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- People often salt slippery, winter roads to melt ice, making it safer to drive and walk on.
- Some counties in Wisconsin have been using cheese brine or a beet juice blend instead.
- Locals say these alternative methods are safer for the environment and, in some cases, cheaper.
People from Wisconsin are sometimes called Cheeseheads. Because of the way some state counties beat icy streets, we might propose calling their highways Cheese-roads.