cheese mite wonderfulness

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The cheese mite memorial of Würchwitz contains samples of Milbenkäse that passersby can eat

I was reading about cheese mites: "Milbenkäse and aged Mimolette. Cheese that is infested with the mites can have a sweet, minty odor and will appear to be covered in a fine gray dust of the mites, their dander and excrement."

But the Milbenkäse article made me wonder if this was a leg-pull. The cheese mite monument? That's either made up, or totally great.

Well, an article from Die Welt (and not from April 1, I checked) confirms the cheese, and confirms the monument:

In the village center Pöschel already had five years ago, a 3.5-ton marble monument in honor of the Latin as "Tyrogliphus Casei" designated Animalcule built.

And everyone agrees that Mimolette's crust is mite-eaten.

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[eub.livejournal.com]

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7423847.stm
"Cheese Mites was the first scientific film made for public consumption," Dr Boon says. "These were early days for cinema. The audience was highly attuned to going after exciting new entertainments.

"They enjoyed seeing something rather revolting."

The film was unlikely to have pleased anybody in the dairy industry, but it did have a lasting effect of sales of cheap microscopes, which would often include packets of mites as a test sample.