[HN Gopher] Cheese Stood Alone for 3,600 Years
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       Cheese Stood Alone for 3,600 Years
        
       Author : diodorus
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2024-09-25 23:19 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | echelon_musk wrote:
       | > Hi-ho, the derry-o! The cheese stands alone.
        
       | throwup238 wrote:
       | It's not as old as this cheese but there's bog butter:
       | https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2024/0911/1469409-ireland-bog-...
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       | It's common enough of an archaeological find that some people
       | have tasted thousand year old butter!
        
         | klyrs wrote:
         | Sometimes I think that people who wreck their lives after
         | winning the lottery are lesser beings than myself. And then, I
         | read about bog butter, and realize that I'd totally blow a
         | million dollars on a single piece of toast.
        
           | saagarjha wrote:
           | To eat, or...
        
       | mouse_ wrote:
       | sounds like the title of a thought provoking indie game
        
       | sfblah wrote:
       | I do think someone should taste it to validate whether it just
       | tastes "dusty" as before.
        
       | jp57 wrote:
       | The article really is about a specific cheese, not cheese in
       | general. Can someone put the "This" back at the beginning of the
       | title?
        
       | metadat wrote:
       | https://archive.today/qBaiH
        
       | rendall wrote:
       | > _The cheese was dug up with mummified human remains..._
       | 
       | That's quite an opening sentence.
        
       | rendall wrote:
       | https://archive.is/qBaiH
        
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