Scientists FINALLY Discover Why There Are Holes In Swiss Cheese

Well here is one piece of absolutely useless information (unless it comes up at a pub quiz)!

A Swiss funded a study attempting to figure out  just why Swiss cheese has holes in it has finally found an answer.

The holes are caused by small pieces of hay used in the milk that’s used to make the Swiss cheese. That’s it. We hope you weren’t looking for something more elaborate because you’re going to be disappointed.

It had traditionally been accepted that the holes were due to bacteria in the milk.

What’s more, the famed holes in the cheese appear to be decreasing in size, too, over the last decade as older methods of making the milk give way to more modern approaches.

Great.

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