| ▲ | shevy-java 4 days ago |
| Because the damn swiss folks really want to sell more cheese,
without actually producing more cheese! So the proper way is to cut half the cheese out, say that holes
are NECESSARY and IMPORTANT - and then sell twice as much as
before. They are a genius people. |
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| ▲ | mark-r 4 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Isn't cheese usually sold by weight? So your theory, erm, has holes in it. |
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| ▲ | panick21 4 days ago | parent [-] | | The fancy Emmentaler sometimes has water in the holes. So that increases the weight. |
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| ▲ | rootusrootus 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Fun fact - in Switzerland the holes are not permitted. Bonus fact - Switzerland imports more cheese than it exports. |
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| ▲ | Kichererbsen 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Fun fact, but also fake news. Emmethaler cheese has holes even in Switzerland. It's the only part of that cheese that tastes any good, so why remove them? | |
| ▲ | ricudis 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | And how would they know if my cheese has holes, given that there is a non-zero probability that a random cut over a piece of cheese goes through no holes at all? They would have to make so many cuts that the cheese becomes grated. And grated cheese most definitely doesn't have holes! | | |
| ▲ | brainwad 4 days ago | parent [-] | | They know the density of holeless cheese, and can compare to the sample. If it's underweight it probably has holes? | | |
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| ▲ | tribaal 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | This is bullshit, Emmentaler has holes here as well. Source: am Swiss, live in Emmental | | |
| ▲ | rootusrootus 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Okay, okay, Wikipedia was wrong about the regulation on the holes, then ;-). Go edit it! |
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| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | > in Switzerland the holes are not permitted For Emmentaler? | | |
| ▲ | HelloNurse 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Someone might be confusing the large holes of Emmentaler (and imitations thereof) with the smaller and sparser ones of Gruyère. |
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| ▲ | mattmaroon 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Like a White Castle burger! |
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| ▲ | IAmBroom 3 days ago | parent [-] | | No, White Castle profits are linearly related to BAC (blood alcohol content). |
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