This Rare Cheese Is Infested With Live Maggots
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- Опубліковано 2 січ 2019
- “Casu marzu” literally means “rotten cheese,” but in Sardinia, it’s a glory to behold. What starts off as a regular wheel of pecorino is then visited by cheese flies that lay their eggs inside, giving the formaggio its signature zing. But, with a nickname like “the world’s most dangerous cheese,” you can be sure that along with the cheese comes some risky business. Still, a handful of artisans continue to produce the traditional cheese, cementing its status in Sardinian culture.
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LET'S GOOO
you vill eat ze bugs
I know that voice... at least it sounds very familiar... Daven?
hahaha💪🏻
Maggot: takes a shit
People: This is some serious gourmet shit!
LMAO IM DYING
Literally
Literally gourmet shit
Wow... I... that is actually what it is
Goddamn jimmy
Maggot shit cheese.... my favorite
😂😂😂
Lol
Super funny 😆
Lol i launhed a
So hard :))
bwahhhhhaaaaaaaaaa!!! EWWW
I still can‘t believe some guy, at some point in time looked at some maggot infested cheese in a trash can and said: „That‘s probably still edible, lemme give it a go.“
Nobody would eat that unless they're starving or well... they have mental disorders
He probably was starving
That's exactly what I was thinking 😂😅
What's crazier is that they then went on a mission to find out on how to repeat that maggot infested cheese 😂😂
Everything is edible if you think about it. Certain things only once.
I'm Italian and I absolutely love ALL Italian food... almost. This goes way too far for me.
Amen to that 💯
The Japanese have something similar-ish, but instead of maggots, it's poison and the risk is the main selling point.
@@azazel166 Fugu
@@danieldevito6380 Yes, that one.
@@azazel166 Japanese chefs need to get licensed in order to serve Fugu. They're so skilled that there are like no deaths each year from eating it. The difference between Fugu and this cheese is that this cheese is completely unregulated, and if you're not used to eating it your whole life, even a small bite could make you extremely ill or even kill you.
“ It’s ilegal to sell, but some farmers like Simone continue to make it *just for themselves* ”
_suuure..._
Infatti
they still sell cigarets and achool even tho is poinson
that's exactly what i was thinking lol
maybe it's a big family though
It's not illegal coz it's actually healthy
Maggots: *take a shit*
These guys: _"Finally some good fucking food!"_
🤣
i will report u for saying bad word
(This is a joke)
what does shit mean
@@sustheshm2726 and plus his name is
A bc hes such a kid u can tell
@@sustheshm2726 and his channel he said he is christian but spelled it wrong
This is why the Carthaginians gladly gave Sardinia to the Romans
Lmao 🤣😂
Niche. I like your spirit
😅
My last name is Carthage in Spanish 😂 I appreciate this comment.
I won't try it but I'm happy that this guy is keeping this tradition alive. It's fascinating
That's the type of comment I like the most! Not a meme, not a statement, but a kind opinion. Especially, that your opinion is not 0/1. It's positive and you are paying respect for someone's passion. Have a nice day!
@@polandsilver3419 That's the type of reply i like the most! Not a mean comment, no racial slurs and derogatory language, but a kind view point of someone else's comment. Especially, that your view point is not 0/1. It's positive and you are letting @rannierunsfast know that he has a kind opinion. Have a good day!
@@dallasvillella416 that’s the type of a replying from a reply i like the most! Not a joke,Not hate just a good opinion about that Especially, that your view point is not 0/1. It's positive and you are letting @PolandSilver know that he has a kind opinion. Have a good day!
@@nissivibes8217 I hate you reply because it's actually a joke after the second degree of link the comment chain you have done it to the third I will not be nice and will not reference the aforementioned mentioned OP's.
"it's tradition" is a horrible excuse to persist in anything.
I personally prefer my maggots to be without cheese, thank you very much.
