It’s illegal to sell or buy, but casu marzu, a maggot-infested sheep milk cheese is a revered delicacy on the Italian island of Sardinia. Locals hope their unusual dairy product can shed its ...

It’s illegal to sell or buy, but casu marzu, a maggot-infested sheep milk cheese is a revered delicacy on the Italian island of Sardinia. Locals hope their unusual dairy product can shed its ...

Even looking at pictures of the cheese is somewhat naseauting, as the maggots that help create the cheese are prevalent within it. They’re also extremely active, and are capable of jumping up to ...

The cheese is produced by allowing Sardinian wheels of Pecorino to get infested as cheese skipper flies lay their eggs in its cracks. When the eggs hatch into maggots, the larvae start to eat and ...

And it is within these edgy curves that shepherds produce casu marzu, a maggot-infested cheese that, in 2009, the Guinness World Record proclaimed the world’s most dangerous cheese. Cheese skipper ...

It’s illegal to sell or buy, but casu marzu, a maggot-infested sheep milk cheese is a revered delicacy on the Italian island of Sardinia. Locals hope their unusual dairy product can shed its ...

When it comes to casu marzu that means getting past the initial appearance — a wriggling, writhing hunk of cheese infested ...

While it is being left to mature, cheese skipper flies - or Piophila casei - lay their eggs in gaps that form in the cheese. The maggots hatch and make their way through the cheese, digesting ...

Bite into this cheese from Sardinia at your own peril. Cazu marzu is made with maggots. If they're still alive when eaten, they can harm your health.

By Agostino Petroni, CNN (CNN) — The Italian island of Sardinia sits in the middle of the Tyrrhenian Sea, gazing at Italy from a distance. Surrounded by a 1,849-kilometer coastline of white ...

It looks a bit like the consistency of scrambled egg, and is created with the aid of maggots that remain alive and leaping in the cheese when it’s eaten by humans. The larvae are from the cheese ...