Just what does it do to your insides?

Nearly five years ago, I posted about gjetost (brunost) and the deliciousness of this very unusual cheese.
Now, in the news, tragedy has struck as 27 tons of gjetost burned.
The Brattli Tunnel in northern Norway has been closed due to a truckload of burning brown goat cheese and the toxic gasses that emerge when you light the stuff on fire.
"Police officer Viggo Berg said the high concentration of fat and sugar in the cheese made it burn 'almost like petrol if it gets hot enough,'" reports the BBC, which adds that the "fire raged for five days and smoldering toxic gases were slowing the recovery operation, officials said."

It is a sad day for Norwegian cheese lovers. Not only has nearly 60,000 pounds of cheese been destroyed, but we have incontrovertible evidence that this stuff is BAD for you. Toxic gasses!?




h/t to Velvet Blogger, Jim.