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This German cheese is ripened by live mites, which you then eat

Ellsworth Toohey
Jul 08, 2026
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mite cheese — Benutzer:Dundak at de.wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0 (via Wikipedia)

According to Milbenkäse (”mite cheese”), the German specialty is made by flavoring balls of quark with caraway and salt, drying them, and leaving them “in a wooden box containing rye flour and cheese mites for about three months.”

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