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WEYAUWEGA, Wis. (WLUK) — Wisconsin is known worldwide for its cheese, but the cheese looked to put the state in the world record books once again.
Weyauwega Star Dairy unofficially broke its own record for the world’s longest piece of string cheese at 3,832 feet.
Gerard Knaus’ 85-year-old father, Jim, set the original record in 1995 for the world’s longest piece of string cheese.
“We’re just adding onto his record,” said Gerard Knaus. “That’s all we’re doing today”
To do that, the cheesemakers needed a good slice of the city’s more than 1,700 residents.
“I’ve never seen this before and I want my piece of string cheese,” said Allen Robbert, who lives about 10 miles from Weyauwega, where the unofficial record was shattered.
Many have been here before. The Knauses beat their 1995 record in 2006 with a piece of string cheese about 2,000 feet long.
“When we first started dating, we came up here and held the cheese then. Got in the Guinness Book of World Records,” said Sheryl Harris of Weyauwega. “Now we’re doing it again.”
Standing 7 feet apart, on a shut-down Main Street, residents grabbed a piece of the potential record.
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