Casu Marzu

/KAH-soo MAHR-tsoo/
[Italian]

"Rotten cheese." A pungent, crumbly cow or goat's milk cheese from the Gallura region of Sardinia, with a smell living up to its name in the local dialect, and also so named because of the maggots (which some describe as small black worms and others as insect larvae - I suspect the latter) which live in the cheese.

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