Recommended not to refrigerate fresh cheese curds

Stopped by the Mars Cheese Castle today. * I had a couple of bags of the refrigerated curds in my basket when the check out guy told me that on Tuesdays they sell fresh (Malcore) ones and why don't I sample one of those before buying the refrigerated ones. As I was checking out with two bags of the fresh curds, he also told me that I shouldn't refrigerate them if I am going to consume them within 48 hours. I did a little searching and found this from a food market blog:

"Wisconsin is the only state which has laws on the books regulating the sale of fresh curds. When we receive the curds they are coming directly from the cheese factory. These one pound bags are brought to the cheese department and are kept at a demo station. According to Wisconsin law we are not permitted to refrigerate the fresh curds!...Malcore’s also provides us with refrigerated curds. These curds are kept in the cheese coolers. They are the same exact curd but must be kept refrigerated as indicated by Wisconsin law."

http://blogs.sendiksmarket.com/sendiks/ ... /cheese/63


* My reward for driving my wife to Racine to pick up some quilts.

learned not to EVER put cheese curds in the fridge within about 2hrs of moving to the Dairy State more then 30yrs ago--don't kill the squeak! And in the middle of Wisc the white curds from Knowlton are usually better then the orange variety in Rudolph----but the cheeses are better in Rudolph