Ponderer Of Pointless Dreams i eat this everyday its yummy
Your pfp scares me :(
It's fucking good tbh
_[jazz music stops]_
😂😂😂
I rather stick to my school lunch, thank you.
tiffany タコス this is my school lunch lmao
@@unduelist5688 😂
Your only sticking with it, because your just like other people who doest appreciate other foods
@-Tcáf- 😂😂😂
Whats the difference anyway.
It looks delicious and absolutely repulsing at the same time. I wanna try it so badly but I’m super afraid of maggots and just wriggly stuff. Like grubs and shit like that.
I’d only eat it if all of the maggots were taken off of it.
ust don't eat the worms, it stays soft and spreads on bread. It has a delicious spicy pecorino taste. It has been around for 4,000 years and no one has ever died from eating it. Lots of tourists look for it
@@askallois”no one has died from it”
The cheese being a maggot cemetery
I kinda wanna try it too
I hope they keep their tradition going. I mean it’s theirs and there’s nothing wrong with their health.
Right, they look pretty healthy to me!
@@Me-zo8yc They got them anti-maggot acid in their stomachs
I don't think they are mentally healthy.
@@SquirrelASMRwhy?
Sardinians are notoriously the humans with the longest life expectancy, together with the Japanese. And I am not a Sardinian, no bias here.
*Cheese gets invaded by maggots*
Italian: "MAMMA MIA!"
😂😂😂
😱 some of them eat it as well but it is really funny 😂😅
"HERE WE GO AGAIN"
I'm Italian and I dont
@@accountacaso362 probably because it is illegal to sell...
Maggots: don’t mind us, we’re enjoying the cheese too!
Italians: And we are enjoying your shit, too
@@rookieman329 And your soul!
Bill Wang 🤣🤣🤣
*Damn*
Italians:We are enjoying The cheese with you in it.
There's a reason local delicacies stay local.
I know you felt that itch
Itch?
I was gagging
Shadow Fox7000 sadly
What itch? You meaning the feeling of things crawling inside your mouth? Yep, just felt it right now.
Shadow Fox7000 OMG TRU
I felt it on the side of my neck
Cheese: Exists
Maggots: It's free real estate
Farmers: Its free real estate
🤣🤣🤣🤣
It is but then you never make it to your final form - cheese flies.
@Kool Aid. Jealous much?
😂 best most thought out comment
i would not personally eat this but this is so fascinating! i want to know the origins and the actual process the maggots take the cheese through and everything that comes with it!
I think that maggots basically eat the cheese, then digest it using their enzimes that decompose fats and proteins, at the same time disinfecting the cheese and preventing dangerous microorganisms to thrive in it. And poop it out
The translation of the last sentence is wrong. "È la morte sua", referring to food, doesn't mean "it's to die for", it means "that's the best way to eat it" (with ham and melon, according to this farmer).
It still works
“This cheese has maggots in it!”
Guy trying to sell bad cheese: “oh you haven’t heard?”
Pat Fam dead
That the bird is the word
you can't sell it ye knobhead
hahahaha probably how this got created!!
This... this was genuinely funny.
Well done.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👌🏻👍🏻
Imagine how high or insane the inventor was
Probably just in poverty and starving
@@drunkenwhaler9507 that has enough to have sheep's milk and wait for months for the cheese to be served? *Oh my Lord.*
@@yourmom66600 Implying there's absolutely no way someone could fuck up trying to preserve something, or that there's no way somebody would rather keep a live milk producing animal than a limited amount of meat.
Maybe someone just forgot about the cheese then found it and ate it.
aging cheese is normal. your parmesian was probably aged for 2 years. odds are the founded forgot to store it in a barrel and ended up not wanting to waste it
I saw 2 danish cheese experts trying this, the camera man fainted and the experts said they loved it, while it sounded like they were about to puke
Please provide a link, I'd love to watch it
Like all proud italians the story of this cheese went as follows:
Some italian guy is bragging about his tastiest sheep cheese.
A high lord or a king/queen heard this and wanted to taste the cheese.
