Editing String cheese (section)

===United States===
[[File:String Cheese (7973943306) (cropped).jpg|thumb|American string cheese]]
In the [[United States]], string cheese generally refers to snack-sized servings of low-moisture [[mozzarella]]. This form of string cheese is roughly cylindrical, about {{convert|6|in|cm}} long and less than {{convert|1|in|cm}} in diameter.

The cheese used is commonly a form of mozzarella, or a combination of mozzarella and [[cheddar cheese|cheddar]]. This type of string cheese gets its name because it can be eaten by pulling strips of cheese from the cylinder along its length and eating these strings.<ref>{{cite news|title=What Makes String Cheese Stringy?|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/16/string-cheese_n_1423938.html|department=Kitchen Daily|work=HuffPost|access-date=6 September 2012|date=16 April 2012}}</ref> It was invented in 1976 by Frank Baker.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Basu|first1=Tanya|title=The Secret Life of String Cheese|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/11/the-secret-life-of-string-cheese/383001/|access-date=23 November 2014|work=[[The Atlantic]]|publisher=[[Atlantic Media]]|date=21 November 2014}}</ref>