12 facts you never know about cheese

I picked up some pretty fascinating facts that changed the way you think about cheese. Read on! 

1. The world’s most expensive cheese comes from a Swedish moose farm and the cheese sells for £300 a pound.


2. You can’t make cheese entirely from human milk since it won’t coagulate properly.


3. The largest cheese ever made was a Cheddar weighing 56,850 pounds, in 1989.


4. 97% of British people are ‘Lactose Persistent’ and are the most lactose tolerant population in the world.


5. The bacteria used for smear-ripened cheeses are closely related to the bacteria that generates sweaty feet odour.


6. Cheese as we know it today was (accidentally) discovered over 8,000 years ago when milk separated into curds and whey.


7. There are over 1,265,000 dairy cows in the US state of Wisconsin alone.


8. A northern Italian bank uses Parmesan as loan collateral.


9. Sardinia’s Cazu Marzu, which means ‘rotten cheese’, is safe to eat only if it contains live maggots.


10. Cheese consumption in the United Kingdom is at a measly 24.0 pounds per capita.


11. This cheese consumption isn’t even close to Greece who lead the way with a whopping 68.4 pounds per capita.


12. The expression “cheesy” used to mean first-rate, but sarcastic use of the word has caused it to mean the opposite.