Made in Galicia: the biggest cheese in the world

Made in Galicia: the biggest cheese in the world
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By m.p. - May 11, 2009 - 3:20 PM
5,000 people had a taste of the one-ton giant this weekend

Thousands of people visited a cheese festival held in the town of Arzúa, Galicia, this weekend for a taste of what’s reported by 20 minutos to be the biggest cheese in the world – a monster of a cheese made with 8,000 litres of milk and measuring two metres across. The one-ton giant was produced in a mould which was specially-made for the job, and a crane had to be called in to turn it over during the curing process.

It was divided up into 5,000 portions with the help of a 2-metre saw.

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