Emmental cheese.
Not many of you have heard of this, but you’ve definitely had some variety of it before. It was first produced in Emmental, Switzerland. While this does not immediately make it “Swiss” cheese for all of you, *pompous sniff* unrefined Americans, it is in fact, what is widely known as Swiss cheese. Yellow, medium-hard cheese, with lots of holes.
But here’s the thing – cheese isn’t supposed to have holes. The reason for “hole-y” Swiss cheese is a negligence of the Emmental cheesemaking process. Holes occur when one of the three varieties of bacteria used in the cheese emits carbon dioxide, enough CO2 to form a bubble. Traditionally the cheese is meant to be pressed to remove the holes, as they’re considered poor work. BUT NOT ANY MORE.
And that brings us to our word of the day: skeuomorph. A thing that serves no functional purpose but is comfortable or old, and therefore paramount in the archetypal form of said object. “Analog” clocks on a computer, or hubcaps. OR HOLES IN MY CHEESE. Fuck you society, less cheese per sandwich was a TERRIBLE IDEA WHO DID THIS I NEED TO KILL THEM WITH A TIME MACHINE
So yes. Emmental cheese is amaaaaazing~
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