The guy is now put under a lot of pressure but also praise for such a noble persona wanting to taste his cheese
He keeps bragging and forgets to seal off the cheese.
Day before arrival he notices his cheese is full of maggots and he forgot to cover it.
Having no choice and feeling too proud he decided to make up a story about it in hope they accept his story.
Stupidly enough the nobles didnt want to have their noble taste being appraised as worse than the rumors of mere peasants. So he/she followed the cheese man's act and said it was good.
Now many years later we are eating maggot shit because 1 italian was too proud to admit he made an error not covering up the cheese and the other one being too proud to admit he was eating maggot infested cheese which should be tasty according to the rumors.
The Emperor's New Cheese?
0.1% Cheese
*99.9% Maggot’s*
MASA NJING?
@@orang9178 Please don't
Yeah 99.9% maggot shit😂
Lol
Sweet land of liberty
I imagine this was invented accidentally, some idiot must have forgetten the cheese he stored and thought to himself, meh, what a waste of good cheese. Might as well eat it.
yes. indeed
Actually the original version of the Casu Marzu was made that way, because sometimes the cheese form has some cracks and the fly goes in, so yeah it was invented accidentally.
Yea
Ngl thats how a lot of inventions were made
@@abdulrahmanmohamed5571 no shit. Even penicilin was invented this way
"It's his death!" is an Italian idiom that can be translated: "it's to die for!". I would like to point out that the inhabitants of Sardinia are one of the longest-lived peoples in the world ...
Wiggly cheese is one of the most upsetting things I can think of. It makes me so unhappy. I’m in New York and Sardinia is still too close. I can never be at peace so long as wiggly cheese exists :/
Blue cheese: I am mold
Italy:Hold my maggots
Blue cheese is delicious tho 👌
@@Khan-_-Art1st dude wtf
@@chosen8739 Cordyceps cheese
“Actually, I’ll need them back. For the *TASTE* “.
*BLUE CHEESE HAS MOLD IN IT*
“its to die for" literally figuratively and literally
Nobody ever died for this cheese btw
In Italy “ it’s to die for “ is used to say “ it’s so good I would die to eat some “ or at least what I’ve always been taught.
Temp Vlog
Do you always take things so literally? -_-
@Temp Vlog If the cheese is good enough, I would sacrifice people to a piece of it. 😁👍
figuratively literally and figuratively
Just got back from Sardegna (born and raised there) and a family friend brought some over, freaking delicious and overpowering (in a good way) but then again I'm from here and we have some random foods so i'm used to them lol
Despite the fact that this cheese is made with maggots and stuff, it looks amazing and I want to try it.
I was waiting for the part when they would remove the maggots
Lobetec same
*WRONG*
they dont remove it the maggots become a fly.
Same here ;-;
but they didn't and SWALLOWED it. T_T
so it's basically maggot poop...
So ever heard of cake? Thats basically bacteria farts
@@rumahhafidzahbekasi1354 xD
How about yeast??
Fungus breath?
What about wine
I never knew that maggot shit would be a valued delicacy until now
Well atleast these things aint alive or could kill ya
It's a good day to be lactose intolerant
Me: Hey… you got the stuff?
Dealer: Oh yeah… I got the good shit
*plops out wheel of maggot cheese*
France: We have mold in our cheese
Italy: Oh how cute
milwaukeerican5
Sardinia*, if a region of Italy makes it it doesn’t mean the whole country does.
** Sophia ** It was supposed to be a joke though
Mould*
England, italy, germany and Switzerland also make mouldy cheese....
Paige Connelly
We have a cheese called gongorzola ( Italy )
Boss: "We need a new type of cheese. Anybody got any ideas?"
Employee: "I have an idea. What if-"
lol
After that employee got thrown out a window
@@gabi_2398 yeah but then every employee votes for it and then you know....
it is a cheese made out of worm poop
@@jakartagamer6188 basically
My grandmother loved this cheese. One day I will try it.
lmao even lady in the back is shaking her head :D
I wouldn't be as worried at the fact that there's maggots in the cheese, I'd be worried that the cheese itself is not cheese, rather it's maggot feces.
