These witches and warlocks survived by the prestige they earned daring to eat all manner of repulsive or impossible things. And since they and their audiences were always drunk, the demonstrations never failed to astound and amuse, and many surprising foods were thus introduced into the human diet, including fermented horse milk, cave-aged bleu cheese, surströmming, fermented skate wing, basturma, stinky tofu, pickled cud, and a selection of Chinese rotten plum drinks.