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Casu marzu is considered toxic when the maggots in the cheese have died.

Boing Boing 2009

Casu marzu is an illegal Sardinian cheese that is served riddled with writhing maggots that try to jump into your eyeballs as you eat it.

Boing Boing 2009

Casu marzu is a sheep cheese popular on the Italian island of Sardinia.

You Eat That? Rachel Herz 2012

Each of these, in their own way, introduces fascinating settings (a dream museum in "Morpheus House" and a remote religious community in "Sanctuary Run") or objects (the oddest cheese you've ever encountered in "A Taste of Casu Marzu"), but seem to stop shortly after introducing them, as though the thing itself were so odd that the story didn't require further development.

Archive 2010-01-01 2010

Casu marzu is especially delicious because it contains insect larvae.

Archive 2008-02-01 BikeSnobNYC 2008

Casu marzu also called casu modde or formaggio marcio is a cheese found in Sardinia, Italy, notable for being riddled with live insect larvae.

Archive 2006-01-01 Will 2006

"De Casu Diaboli" (cap. iv); for the saint felt that the angelic intellect, at any rate, must see the force of the "ontological argument" (see ONTOLOGY).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

Ye shall see also in the history of Bochas, in his book De Casu Principum, part of his noble

Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1 1903

Casu marzu literally means "rotten cheese" in cheese fly Piophila casei.

WordPress.com News 2009

Casu marzu is considered toxic when the maggots in the cheese have died.

WordPress.com News 2009