Puzzled U.S. border police arrested a Mexican smuggler with 88 pounds (40-kg) of cheese hidden in a special compartment in his truck, police said on Friday.

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No word on whether he was the same guy they busted in 2003 with 800 pounds of bologna. Perhaps he was just on a pilgrimage to the Indiana State Fair to see Sarah Kauffman’s 2300 pound cheese scultpure?

“The sculpture is made of ten varieties of Indiana cheese and depicts a little girl.” Sadly, I couldn’t find a picture on the Indiana State Fair website, although I did notice that they have scheduled performances by Pat Boone, Kid Rock and Kanye West, but, sadly, not all at the same time.

In other cheese news…

I noticed the following ad in the Washington Post Health Section today:

VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED FOR STUDY ON CHEESE EATING
Volunteers will be paid $100 for completing the study…Study will require eating 2 meals consisting only of cheese…

The contact email was for someone at The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, although I couldn’t find any references to it on their site. (I didn’t bother to include the whole ad since I’m not in the business of running ads here. Plus, well, laziness).