From SwissInfo:
A quirky experiment that exposed Swiss cheese to different kinds of music found that hip-hop made it taste the best.
Special sound boxes were made to transmit music
to a wooden plate on which the cheese rested.
Eight wheels of "Muttenglück" Emmental cheese from World Cheese Championship winner Antony Wyss were subjected separately to different musical stimulus - Mozart, A Tribe Called Quest, Yello, Led Zeppelin, techno and three sinusoidal sounds - round-the-clock for eight months. The experiment was part of a collaboration between students of the University of Arts Bern and veterinarian Beat Wampfler who came up with the idea. The project was baptised “Cheese in Surround Sound – a culinary art experiment”.
A blind tasting test eight months later found that the wheel exposed to hip-hop had the most unique taste profile....MORE
