A cheesemaker in Victoria has been fined $9000 for creating an overpowering stinky smell. As my favourite riddle goes, how stinky must a cheese stink be to be considered offensively stinky?
Apparently quite a bit, because Yarra Valley Dairy in Yering, Victoria was fined just over $9000 by the state’s Environment Protection Authority (EPA) for its nasty smell. Oof, I wonder if it was a nice ripe blue?
According to the EPA, the “strong odour” from the cheesemaker was affecting the surrounding properties. That’s the politest euphemism for “cheese stink” I’ve ever heard.
I can only imagine a pungent breeze ebbing and flowing through the crisp air of the Yarra Valley, reminiscent of the K-Mart running shoes your dad bought six years ago but refuses to bin because there’s “still some life left in them”.
According to EPA regional manager Jeremy Settle