Smoked Cheese Wheel
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| Smoked Cheese Wheel | |
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| Released: | June 19, 2012 Patch |
| Availability: | Drop (expired) |
| Tradable: | Yes |
| Giftable: | Yes |
| Craftable: | No |
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Smoked Cheese Wheel |
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| “ | Ah, cheese!
Click to listen
— The Scout at his incinerated delicacy
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The Smoked Cheese Wheel is a crafting ingredient. It was originally added in the June 19, 2012 Patch, as the Cheese Wheel. It appeared in the backpack as a cheese wheel coated in red wax with a label atop reading "Captain Dan's 'I Can't Believe I Ate This Cheese' Pound Milk Swiss Naturalish Cheese".
Using this item with three other incinerated treasures formed a Pile of Ash. This item was removed from the game in the July 11, 2012 Patch. As of the November 21, 2013 Patch, it is no longer removed on login, but it may not be used in crafting.
Update history
- [Undocumented] The Cheese Wheel was added to the game.
- [Undocumented] Equipping the Eliminating The Impossible set now shows new descriptions for the Goldfish, Pocket Lint, Cheese Wheel, Banana Peel, Barn Door Plank, Secret Diary, and Damaged Capacitor.
June 27, 2012 Patch (Pyromania Update)
- The Cheese Wheel was incinerated and renamed to Smoked Cheese Wheel.
- All ash-related items have been faded away to dust.
November 21, 2013 Patch (Two Cities Update)
- [Undocumented] This item no longer expires on login, but has been updated to indicate it can no longer be used in crafting.
Trivia
- The item's description changed when viewed while equipping the Eliminating The Impossible set. It changed to "...the hidden wickedness...", with random characters removed, which is a part of a quote from the "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches" short story, part of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes collection. When combined with the other items added in the June 19, 2012 Patch, the full quote read "Think of the deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser."
- The cheese wheel is manufactured by the same company that makes Soldier's low-quality, substituted ingredient, army surplus food supplies, Captain Dan.
- The label on the cheese is suggestive of a number of "I can't believe" tropes, including the commercial campaigns "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!" and especially the 1970 I Can't Believe I Ate the Whole Thing! commercial associated with upset stomachs.
Original item
Cheese Wheel
Level 1 Cheese Wheel
This cheese doesn't seem so mysterious until you realize it's full of bullet holes. Somebody got to this cheese before it could talk.
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