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Cheesy and Fondue celebrate National Cheese Day. We talk about contests and records from the last year. We discuss Cheesesteak, Parmigiana Reggiano, the thinnest sandwich, the largest guacamole and a giant Tiramisu. And of course, we tell a very cheesy joke!

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Show Notes

https://kids.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2024/12/check-out-our-cheesiest-records-from-the-largest-to-the-smelliest-774213

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8pxzn46lqo

https://abc30.com/amp/post/longest-line-cheesesteaks-new-world-record-makes-history-philadelphia-airport/18769425/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czx2ynq1lygo

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/396491-largest-display-of-cheese-varieties#:~:text=Pinterest-,LinkedIn,cheese%20culture%20in%20the%20region.

https://www.breakingtravelnews.com/news/article/the-worlds-largest-display-of-cheese-varieties-guinness-world-record-attemp/

WkowWorld cheese contest brings 20,000-pound dairy donation to Wisconsin food bank

MadisonA cheese from the Netherlands is named best in the world

Last year

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2025/11/six-pack-chef-wallace-wong-slices-worlds-thinnest-sandwich-but-says-its-still-tasty?f

https://perishablenews.com/deli/__trashed-7/

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/commercial/2026/5/holy-guacamole-mexican-city-makes-nearly-15000-pounds-of-dip-during-avocado-festival

https://www.instagram.com/p/DX05icDjmL9/?igsh=c2c1bnF6ZGN2dWFh

Episode Transcript

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Just Cheesy the podcastpresented by Just Cheesy Productions.
Hi there. I'm your host,Fondue. This week we're celebrating
National Cheese Day. We'regonna talk about contests and records
from the last year. We learnabout cheesesteak, Parmigiano, Reggiano,

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the thinnest sandwich, thelargest guacamole and a giant piracus
holy cat. And we're gonna tella very cheesy joke.
I love cheese.
Stay tun for episode noContest on Just Cheesy the podcast.
On May 25, 2026 on the springbank holiday on Monday in England,
somewhere on a 200 yard hillnear Brockworth in Gloucestershire.

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Okay.
A wheel of double Gloucestercheese is being rolled off a cliff
edge with a 1 second headstart and a group of people throwing
themselves after it.
Oh no.
We've talked about thiscontest before. According to Wikipedia,
the Cooper's Hill cheeserolling in wake has been documented
since at least 1926.
Holy cow.

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And some even think it'sconsiderably older. Let me go ahead
and set the stage. This hillhas a gradient of around 50%.
50%.
That's nearly a 1 and 2 slope.
Holy cow.
The cheese weighs about 7 to 9pounds and it can reach speeds enough
to injure a spectator.
Oh no.
I mean, I know it sounds scaryto have a cheese hurling after you,

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but throwing your own body offthe cliff can probably get you hurt
a little bit worse.
Oh yeah.
So the cheese gets a headstart and the first person over the
line at the bottom of the hillwins the cheese. And according to
Wikipedia, nobody everactually catches the cheese.
They don't.
And the cheese always wins.
Oh yeah.
Last year, according to BBCNews, the event had seven races.

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Okay.
A 23 year old German YouTuberwon the men's race for the second
year in a row and he said herisked his life to do it and that
the hill was dry and dangerousand people got injured. Duh.
Duh.
He told reporters that he shuthis brain off and just went for it.
Luke Priest won the secondmen's race wearing a Superman costume.
Australian Byron Smith won thethird men's race. And in the women's

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race, according to BleacherReport, a first time competitor named
Ava Sender Logan won herdebut. This race is no joke. It is
so extreme that according toCBC in 2023, a Canadian competitor
named Delaney Irving was notunconscious during the race.
Unconscious?
Woke up in a medical tent andfound out she had won. When she looked

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and found the cheese in herlap, she told reporters. And I want
to Stress. This is a directquote. She was not entirely sure
what was going on, but whenshe found the block of cheese on
her lap, that is how she knewshe had won.
Oh, wow.
According to the Internet,there is no governing body, no official
organization and no oneactually in charge, really. When
the town of Brockworth triedto cancel it in 2010 for safety reasons,

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the people of Gloucestershiresimply just showed up and ran it
anyway. And you're thinking toyourself, well, it's probably more
extreme today. No, theyactually unearthed a video and there's
one online. We've got a linkin our show, notes from the actual
competition in the 1930s.
That's amazing.
Yes. Yes, it is.

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Yeah.
Smart's Gloucester Cheese, thesupplier of Cooper Hill's Cheese
Rolling, is not a sponsor, butif they were, their ad would go right
here

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onkids.guinnessworldrecords.com they
dedicated a whole entiresection to cheese. They encourage
us to find out more abouttheir record breaking dairy dishes.
From the largest to thesmelliest. They talk about the largest
cheese sculptures. They talkabout the largest cheese sculpture
of a mammal, the largestgrilled cheese, the most varieties

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of cheese on a pizza, and theactual smelliest cheese in the world.
Of course, it comes fromFrance. On June 14, 2025, according
to Food and Beverage magazineand retail insider, Parmigiano Reggiano
and Loblaw Co. Ltd. Broketennis world record by cracking open
1672 wheels of ParmigianoReggiano at the exact same time.

