It’s illegal to buy and sell, 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 ...

This picture taken on September 24, 2019, shows a Casu Marzu, a Pecorino cheese from Sardinia with grubs at the Disgusting Food Museum exhibition displaying 80 of the world’s most disgusting ...

The cheese is banned from commercial sale, but Sardinians have been eating it, jumping grubs included, for centuries.

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.