sooner they invent the Star Trek food replicator, the sooner I can stop eating organic filth.

iatee do you think you could taste the difference between fresh mozzarella and fresh toe cheese

well I would have to taste toe cheese first to find out how similar they really were but being that I am not a supertaster like you maybe I really wouldn't notice the difference

mark ruffalo mozzarella

Wensleydale Earnhardt, Jr

I just might actually. Brevibacterium linens is also used to make Napoleon's favorite cheese, called the king of cheeses by Brillat-Savarin:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/%C3%89poisses_de_Bourgogne.jpg/260px-%C3%89poisses_de_Bourgogne.jpg

Cheddarraghmac

honestly almost all dairy products seem disgusting when you start thinking where they come from or how they're made, so the fact that the bacteria come from a human person isn't such a big deal

i suspect you are working up to justfying eating people's treasured books for a living.

I like how everyone zeroed in on "toe" and completely ignored "other bodypart"

I guess asscrack cheese is a step too far for adventurous ILX chowhounds

what would yelp reviews of asscrack cheese be like?

cheese and asscrackers?

The site was named "Yelp" after the strangulated cries of anguish reviewers made when they discovered most of the food they were reviewing contained taint and asscrack bacteria.

i hate you dayo

dayo is just yanking our chains. i'm not a picky eater. he'd have to produce some of these items for me to evaluate before i'd say definitely whether i'd eat them, but if they were non-toxic and smelled passable, i'd give them at least a try.

I was just thinking that we needed a good, old fashioned entertaining thread about food or poop and here we are. Good job, dayo!

I voted no, but it was kind of a knee jerk thing. I could probably be talked into it.

i don't think people are objecting to incidental mancheese. it's artisanal mancheese that brings the horror.

aimless sort of otm, I'm just interested in exploring people's double standards for things, like:

pet owners: is it gross that your pet poops and doesn't wipe

Voted yes. We already drink probiotics (the bacteria that live in our guts) and use toothpastes and chewing gums that contain carbamide (a.k.a. urea, where the word urine comes from), so why not?

(Etymological correction: it's the other way round. Urea is named after urine.)

My own? I'd probably be curious enough to try. Someone else's? idk 'bout that.

What about breastmilk cheese?

depends on the breasts

plus y'all know damn well i will eat anything at least once

Anything to do with feet = no

I wish people had developed hooves or something less disgusting than feet.

Hooves are pretty disgusting, though. It would be like having feet made entirely of your toenails.

tbh i'd probably eat toenails too

even paula deen's?

FUCK NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Paula Deen's just taste like butter, anyway

I guess asscrack cheese is a step too far for adventurous ILX chowhounds

Coming soon...Fromunda Fromage Inc.

guys i meant to tell you i run http://fuckyeahpauladeenstoenails.tumblr.com

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i eat the crud in my eyes when i wake.if i have a scab i'll peel it and chew it for awhile. i've eaten my butt lint. and just to be normal here..i smoke and sleep too much..
― kevin enas, Wednesday, July 4, 2001 8:00 PM (10 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ah, the pearls from old-school ILX.

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the answer is no because there is other, normal people, less-expensive cheese to eat

all the more reason to market people-bacteria cheese for yuppie foodies, methinks.

don't know it until you try it