And for the article that just keeps on giving …
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/22/us-norway-cheese-idUSBRE90L0LP20130122
Cheese fire causes traffic meltdown in Norway tunnel
OSLO | Tue Jan 22, 2013 10:12am EST
(Reuters) - A truckload of burning cheese has closed a road
tunnel in Arctic Norway for the last six days.
Some 27 metric tons of flaming brown cheese (brunost), a
Norwegian delicacy, blocked off a three-km (1.9 mile) tunnel near the northern
coastal town of Narvik when it caught fire last Thursday. The fire was finally
put out on Monday.
"This high concentration of fat and sugar is almost like petrol
if it gets hot enough," said Viggo Berg, a policeman.
Brown cheese is made from whey, contains up to 30 percent fat
and has a caramel taste.
"I didn't know that brown cheese burns so well," said Kjell
Bjoern Vinje at the Norwegian Public Roads Administration.
[ Note: this next is the line where my wife cracked up laughing. ]
He added that in his 15 years in the administration, this was
the first time cheese had caught fire on Norwegian roads.
Berg said that no one was injured in the fire, only one other
vehicle was in the area at the time and that the accident had luckily happened
close to one of the tunnel's exits.
The tunnel will closed for repairs for at least a week.
(Reporting by Victoria Klesty, editing by Paul Casciato)
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