"string cheese" news and stories

Meet the newest dynamic duo in snack food: Cheese Jerky.

A creation that hails from the cheese-centric state of Wisconsin, Cheese Jerky is created by shredding premium beef jerky then adding it to Wisconsin farmstead mozzarella string cheese.

"People are surprised by the idea which surprises me because meat and cheese always go together," Ross Segel, Snack Patrol's CEO and Chief Snack Technician, told Slashfood. Segel created Cheese Jerky in 2007.

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