Read this first: I do NOT want the actual answer to this question! I could easily research the origin of swiss cheese holes, but I really don't care about that. What I want are creative answers that could, in some alternate universe, explain how a certain kind of cheese might have holes in it. Best answer goes to the person who gets the most creative!
2007-05-28 16:44:14 · 7 answers · asked by lafemelle 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Because that's where all the other baby swiss cheeses come from. They pop out of the holes.
2007-05-28 16:49:41 · answer #1 · answered by AVATARD 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The truth:
A search on "swiss cheese holes" revealed that gassy bacteria are behind all that holey cheese. In order to make cheese, you need the help of bacteria. Starter cultures containing bacteria are added to milk, where they create lactic acid, essential for producing cheese. Various types of bacteria can be used to make cheese, and some cheeses require several different bacteria to give them a particular flavor.
Propionibacter shermani is one of the three types of bacteria used to make Swiss cheese, and it's responsible for the cheese's distinctive holes. Once P. shermani is added to the cheese mixture and warmed, bubbles of carbon dioxide form. These bubbles become holes in the final product. Cheesemakers can control the size of the holes by changing the acidity, temperature, and curing time of the mixture. Incidentally, those holes are technically called "eyes," and the proper Swiss name for the cheese is Emmentaler (also spelled Emmental or Emmenthaler).
The real truth:
This "cheese" was discovered in a crashed UFO and whenever scientists have tried to dissect and test the cheese they have disappeared and are never seen again. Only a strange smell remains where they once stood. I implore you to delete this question before they find you and take you back to their motherland!
2007-05-28 16:50:20 · answer #2 · answered by MissKittyInTheCity 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the mice really liked swiss cheese so they kept on eating holes through it until the swiss cheese evolved so that there were permanent holes in them...because both the mice and the cheese knew that if the mice kept eating the swiss cheese, there would be no more left for the mice to eat.
2007-05-28 16:46:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
swiss cheese is the only cheese you can take a bite of and miss.
2007-05-28 16:53:12 · answer #4 · answered by joe 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those it's cuz the Swiss punched holes in them with extra large hole punchers so they could hide stuff in them when they exported them to other countries...
2007-05-28 16:50:11 · answer #5 · answered by ♀VANshee 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because it was placed in a microwave, the parts missing form a part of the Moon now :P
Everyone knows that microwaves can serve as matter-teleporter
2007-05-28 16:49:31 · answer #6 · answered by Another Face Of Me 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
it is mice tunnels. they just slice the cheese off an never fill in the tunnels the mice dig.
2007-05-28 16:47:16 · answer #7 · answered by RANDELL 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