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Originally Posted by MDimitri

The casu marzu was great tasting but you had to shield your eyes when eating it due to the fact that the larva had this uncanny ability to jump out and go straight for your eyes!! I do remember after eating it that I could have sworn i felt stuff crawling under my skin.....give's me the eebee jeebies just thinking about it!





Cheers!

Casu Marzu

Casu Marzu is a cheese made in Sardinia, Italy.

To make it, you start with pieces of Pecorino Sardo cheese. You set the cheese out in the open, uncovered, and allow cheese flies (aka scientific name "Piophila casei") to lay eggs in the cheese.

The eggs in it hatch into transparent white maggots about 1/3 inch (8 mm) long. Sometimes, instead of waiting for the flies to lay eggs, the maggots are introduced into the cheese at the maggot stage to speed the process along.

A piece of the Pecorino can be populated by thousands of maggots. As the maggots feed on the cheese, they cause the cheese to ferment and the fats in it to decompose. The cheese becomes very soft, with liquid weeping out of it. The drops of liquid are called "lagrima", meaning "tears."

The finished cheese has a very strong, pungent burning taste. It is generally served with the Sardinian bread called "pane carasau" and red wine.

Some people wear eye protection when eating the cheese, because the maggots can jump up to 6 inches (15 cm.)

Some remove the maggots before eating the cheese, most people do not. They just focus on eating the cheese.

The maggots can be forced out by sealing the cheese in a bag, suffocating them. You'll hear the worms hitting the side of the bag as they jump out of the cheese, looking for air.

Casu Marzu is seen as a manly thing to eat. Most women tend to avoid it.

People consuming it reputedly run the risk of the larvae, which can remain unaffected by stomach acids, taking up residency in the intestines and boring through their flesh. It cannot legally be sold in Italy, but it is sold on the black market in Sardinia. At markets in Sardinia, it is often kept under the table for trusted customers.

It is particularly served at special occasions such as weddings, birthdays and bachelor parties. The ban on the cheese has just given the eating experience an extra edge.

If you ate that your a sick sister fuvker !!!