Internet Cheddar Is The Big Cheese

A Million Viewers Can’t Be Wrong

A large English cheddar cheese has become a star of the internet, attracting more than a million viewers to sit and stare at it as it slowly ripens. First placed in front of a webcam in late December, the Westcombe cheddar came to public attention in early February and has since attracted viewers from 119 countries. ``It has been a real challenge keeping the cheese up and running with all the interest it has generated," a spokesman for the company running the website, Cheddar Vision, said Wednesday. Watchers have tuned in from as far afield as Albania and New Zealand, although most are from the United States where a school has even sent in pictures of two crocodiles to guard the cheese.