my great-grandfather's recipe. my 3D-printed mold.
A recipe that's outlasted five presidents. Built in a college kitchen. Shipped nationwide.
it started with her grandmother's book club.
Caroline Kersey grew up eating her great-grandfather's cheese straws at every family gathering in LaGrange, Georgia. When her grandmother asked her to make a batch for her book club, she said yes — and demand blew up from there.
Word spread to neighbors, churches, brides. Within months she was making cheese straws out of her college kitchen in Athens every weekend. The problem: the recipe doesn't scale easily. A traditional press is slow. She was a UGA marketing and entrepreneurship student with limited time and unlimited orders.
So she did what any engineering-minded college student would do.
she designed a mold and 3D-printed it to fit a caulk gun.
Same great-grandfather's recipe. Same four ingredients. Same shape they've always been. She didn't inherit a factory — she engineered one from scratch.
The recipe is unchanged. The output is not.
three things that made this possible.
The recipe
Four generations, LaGrange, Georgia. Sharp cheddar and real butter, pressed into the same shape they've always been. No ingredient has changed since her great-grandfather first made them.
The mold
Caroline didn't inherit a factory. She designed a custom caulk gun mold and 3D-printed it herself. That's how a UGA student scales a century-old recipe without changing it.
The grind
Started pre-pandemic. She shattered her spine in high school. She kept going. The brand is shipping nationwide. She's still a student. That's the whole story.
“the recipe is four generations old and unchanged. the brand is shipping nationwide. that's the story.”
— Caroline Kersey
The Ingredients. Still the Same.
Sharp cheddar · Real butter · All-purpose flour · Salt · A little cayenne. No preservatives. No shortcuts. No “cheese flavoring.”
made in Athens. loved everywhere.
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