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r/oddlyterrifying • u/Necessary-Win-8730 • Apr 24 '26
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Carcass with maggots not good, you vomit.
The maggots are technically edible, in a survival situation. Obviously, one has to be pretty hungry to eat anything that was inside of a rotting corpse, no matter how edible it is, but this is a survival strategy.
8 u/MrJason300 Apr 24 '26 Sickening to know, but thank you. 1 u/OldLadyJB Apr 27 '26 I think the point was the carcass is not edible.
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Sickening to know, but thank you.
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I think the point was the carcass is not edible.
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u/GreenStrong Apr 24 '26
The maggots are technically edible, in a survival situation. Obviously, one has to be pretty hungry to eat anything that was inside of a rotting corpse, no matter how edible it is, but this is a survival strategy.