cheese mite wonderfulness
Nov. 9th, 2008 11:29 pmThe 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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