RE: Wormy cheese

["Paul Melson" <pmelson () gmail com>]

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Subject: [Dailydave] Wormy cheese

> What is it about curdled milk that is so amazingly complex that no one in
the New World 
> has figured it out? It's cheaper to buy a 1G USB key than it is a pound of
decent 
> cheese over here, which is nutty. I can understand that there aren't a
whole lot of 
> cows in Florida (quadrupeds, that is), but it seems like maybe a farmer in
the Midwest 
> could use the downtime from Katrina's destruction of our Mississippi
seaport to figure 
> out how to make blue cheese that didn't taste like a weak cheddar, or a
cheddar that 
> tasted something other than a harder swiss. 

Probably not.  There is a value to culture and tradition that cannot be
synthesized. 

http://shop.msu.edu/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=DAIRY-4

It also goes to show what Midwestern Ag. majors can do with lots of
technology and a few bad ideas. :-)

PaulM