A team of divers armed with $5,000 worth of sonar equipment recently attempted to locate roughly one ton of cheddar cheese dropped into Montreal’s Saguenay River last October. After hours of searching the Baie des Ha! Ha! (honest), the divers still had no luck. Cheesemaker Pierre Boivin dropped the cheddar in the river after hearing a local fisherman describe a tasty morsel of dairy he’d pulled from the bottom of a lake several years prior. Intrigued by the idea that water pressure might affect the ripening of the cheese, Boivin attached buoys to his product and sent it overboard. Nearly a year later, the markers have since disappeared, and so has the cheese. Boivin has spent $15,000 so far, trying to locate his missing cheddar. "If we don't find the cheese, we'll redo the experiment next year," Boivin says.[Via The Montreal Gazette]
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8-26-2005 @ 8:05PM
Sir Not Appearing in this Blog said...
I can think of at least one way to make sure the next batch doesn't get lost: GPS.
I wonder what this would the increased pressure and the colder temperatures do to the cheese that would make this worth doing? I'm interested in hearing the results of this experiment. I'm even more interested in sampling the results of this experiment. ;) I loves me some cheddar.
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8-26-2005 @ 9:00PM
Brent said...
Wow, I hope they find that cheese. Sounds like a realy interesting experiment.
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8-27-2005 @ 10:53AM
Finished.Law.School said...
Someone should tell him that the local fisherman who told him the story was just joking around.
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