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[108] _Doleo_, 'I grieve at,' is construed with _de_, as _de casu tuo_, with the ablative alone, _casu tuo_, and also as a transitive verb with the accusative, _doleo casum tuum_.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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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
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By the time it is ready for consumption, a typical casu marzu contains thousands of larvae.
You Eat That? Rachel Herz 2012
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I hate maggots, to the extent that I almost dry-heaved watching a VIDEO about casu marzu.
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My favorite fermented challenge, because I'm a cheese lover but am mortally repulsed by worms, is casu marzu.
You Eat That? Rachel Herz 2012
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Locals consider it unsafe to eat casu marzu once the larvae have died, so it is served while the translucent white worms, about one-third of an inch long, are still squiggling.
You Eat That? Rachel Herz 2012
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Nothing against brie, but I really wish it were easier to find casu marzu.
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So then, in the Church, if this "event" is not so much an important fact, but a rupture, an absolute novelty, the emergence "in casu" of a new Church, a Copernican revolution, in short the transition to a different form of Catholicism – losing its unmistakable characteristics – this perspective cannot and must not be accepted, precisely because of the uniqueness of Catholic identity.
A Timely Re-Read on a Critique of a Particular, and Popular, Hermeneutic of Vatican II 2009
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So name your poison: fugu, ackee, pokeweed, casu marzu, Amanita mushrooms, naga jolokia, or Los Angeles danger dogs.
Boing Boing 2009
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Who, uninitiated to the actual foodstuff, isn't at least a little curious about tasting some soft and stinky hákarl or a wormy morsel of casu marzu?
You Eat That? Rachel Herz 2012
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