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Aging cheddar becomes internet star
Topic Started: Apr 26 2007, 11:07 PM (125 Views)
musicasacra
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Aging Cheddar Becomes Internet Star
Reuters

LONDON (April 26) - A large English cheddar cheese has become a star of the Internet, attracting more than 1 million viewers to sit and stare at it as it slowly ripens.

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First placed in front of a webcam in late December, the Westcombe cheddar from West Country Farmhouse Cheesemakers leaped to public attention in early February and has since attracted viewers from 119 countries.

"The hits went over 1 million this morning. It has been a real challenge keeping the cheese up and running with all the interest it has generated," a spokesman for the company running the website, www.cheddarvision.tv, said Wednesday.

Watchers have tuned in from as far afield as Albania and New Zealand, although most are from the United States where a school has even sent in pictures of two crocodiles to guard the cheese.

"The whole idea was to show people how real food is made -- and it seems to be working," cheesemaker Tom Calver said. "It takes a year for the cheese to mature. This is not fast food. It is slow food."
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Watch it age fast at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVMt9ECdOjA
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Dewey
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It's kind of like watching Bill Moyers.
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Apr 27 2007, 05:04 AM
It's kind of like watching Bill Moyers.

Except sharper. :smokin:
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George K
Apr 27 2007, 08:45 AM
Dewey
Apr 27 2007, 05:04 AM
It's kind of like watching Bill Moyers.

Except sharper. :smokin:

Only a true Wisconsin cheesehead could come up with THAT joke - :lol:
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kenny
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A million views?
119 countries?

They should auction that wheel of cheddar on eBay. $$$$$$$$

Talk about a Wheel of Fortune!
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