Um, hey, uh, Rocky? Hey now, hands off! I'm a bull moose, you silly squirrel!
Posted on 04/27/2007 6:26:43 PM PDT by dirtboy
Healthy, Tasty... Expensive
STOCKHOLM (JP) - Farmers in northern Sweden are milking moose, hoping that cheese-lovers with deep pockets will develop a taste for moose cheese.
It's healthy and tasty - and very expensive (nearly $500 per pound) because moose milk is hard to obtain.
Christer & Ulla Johansson started the 59-acre "Moose House" - the only moose dairy farm in Europe - seven years ago in Bjursholm (400 miles north of Stockholm). Moose House has 14 moose in the fields, but only three cows (Gullan, Haelga & Juna) can be milked. The cows were found as abandoned calves in the woods around Bjursholm, and were taken in by the Johansson family. The domesticated moose stay outdoors all year, and weigh about 500 kilograms (1,100 pounds).
Why so expensive? Moose only produce milk between May and September, and it takes up to two hours to milk a moose, with each producing up to a gallon of milk per day. Moose milk contains 12% fat and 12% protein, is kept refrigerated and curdling is done three times per year – yielding 660 pounds of cheese per year. Made in three varieties, the moose cheese can be sampled at the farm’s restaurant. Sales are mainly to upscale Swedish hotels and restaurants, and they have plans to export more cheese - especially their sour feta-type, which is laid down in oil and is easy to transport.
Moose House attracts 25,000 visitors per year, and is the main attraction in an activity center that also offers fishing, golf, canoe tours, and riding.
PING. C’mere an’ see this.
“two hours to milk a moose,”
I’m a-thinking that the moose ain’t really into that.
Moose milk ping!
Um, hey, uh, Rocky? Hey now, hands off! I'm a bull moose, you silly squirrel!
http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists_a_l/alex_james/article1759438.ece
The most horrible cheese in the world is, without any doubt, the moose cheese of north Norway. They eat it for breakfast. I suppose those of us who like to swim in the deep end of the cheeseboard have worked our way there step-by-step, first by paddling in the rindless mild block cheddars, then splashing around in the Stilton and floating out to sea on a raft of dolcelatte before reaching gingerly for a munster or an époisses.
I’d never so much as heard of the moose-cheese series, and the breakfast bun that I took a huge, hungover chomp on contained an intermediate- to advanced-level stinker that required proper training. The taste was so alien and concentrated that my eyes nearly popped out. I couldn’t swallow it and had to drink lots of water. I’m slightly ashamed to say that I still haven’t been able to pluck up the courage to return to the cheese of the moose, as yet.
“as he had passions for persons . I can adduce this to the
fact that he needed a Child from this relationship, which never came.”
That’s one way to look at it... *giggles* Ahhhh....it was THAT kind of a private practice?!
I believe it’s the sisters who milk the mooses or meece or however the heck you say it, dangerous job!
DOUBLE GACK!
“A moose once bit my sister...”
Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti...
Not quite Bullwinklette.
Nothing gets the ol' heart a pumpin' in the morning quite like almost walking into a bull moose on your back deck. Trust me on this one.
From
http://www.indian-lake.com/moose.htm
“Around 1700, the Swedish cavalry experimented with moose as “combat vehicles.” Easy to train and ride, moose have better stamina and terrain mobility than horses and were expected to terrify enemy forces who probably had never seen a moose. The problem: moose kept running away from loud artillery noises.”
OK...I was worried about moose cheese now you have introduced me to making gravey from the heart...thanks a helluvalot! TRIPLE GACK!!!
Their "elk" are the same as our moose. Our "elk" are American Wapiti.
I’ve tried goat’s milk, but they eat grass like cows and sheep. I somehow can’t picture moose eating grass. They’re too big. Tree leaves and bushes maybe. Or a bale of hay.
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