In this Swiss town, residents spent lifetime aging a wheel of cheese for their own funeral

Bourbons and wine hoarders, you have nothing on these people. Well, maybe the wine people can make a run at this level of hoarding.

"Imagine setting aside a wheel of cheese at your wedding. What would it look like if it were served at your funeral?

"If you were lucky, it would look like one of the wheels in Jean-Jacques Zufferey’s basement in Grimentz, Switzerland: shriveled and brown, pockmarked from decades of mite and mouse nibbles, and hard as a rock. You’d need an axe to slice it open and strong booze to wash it down. This is the rare cheese you?don’t?want to cut into when it’s aged to perfection. A fossilized funeral cheese means you lived a long life.

"Zufferey’s home, high in the Swiss mountains of Val d’Anniviers, is one of the last places you’ll find evidence of this peculiar practice—of keeping a wheel of cheese to be eaten at your funeral."

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