Posted on 09/26/2024 9:36:10 AM PDT by BenLurkin
It’s aged — 3,600 years.
Scientists have successfully pulled a DNA strand from what they believe to be the world’s oldest cheese, yanking it from Bronze Age mummies in a Chinese graveyard, circa 2,000 B.C.
The dairy delight is kefir cheese — a modern-day cream cheese health substitute — and was found strangely smeared or “scattered” around the heads and necks of preserved corpses, dating between 3,300 to 3,600 years ago, in northwest China’s Tarim Basin, according to research published in the journal Cell.

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I didn’t think Chinese ate cheese.
Was it a moose mummy?................
Moose bytes can be nasti
Put that cheese on a croque monsieur sandwich.
It was next to an ancient sleeve of Ritz crackers.
Goes well with bugs.
OMG, raised on that ambrosia, along with Cheese Whiz.
And bologna.
We’ll lead you up to the archeological site where you can meet the manager of the excavation. He’s from Kraft Foods.
No-Kefir is made from real milk-like yogurt-velveeta is made from at least 50% processed veggie/seed oils-it is not “cheese” t all-just a processed imitation...
The bologna is real meat-the pretend cheese is processed food...
Must be why I’ve lived such a long life.
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