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The Scouting movement’s famous motto of “be prepared” could soon become “be prepared to eat cheese” following a sponsorship deal with the makers of Edam.
Friesland Foods, the Dutch company behind the red-waxed cheese, is to support the UK Scout Association’s “chef’s badge”, which youngsters can earn by learning how to cook.

Signing up to a Facebook fan group for a brand of cheese doesn’t seem particularly tempting — unless of course there’s a lifetime’s supply of on offer.
Wyke Farms, a cheddar manufacturer in the English county of Somerset, has already pulled in more than 500 fans by offering one lucky winner all the cheddar they can [...]

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.

Pop star backstage demands have a reputation for the unusual, whether it’s vats of booze, bowls of M&Ms with all the brown ones removed, or dwarves and monkeys.
Now chart-topping singer Lady GaGa has joined their ranks with a strange request for cheese.

Goat’s cheese was on the menu as the leaders of the world’s most powerful countries gathered for a formal dinner in London this week to chew over ways to solve the financial crisis.
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver added the cheese as a vegetarian option in a meal prepared for leaders of the G-20 nations, including U.S. [...]

Pressure is growing on U.S. President Barack Obama from Americans at home and abroad to scrap a planned 300 percent duty hike on Roquefort cheese that many say is embarrassing for their country’s image.
The duty, raised by Obama’s predecessor George W. Bush as part of a raft of taxes in retaliation to a European Union [...]

A cheese-related book has been awarded a prize for the strangest title, beating off stiff competition from rival publications on knitting, baboons, and stomach gazing.
Bookseller magazine, which presents the annual Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year, says The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-miligram Containers of Fromage Frais, by Professor Philip M. Parker, [...]

Swiss people are eating more cheese than ever, but when it comes to Emmental — the country’s legedary fromage full of holes, they are simply not interested, according to a new report.
The Swiss Farmers’ Association and Swiss milk producers say that cheese consumption per person increased 430 grams in 2008 — bringing the amount consumed [...]

It’s not often cheese is credited with health-giving properties, but if Sakhan Dosova is to believed, it’s a key ingredient in helping her reach the ripe old age of 130.
Dosova, from Karaganda in northern Kazakhstan, has a recorded birthdate of March 27, 1879, which if true, puts her 16 years older than the next eldest [...]

An American woman claims to have found an image of beatified Roman Catholic nun Mother Teresa in a slice of cheese, claiming the discovery miraculously helped cure her sore throat.
Monica Sliva, of Turlock, California, says she saw the celebrated religious figure’s likeness in a slice of cheddar after falling ill and seeking solace in her [...]