Man Creates Monumental Cheese Carving

[Catty1]

Man Creates Monumental Cheese Carving
Mount_Rushmore_Cheese

Posted: Today at 5:24 a.m.

LITTLE CHUTE, Wis. — A cheese carver has accomplished a task that's a real "Muenster" - or make that a "monster" - in size. Troy Landwehr used his carving tools to turn a 700-pound block of Land O' Lakes cheddar into a replica of Mount Rushmore.

The cheese carver and winemaker was commissioned by Cheez-It snack crackers to make the monumental carving.

He's heading to New York City in coming days to appear on TV and promote the work on Times Square.

Then the carving hits the road on a publicity tour, while Landwehr heads home to Little Chute.

The carving eventually will end up in Oklahoma and be cut into cubes to become a snack itself.

Landwehr said that doesn't bother him.

"In the end, they'll love eating good Wisconsin cheddar down south," he said.

[Kalei]

Haha that's cute, and he is very artistic to be able to do that with cheese too

[phesina]

My God, Candace.. where did you find that? I think I need to forward that story to many people.

Pat

[Catty1]

Pat - here's the link on CBC news.

I had to Google 'cheese sculpture', and then had to open and post the pic separately to get it a good size!

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/070630/K063004AU.html

This is the link in Properties for the pic...see if it helps... http://wwwcache.wral.com/asset/news/...ff-512x330.jpg

[CathyBogart]

That's pretty nifty! I wonder how long it'll last?

[Catty1]

Give me some sliced rye bread and a knife! I'll show ya how long!

[mruffruff]

Looks like he ate some of the excess cheese he carved off. Can't blame him-- it looks mighty good to me!

[Husky_mom]

Give me some sliced rye bread and a knife! I'll show ya how long!

I´ll join the quest for finding the truth........LOL

Glad I´m not there, cause someone should be missing a nose or something there.......LOL

*drools* .......... cheeeeeeese...........

[phesina]

Thanks, Candace! I have several people in mind who "need to know" this.

Pat

Pat - here's the link on CBC news.

I had to Google 'cheese sculpture', and then had to open and post the pic separately to get it a good size!

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/070630/K063004AU.html

This is the link in Properties for the pic...see if it helps... http://wwwcache.wral.com/asset/news/...ff-512x330.jpg