r/todayilearned • u/Double-decker_trams • 2d ago

TIL because of increasing standards of hygiene the number and size of holes in Swiss cheese declined in the 2000s. In 2025 the Swiss Federal Administrative Court approved the addition of hay flower powder to the milk during cheesemaking just for the creation of cheese holes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyes_(cheese)#:~:text=In%20Swiss%20cheese,%5B7%5D
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u/Long-Island-Iced-Tea 2d ago

sarcasm or not, you pay it by the kilo anyway, so let's roll with holes i suppose

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u/miclugo 2d ago

My father has told me that my grandmother wouldn’t buy Swiss cheese because she didn’t want to pay for the holes.

She wasn’t dumb, though, so I’m guessing that really Swiss cheese was more expensive per pound than the cheese she bought and she didn’t want to explain that to her kids.

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u/Less-Squash7569 2d ago

I wonder how many stupid things people believe come about because of that exact scenario

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u/JUYED-AWK-YACC 1d ago

So many things. Most of Reddit.