GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Squeak, squeak! It’s National Cheese Curd Day.
According to the National Day Calendar, National Cheese Curd Day was started in 2015 by the Wisconsin-based fast-food chain Culver’s.
The people at wisconsincheese.com, fresh curds are best served at room temperature within 24 hours of their production.
Cheese curds also form the basis of the French-Canadian dish poutine, which is curds and French fries smothered in gravy. And one of this year’s new concession items at Lambeau Field is the Tailgater Pierogi, which puts a cheese curd twist on the classic Polish dumpling.
Curds are just one type of the 3.390 billion pounds of cheese produced in Wisconsin in 2020.
