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[Courk]

Obligatory link to the puzzle.

[Suspence]

No real idea yet, just happy to have a GLP to work on.

String lengths and letter frequency below:

LMRERAOIISCAAMEARPSDTOOTUEOTNARER - 33
CCHAESVEEAHDDRITRVAREIER - 24
WEPEMNEASLMRMEEYDNETDSALMELN - 28
LDECIRAMBURRLAGLEYEUESR - 23
BTARSTSILALTSEOINGTO - 20
COAOMTETSOMBTLWOAEGBRLYDET - 26
LCNAIENAUECLFRPACSCHEASTIILTREELRLYE - 36
RPGMRORZGVMZOANORLAZELOONLNOLAEA - 32
RGBOGRQOOUEYFREODSRIARNET - 25

a 25
b 5
c 9
d 8
e 35
f 2
g 7
h 3
i 11
j 0
k 0
l 20
m 11
n 11
o 20
p 4
q 1
r 28
s 13
t 16
u 5
v 3
w 2
x 0
y 5
z 3
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[3iff]

Nothing so far...but I have a sneaking feeling of "scampi" on line 1 and "gorgonzola" on line 8. Almost certainly wrong so treat with care.

I was toying with arranging the letters in boxes but 33 means just 3 * 11, and 23 is a real problem.

[Suspence]

GORGONZOLA MOZZARELLA PROVALONE with a remainder of RMN (which is close to ROMANO?)

"Smile for the Camera" may mean we are looking for "cheese" in all of these.

Line 2 has CHEDDAR and HAVARTI

Line 4 has LIMBURGER

Line 9 has ROQUEFORT

I'm guessing the cheeses in each line are from a specific area.
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[Gomez*]

What I've got so far:

1. ???
2. CHEDDAR
3. WENSLEYDALE
4. LIMBURGER
5. BRIE? (Not sure about this one. Seems a bit too short)
6. CAMEMBERT
7. ???
8. MOZZARELLA
9. ROQUEFORT

[Suspence]

AMERICAN in line 1
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[3iff]

I like it...I was worried about the link to the puzzle title, but cheeses makes sense.

What a pity I hate cheese.

Just need a giant list of cheeses. Monty Python/cheeseshop anyone?

[Suspence]

It seems like only one cheese in each line can be found with the letters sequentially, which is the basis for Gomez' list I believe.

I had to skip around the string to get the other cheeses. Skipping around in Line 1 can give either AMERICAN or MASCARPONE. I've yet to find a sequential cheese name in Line 1.
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[Suspence]

Hmm...looks like PROVALONE is actually spelled PROVOLONE. My bad.

So I can get GORGONZOLA MOZZARELLA ROMANO with PRVLNE left over.

CACHAILLE can be found sequentially in Line 7

GRUYERE is sequentially in Line 9, but so is ROQUEFORT. They'd both have to utilize the same U.
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[Sentran]

I like where you're going with this. Perhaps, in the reverse of the Sandwiches puzzle, the missing letters spell the answer to the puzzle?
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[Suspence]

Given this:
GORGONZOLA MOZZARELLA ROMANO with PRVLNE left over

It's possible that the goal is to find 3 cheeses in each line, then the remaining letters will be missing one letter to make a 4th cheese. In this case that would be O, as in prOvOlOne.

So perhaps Line 7 gives us O, and we need to find one letter for each line to make a 9 letter word.
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[Suspence]

Here are the cheeses I've found that can be spelled sequentially. For the lines where 4 cheeses have been found, the "leftovers" are the unused letters if the first available instance of each letter is utilized:

1) MASCARPONE
2) CHEDDAR / CHEVRE
3) WENSLEYDALE
4) LIMBURGER / DERBY / DURRUS / CABRALES - Leftover: LEE
5) STILTON / BRIE / ASIAGO / TILSIT - Leftover: SL
6) CAMEMBERT
7) CACHAILLE
8) GORGONZOLA / ROMANO / MOZZARELLA / PROVOLONE - Leftover: AONOLA
9) ROQUEFORT / GRUYERE
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[LordKinbote]

Hmm...Foggy Brume wrote basically this same puzzle for the Puzzle Boat. It too had to do with cheese.

Edit: Well, it wasn't *exactly* the same, but it did involve figuring out how to read strings of letters.

[Suspence]

http://www.mit.edu/~puzzle/09/puzzles/sweet_cheeses/SOLUTION/
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[LordKinbote]

[Suspence]

The guy likes cheese.

Line 4 contains DERBY, DURRUS and CABRALES
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[Suspence]

1) MASCARPONE / LEICESTER / ROCAMADOUR / RICOTTA - Leftover: RAOOR
2) CHEDDAR / HERVE / HAVARTI / CHESHIRE - Leftover: CEEER
3) WENSLEYDALE / PARMESAN / EMMENTAL / EDAM - Leftover: EEEDL
4) LIMBURGER / DERBY / DURRUS / CABRALES - Leftover: LEE
5) STILTON / BRIE / ASIAGO / TILSIT - Leftover: SL
6) CAMEMBERT / COLBY / COTTAGE / TOMA - OSTWOLD
7) CACHAILLE / LANCASHIRE / NEUFCHATEL / CAERPHILLY - Leftover: IAULCSITRL
8) GORGONZOLA / ROMANO / MOZZARELLA / PROVOLONE - Leftover: AONOLA
9) ROQUEFORT / GRUYERE / BOURSIN / GOUDA - Leftover: OR

http://www.cheese.com/all.asp

RAOORCEEREEEDLLEESLOSTWOLDIAULCSITRLAONOLAOR

I suppose we need to do the same with this string of leftovers. It seems a bit long, perhaps there are actually five cheeses per line? (BRA and BRIE are in Line 9, for example, but wouldn't eliminate any leftovers)
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[Suspence]

GRANA is in Line 8 and would eliminate the first leftover A.

Cheeses in the current leftover string:
ROLLOT
ADELOST
ORLA
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[Oscar]

I'm pretty sure the answer is given by finding the correct combination of four cheeses which can be spelled using combinations of the 9 strings of the given order which utilise all the letters in the string, only one of which must be used by all four.
e.g. form string one you can spell (as Suspence suggested) each of:
Mascarpone, Leicester, Rocamadour and Ricotta where only the 'C' must be used by all of these.

Using (mostly) the strings given by Suspence (except string 4 where BLUE is required, and string 6 where COTSWOLD needs to be used) you find that only one letter in each is used by all four, spelling:
CHABICHOU

[Suspence]

Sweet! Nicely solved, Oscar!
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[Texasparagus]

[Jack_Ian]