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7 facts about cheese
1. In England, held annually at the National Championship Skating cheese - one of the strangest events in the world: about fifty participants headlong rush down the hill Cooper Hill on the outskirts of Gloucester, trying to catch up with the rolling head cheese. The one who catches it first, as a prize he gets the best cheese.
2. Once the cheese used in hostilities. During the sea battle between the navies of Argentina and Uruguay in 1841, he reported that the ship ended the stock kernels. The admiral was about to surrender, but suddenly remembered that in the hold are several heads of dried cheese from Holland. Their size corresponds to the size of the nuclei. The admiral gave the order to charge the gun and give them a volley. Argentines have decided that a new secret weapon, and, frightened, retreated.
3. Salvador Dali once said the following: "If the country does not at least fifty varieties of cheese and good wine, it means that the country reached the handle».
4. Unique cheese creation is presented rustic winegrower from the US state of Wisconsin Troy Lendver. Because of a huge piece of cheddar cheese weighing more than 900 kg master carved a copy of the picture of the famous artist John Trumbull, "The Declaration of Independence." To create a monument to cheese Lendveru needed tools sculptor and 907 kg of Cheddar cheese. The sculpture was created by order of producing cheese crackers.
5. Delicious cheese Casu Marzu (Casu Marzu) - it is cheese, teeming maggots. It is prepared from the pecorino cheese. Before the product is brought total decay cheese fly larvae, which are not removed when the dish is served at the table. The larvae are small - eight millimeter - worms. His stormy activity of the digestive worms accelerate the collapse of the fat contained in the cheese and make the product extremely soft while it emits a liquid, called lagrima (from the Sardinian word "tears»).
The piquancy of eating this cheese lies in the fact that the larvae quite quickly and do not like to disturb them. In fury, they jump up to a distance of 15 cm. Therefore it is necessary to protect eyes. But it is better to protect yourself in all its entirety. Because, getting into the stomach, the larvae do not die (not always the gastric juice kills them), and for some time settled in the intestine. During this time, the gourmet can cause serious complications, there was a sensation of nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea. If you eat this delicacy with the already dead maggots, there is a risk the death poisoned corpse poison. However, despite all this, the cheese is still made in Italy and is worth a lot of money.
6. Another cheese containing living beings, it is - Mimolette, also known as Adam. Mimolette is not such an exotic cheese as Cas Marzio, and is freely available almost worldwide. The most delicious in the orange solid cheese - porous slightly grayish brown. This crust - cheese mite feces (among which they run), tiny arachnids specially bred in this cheese, which can be seen only under a microscope.
7. in the Emilia-Romagna - one of the most prosperous regions of Italy, famous for its monuments and masterpieces of art and gastronomic delights - there are four banks that accept popular cheese as collateral. For example, the banking house «Credito Emiliano», by his own admission, has taken possession of its clients 400 thousand circles of parmesan. Estimated value of the 40-pound wheel of cheese is 300 euros.
via factroom.ru
