Posted October 15, 2017
Buttery - crunchy fried outside. Ooey - gooey - chewy - melty - oh, so savory inside. Mmmm...fried cheese curds!
It's Cheese Curd Day!
Cheese curds are solid pieces of curdled milk eaten alone or in a snack. Cottage cheese is one sort of cheese curd. 
People in Quebec, Canada, make poutine by putting cheese curds and gravy on French fries.
People in the Northeastern U.S. often call cheese curds "squeaky cheese," and they eat them plain as finger food or on skewers with smoked sausage or ham as appetizers. All sorts of flavorings can be added to the curds - everything from jalapeño to garlic, from Cajun seasonings to dill.
In the Midwest, cheese curds are often fried.
According to Culver's, Cheese Curd Day celebrates fried cheese curds made with unaged yellow or white Wisconsin cheddar cheese. The company sold 17.7 million orders of Culver's Wisconsin Cheese Curds in 2015 alone. If all those cheese curds were laid end to end, Culver's claims, they would stretch from the Earth to the Moon three times!
By the way, having a special day dedicated to cheese curds isn't all that Wisconsinites do - they also have a late-summer Cheese Curd Fest! Also on this date:
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