Dude stop highlight things you shouldnt cuz its gross
@@Aldo-tz2vm but its tasty
@@josephnacario81 yeah i know,but he remind me that im eating shit and it make me halucinate eating human shit
@@Aldo-tz2vm oh god have you done that
It is basically
Me: can we get fast food
Mom: No, theres food at home
Food at home:
Lol underrated comment
Lol
i'd rather have some maggot cheese than the possibility of a superbug resilient to all of those antibiotics used in fast food meat
@@elysium8131 No.
My moms food is better than fast food
So, if I left a slice of cheese outside for the flies will it taste like this? Can't wait.
Very nutritious, would love to try it.
Everyone gangsta til the cheese starts wriggling around
Hahahahha
@Thatslurkid 69 ?
Trashy joke*
Of course
Bro I ate some Ramen noodles once (raw and opened) and felt something moving and before I even grabbed them, I was like "this is fine, it's only opened by a little" but no it wasn't fine🤣 I yeeted those Ramens the moment I flashed a light from my phone to see inside. (yes it was maggots and yes I probably did eat some from the Ramen before realizing).
Cheezits: daNgEroUsLy cHeEsY
italy: are you challenging me?
*A NEW CHALLENGER HAS APPEARED!*
XD
Ima make a cheese with razor blades in it
You mean Cheetos my guy
contracting cheetos not cheesits
This brings a whole new meaning to dangerously cheesy
I have a humongous fear of maggots, just seeing them stack up on each other, eating of the matter in which they are in, just gives me chills down my spine, and I get paralysed by it, specially sometimes when I am doing the dishes I can see maggots inside of the few leftovers in the bowls or plates, and so I get discouraged to even start cleaning them.
Ok, it’s a little odd you would want to watch a video about a maggot infested food
More importantly, how often do you do the dishes!? And do ya scrape off the access food into the trash?!
France: I’d like to think we have the most disgusting cheese
Italy: So anyway...
@@leopicard7373 oh? I didn’t know that (I’m not being sarcastic)
Italian: So anyway i started putting maggots in the cheese..lol
Relax 😅, Just a joke, my country too have some dishes that to other people are disgusting but here to us its not.
Still better than cheddar 😄
Italian cheese fly: so anyway I start blasting
I was waiting for the part when they take the maggots out an somehow sterilize the cheese....
Can't do that, because that would be sane
no protein if you leave the spicy maggots
Me too sis...me too
Lmao I was waiting for the part where they put the cheese inside a pressure chamber....
I ate it and it smelt like Vagina.
Ppl will still somehow claim Fish and Chips is worse cuisine than Maggot Cheese
“Hey why don’t we make a cheese without bugs?”
“You’re fired.”
That cheese definitely ain't gonna _fly_ for me...
No pun intended
fuuhh ...
Fuk
Stop get some help
🥁🥁🛎
When I visit italy
Italians : Let's eat this cheese together
Me : *Sweating*
HAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAH
That's a funny joke but remember that not all cheese are like that one in Italy.
@@Francescomonti60 I'm an Italian from Italy and I can confirm that all cheese in Italy is exactly like this.
P.S. Ciao!
@@ananousous ah Si?
Già, anche il parmigiano, il pecorino, l'auricchio, il provolone, la mozzarella e la provola che sono comunque considerati formaggi sono come questo?
Non mi sembra proprio.
You're probably not even Italian
@@Francescomonti60 Nice name.
Who tf thought
“wait I have an idea let’s have flies lay eggs on our cheese then we eat it sounds very good!”
Everybody gangsta until you put the wrong kind of maggot/fly on your cheese 😂🤣
Maggot: "yeah I'm gonna make sure this turd is extra spicey, just for you."
