so the mice in cartoons have places to hide from the cats when they are eating it :bigsmile:

seriously though it is as Titch said due to the bacteria which exude carbon dioxide gas that makes the holes.

It is only certain kinds of cheese which have the holes; most types are from Switzerland but they occur in other parts of Europe.

Perhaps reason you may see these kinds of cheese more often in cartoons is that in the early days of cinema, the sort of people who had the skills to make both cartoons and live action films were very often immigrants from Switzerland and Germany – and when animators were asked to draw a cartoon scene where there is a block of cheese featured they would just draw this type of cheese without thinking of it..

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the holes are for the spies to hide in with their bugging devices..:crazy_fre:crazy_fre

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM………… jarlsberg one of my favourites, also could anyone explain this to me. When eating jarlsberg i find if you push it really hard up against the roof of your mouth it produces a tingling sensation on your tounge. Think i remember someone saying this about pills on an earlier thread but it also happens with jarlsberg TRUST ME.

Bin eating alot of camembare at the moment but this has had fook all effect on my dreams unfortunately:crazy_fre

less importantly

why are holes surrounded by cheese?

why to allow thm some modesty of course; all holes require modesty coverings pretty much:crazy_fre
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