ST. CLOUD, Wis. - String cheese may be a staple of kids' school lunches these days, but the market research that gave rise to the now ubiquitous cheese was conducted during the late 1970s in bars. And ...

Brian Baker is obsessed with string cheese. He talks about it poetically, rambling about the string factor, the machines that pump out individual-sized ropes, the flavor profile of the stick. But ...