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Dominos fires cheese-snorting staff

The Dominos Pizza chain says two people are facing criminal charges afer kitchen workers filmed unsavoury acts involving cheese and posted it on the Internet.
Kristy Lynn Hammonds and Michael Anthony Setzer have been charged with distributing prohibited foods after footage of what appears to be Setzer shoving cheese up his nostril appeared on YouTube.

Backstreet cheese deals blamed for illnesses

Health officials in the United States are hunting for an illegal cheese manufacturer whose backstreet dairy sales are believed to be the source of a string of illnesses.
Unscrupulous cheese vendors have been offloading their tainted produce in parking lots outside stores and churches in the Winnebago area of Illinois, west of Chicago, local authorities say. [...]

Man stabs fiancee over misplaced cheese

A man has been arrested for slicing his fiancee’s finger because she didn’t place the cheese on his meatball sandwich correctly, according to reports.
Police in the U.S. city of Philadelphia said Lyndel Toppin’s girlfriend needed 23 stitches after he attacked the 44-year-old woman with a knife, according to the Philadelphia Daily News.

Parmesan pilferers spark unusual security

Cheese thieves with a taste for high-class produce have prompted a British superstore to take the unusual step of placing wedges of parmesan in tamper proof security boxes.
Up to 70 percent of expensive cheeses were vanishing from the shelves of Sainsbury’s superstore in Bedford before the lockdown, the Bedfordshire on Sunday newspaper reported.
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