SJSHSJSKDJDHSH YES
I’M DYING
The spice, I can sense it...
dawg
Mmmm, spicy shit...
the texture of the actual cheese seems heavenly, but the maggots? i think i’ll pass
U mean the texture of their poop is heavenly lol
Your sapose to eat the maggots its tradition
Honey is bee puke
Jeremy Rosa tradition is an idiot thing
@@yseson_ you know what? i didnt think id ever have to say this but you know fucking what? i prefer bee puke to maggot shit. that is my stance on the subject.
Tried this back in Southern Italy. I swear it's still the best cheese i've ever had
*Fly poops on cheese*
*Italians eat it*
Fly: 0_O..
Cheese: becomes the embodiment of rot and pestilence
Italy: Damn, that's hot. Gimme a cracker.
2:13 a slice of melon!
😂😂
@@teamborger9417 yeah just put fly shit on a melon
it's only eaten (or was idk) in sardinia, I'm not from sardinia and it's the first time I've heard if it
Forza Italia 🇮🇹
Italian guy: "Can i order some cheese, extra maggoty?"
😂😂😂
Guy selling: I got you
Italians don't eat it
Sure...why not
I didn't understand this and I'm italian...
I think not many people are actually realizing how gross this is, because this is just poop from larvae
I got a cheese ad right before the video played. What a coincidence
Why would you look at some cheese with live maggots crawling in it and think “you know what that looks nice”.
Hunger
Thats how most food were discovered. Need and hunger
Guess you haven't heard of "Hakarl" yet. :)
Catalin Bogatoiu nope
Endrik Oliveira I guess but most foods don’t have maggots in them
“It’s just to die for”
Wow what a coincidence!
Mandy this Needs more likes now
It’s actually an italian idiom. He says: “è la morte sua”, which means in general to be the best way of doing something. In this case he says that eating casu marzu with ham and a slice of melon it’s the best way of eating it
Its irony because he doesnt know he is going to really die. Not a coincidence
Nice you just hit 900 likes:D
was ur 1000th like
I bet this cheese is lot cleaner than most food people eat on a regular basis
The guy who first made these cheese I bet he was like “I think I f*^ked up.. I have no food so what’s the worst can happen?!”
Weird flex, but ok.
hOw DAt a fLEx, hUh?
Xero Xyn lol what
that's not how the meme works
Goldiful well I mean ur right(dead and shit meme btw) because when people use it like this that’s why people hate it.
every top comment is a dead meme, huh
"It's just for me" says the guy stacking three or four dozen wheels of maggot cheese in a pantry. "Just for special occasions" he says, surrounded by 400 pounds of cheese
...we have a lot of special occasions
..
Why do I hear sirens? It's for special occasions only sirs I swear!!
I love how deranged you made him sound lmao
For sure they sell it under the table. They will get caught.
Most of it would be normal cheese
"cheese"
This is similar to what 18th century Stilton was like, Daniel Defoe wrote in 1724 about when he visited Stilton, the cheese was served with a big spoon to eat the mites and maggots with as well as the cheese.
1:45
Then the guy's stomach starts pulsating.
Lmao you psychopath
Me: *Miss Writing a joke*
The reply:
You failed on that comment😂
You mean Left The Chat? Or Quit The Chat?
Its *has left* not *quit*
And i make it 500
*And sickness has spammed the chat*
Feed this to your ex
Justin Eats sure
Grilled maggot cheese sandwhich yum
Or your enemy
With the maggots in it
When they smile it gives "shit eating grin" a new meaning.
ROFL!!
No amount of flavor makes up for how fuckin crazy that is, how did the first person to make it even convince others to try
I wonder who that person was that thought: oh maggots! Let's eat this cheese anyways...
probably starving italian peasants that didn't want to see months worth of work go to waste
KEKsune exactly..
Someone with very very little resources and/or options.
Oh hey you're the one that asked Rens to do Ayahuasca like every episode!
You mean back in middle ages? Almost everyone.
0:52 "It's the maggots that give the cheese it's distinctive texture and flavor." You mean nastiness?
@@kylieburg942 and how do I avoid eating the maggots
How would you know have you tasted it? Lol.
lil wee wee you look at what you’re eating and see if anything’s moving
I'd eat the cheese and hang out with the family. They both seem cool!
