Deep under Springfield, Missouri, lies a cheese cave of industrial proportions, a 2-million-square-foot refrigerated warehouse called Springfield Underground. Since 2008, Kraft Foods has rented 400,000 square feet of the repurposed limestone mine as a massive distribution center, from which to ship 680-pound, Velveeta-bright barrels of Oscar Meyer meats, Philadelphia cream cheese, Velveeta pasteurized processed cheeses, Jell-O, and Lunchables.
Unlike traditional cheese caves, which can impart the particular flavors of time and place-the unique combinations of bacteria, yeast, and mold that cheese makers call terroir-Wired magazine explains that in the case of Kraft's cave:
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