Buy the world's 'oldest' cheese ... in China

Tue, 01/31/2012 - 05:00 — Anonymous by Andrea Fenn After "most skyscrapers
in the world" and "world's biggest bottle of cooking oil (nearly five meters
tall)," China has another superlative to add to her list. And it is the least
likely one of all. What has been claimed to be the world's oldest piece of
edible cheese is currently located in China. Get this: the owners want to
sell this extra old cheese to Chinese people. For the Chinese, cheese itself
does not have a meaning, it's basically an ingredient of other foods like
pizza The phenomenal "relic" is a 20-kilo cut of Italian alpine cheese called
Bitto, produced in 1997 and valued at HK$2,500 (about RMB 2,040) per
kilo.read more