Do they flick off the maggots or do they eat the maggots too?
Casu Marzu = Larve poop
Was searching for this comment!
Right,bro:))
He loves some larva poop
DELICIOUS
Bruh bird nest is basically bird's spit and honey is basically bees vomit
It just makes me wonder who the first person was that left his cheese out for a few months and then decided to eat it, despite it being covered in maggots. 🤮
Maybe they were on the brink of starving? Or it was a dare? Idk, I don't want to think too much about it
That's what I was just wondering lmfao, someone has to be the first to discover it
Most unconventional food is probably made from desperation for survival
@@sirernest546 then dont think
@HanzoTheTurtle That... explains a lot more than you think it does...
wow! this video has so much likes and no dislikes! i better try this cheese out.
This cheese: exists
Swedish surströmming: hold my beer
ah i see, fly larva poop
Cheetos: Dangerously Cheesy
Simone: I’ll do you one better
Lol first reply
i love it
nice one maggots love cheese too
ua-cam.com/video/EnhvPClW7zs/v-deo.html and people love this
ill do you one better, who is gamora
virus
Now I am wearing of eating anything Italian. Literally eating maggots.
I would genuinely eat this. It looks good, kinda like spreadable cream cheese with an insect flavor mixed in
*Shrek Has Joined The Chat*
I just left
@SlayZ I do i just meant to say that on a different comment
i just wanna know
how did the first person discover it?
Tyroney Baloney Sardinia Island is a land of sheperds...
Sheperds are very peculiar and stubborn people.
The first shepard who found his cheese infested by larvae 2000 or 3000 years ago, first got despairing, and crying...
Then he said to the flies:
"You ate my cheese, and I'll eat your kids!"
And he did for real what he promised... 😨😀😎😘
Someone ate some cheese and saw maggots inside and said "I'll make this a type of cheese" then died
Ugh, I’m a poor farmer who can’t get a break and my cheese has maggots in it.
I’ve hit rock bottom
THAT SOUNDS TERRIFYING JUST THINKING OF HOW ITS BEING DISCOVERED
Don't ask
I believe this is banned in several countries. My friend tried it and liked the taste but from the info that i researched well to say I'm never going anywhere near that cheese...
I immediately gotten a Sargento cheese commercial before the video start
I bet the first people were like:
Boy: *Mama, we have maggotso in our cheeseo*
Mom: *Let'sa eat it!*
Eat everything that doesn't eat you first
@@popoya2297 ok... would you like uhhhhhhh poisonous jellyfish?
Bruhblast AKA gameboy yeah as long as it doesn’t eat me first
It’sa me Mario
It'sa me Mario
Gordon Ramsay has left the chat
I wonder if he would rather eat pineapple pizza than this🤷🏻♀️
Gordon Ramsay ate this kind of cheese once.
@@stravinskyfan
Was he grossed out?
@@junkyyard2273 he spit it out
*Gordon ramasy has joined the chat*
I was distracted and intrigued by the 11/8 clarinet riff at the intro.
for some reason seeing the cheese made me lightheaded. not sure why
New York: Our cheese is made of human milk
France: We have mold on our cheese
Italy: Amateurs, AMATEURS!
Hold up! That’s a fact about New York?!
when tf did my state make human milk cheese
@@lesscringeymapperdude its a joke
@Who honestly asked you? Tit milk is always healthy dude lol
@@EvilPhoenix007after the age of 2 breast milk is no longer needed and is not healthy.
.."special flies called cheese flies"
yeah right..
Ye there is also the cheese fly foundation where they produce cheese maggots that are then sent into cheese
Lmao this comment really got me
@magnum chocolattee they’re paid good wages by this guy 🤪
@magnum chocolattee Lol!
A house fly produces lower quality shit💩, the poop isn't creamy enough and too dark.
I like it. It’s like a family tradition only for them.
"A special fly" 😂😂😂