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Was there ever a war fought over cheese?

There's a story that Gavrilo Princip, who killed archduke Franz Ferdinand and which led to World War I, was eating a sandwich when Ferdinand suddenly passes by in his open limousine.

In 1937, the "Cheese War" occurred between Switzerland and France, where a dispute over cheese tariffs resulted in a blockade of French cheese, causing great tension between the two countries.

It seems to be reasonable to start a war over cheese.

“How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?” ― Charles de Gaulle