September 22, 2007


Pasteurized Process Swiss-Flavored Travel Log: Mail-Order Cheese!

And just who do you think sponsors Monroe, Wisconsin’s Green County Cheese Days festival?

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That’s right! The Monroe-based Swiss Colony company, the town’s biggest employer, they of the Christmas catalog featuring gift boxes filled with spreadable cheese and cheese logs and petits fours and — BEEF LOGS!


But did you know that Arcadia Publishing devoted one of its pictorial histories to Swiss Colony?

Or that Chris Mouse, Swiss Colony’s Santa-clad rodent mascot, began his career sporting lederhosen?

Is there anything more you’d like to know about Swiss Colony?

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