Do People Really Eat Cheese Made with Maggots?

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It is my understanding that there is a cheese wherin the affinage is brought about by using maggots on the rind. Have no clue as to country or name.

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If you get a chance check out the front page article of today’s Wall Street Journal on cheese with maggots in it (“Casu Marzu”) eaten in Sardinia as a delicacy. I’ve eaten some strange things (grubs in...

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the article, it essentially consists of a wheel of maggot-infested pecorino that one then proceeds to eat! The infestation apparently imparts a particular pungency to the cheese.... I’m wondering if any 'hounds have ever...

I searched and you are correct , a previous post does discuss "cheese with maggots in it (“Casu Marzu”) eaten in Sardinia as a delicacy" Yummm

plate. i don’t know if i could do it considering i used to have one as a pet. BUT.... to start off a chowhound top 50 things to eat before you die: - maggot cheese from italy (can’t remember the city) it’s...

try: huitlacoche (corn smut) and casu marzu, that forbidden cheese that’s left to rot in the sun and only eaten when crawling with maggots.

well not for nuttin', but don’t the provincial italians eat some kind of weird cheese that’s maggot infested? ali