They blew through a mountain to build a cave just for cheese


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Reinhard Brunner, cheese master for the Austrian cheese company Plangger, stands in a cave that the company had specially created to ripen its wares. Photos: dpa

Most passers-by in the small Alpine town of Niederndorf in Austria probably thought the piles of earth and heavy machinery were something to do with the construction of a new traffic tunnel through a mountain.

In reality, the machinery on the German-Austrian border was being used to build a gigantic cave for something that often gives off fumes, but definitely doesn’t have wheels: cheese.

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