The maggots eat the cheese, they digest it, they poo it out and it becomes creamy.” He admits though that it is something of a “niche product”. “It’s a tradition that is in decline.

Maggots”. If we had a penny for every time someone has told us that we’d have, erm, no pence. It’s not the most appealing of thoughts, but this Sardinian cheese has an almost mythical ...