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And this was across 452Canadian grocery stores at exactly
noon Eastern time. And thiswasn't even their first time. The
first record was set in 2014when more than a thousand wheels
were cracked at once. But theywanted to break their own record.
Oh, yeah. According to retailInsider, Parmigiano Reggiano is one
of the world's oldest naturalcheeses made in the same way today

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as it was nine centuries ago.They only use milk, salt, rennet
and no additives. Each wheelreceives a mark of origin and after
12 months of aging, it istested for quality. The traditional
way of opening the wheel usesa special short blade knife called
a Scarpino. It's tapped aroundthe circumference of the wheel until
it cracks naturally along thegrain of the cheese. On March 24,

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2026, according to ABC 30 andthe Associated Press, Philadelphia
International Airport becamethe site of a Guinness world record.
This was for the longest lineof cheesesteak sandwiches. 1291 cheesesteaks
were lined up inside thedeparture hall between terminal B
and C to Mark NationalCheesesteak Day. The previous record

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was only 500 sandwiches.
Wow.
They more than doubled it. Inan airport on a Tuesday, volunteers
assembled the cheesesteaksalong tables set up in the walkway,
filling rolls from silverbuckets as they moved past storefronts.
Record was certified. Thesandwiches were handed out to travelers,
airport workers, and DSAagents. And it seems to me there

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were only a couple ofrequirements here. One, that you
do not ever ask for Swisscheese on a cheesesteak.
Nope.
And a Guinness rule thatrequires all food used in a record
attempt to be either eaten ordonated. In October of 2025, according
to Guinness World Records,Canadian chef Wallace Wong, known
as the Six pack Chef, set therecord for the world's thinnest sandwich

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sliced by hand at GuinnessWorld Records headquarters in London.
The sandwich measured 5.12millimeters thick. And for those
who can't convert to metric,that's around a quarter of an inch.
Holy cow.
The sandwich had to contain atleast two ingredients used proportionately,
and it had to be no thickerthan 10 millimeters. The chef used

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Japanese milk bread, known forits soft texture because. And this
is his actual reasoning, he'sa chef and it has to taste good.
He added tomatoes andcucumbers. Slicing the bread was
described as the hardest partof the process, requiring multiple
slow passes with a knife toachieve thin, uniform slices without
holes or tears. On that sameday, Chef Wong also filleted a 12

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pound salmon in 1 minute and17 seconds and broke multiple other
slicing records, includingzucchini and mushroom challenges.
And some of these, they say,were performed blindfolded. There
was a record this year thatwas not cheese, but we're going to
cover it anyway. According toGuinness World Records, In May of
2026 in Mexico, there was anew world record set for the largest

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serving of guacamole duringthe annual avocado festival. They
produced over £15,000 of the dip.
Yum.
In the spirit of going biggerin 2026, according to the Instagrammer,
Vicenzo's plate, the world'slongest tiramisu was made in London.
It was over 440 meters long.And again for the non metric crowd,

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this is 1443ft. They say herethe giant tiramisu stayed true to
the real Italian recipe.
It did.
Every single slice was sold,raising over $26,000 for humanitarian
projects around the world.Now, don't forget to mark your calendars.
June 4th is national cheeseDay. According according to calendar

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C dash A dash L dash E dash N-A-R-R.com
okay.
National Cheese Day wasestablished in 1914 and was first
celebrated in Monroe,Wisconsin, the home of Greene County
Cheese Day Festival. And thisfestival, it lasts for a whole weekend.
It includes traditional Swissand German music, a two hour parade,

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carnivals, and local events.And according to NationalToday.com,
the average American consumesabout 38 pounds of cheese every year.
Holy cow.
National Day calendar saysthat every nation in the world has
its very own variety of cheese.
Nice.
And you know what? We'vecovered a whole lot of them, and
we plan to keep covering more.

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I'm ready for a joke fondue.
Okay. Why didn't Parmesangloat when it won the world record?
Ooh, I don't know. Why?
Because it was too mature. Getit? Because it was aged. It was too
mature.
I get it. It was silly.
Oh, it was silly. And justlike all of our other jokes, it's
a little bit cheesy. Thanksfor listening to Just Cheesy the

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Podcast, Episode, No contest.From Coopers Hill to a Philadelphia
airport terminal, the worldkeeps finding new ways to celebrate
what it loves. Cheese.
Yes.
And we keep bringing it to youat Just Cheesy the Podcast Happy
National Cheese Day.
And make sure to stay cheesy, everybody.