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Swedish Treat: Moose Cheese
http://www.joe-ks.com/archives_jul2004/Moose_Cheese.htm ^

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.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: beeber; cheese; elk; moose; ohboy; scandinavia; sister; sweden
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To: thecabal

PING. C’mere an’ see this.


21 posted on 04/27/2007 6:49:40 PM PDT by magslinger (Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors. And miss. R.A.Heinlein)
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To: dirtboy

“two hours to milk a moose,”
I’m a-thinking that the moose ain’t really into that.


22 posted on 04/27/2007 6:50:34 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
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To: martin_fierro

Moose milk ping!


23 posted on 04/27/2007 6:51:55 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
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To: dirtboy

Um, hey, uh, Rocky? Hey now, hands off! I'm a bull moose, you silly squirrel!

24 posted on 04/27/2007 6:52:59 PM PDT by MilesVeritatis (War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things...." - John Stuart Mill)
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To: MilesVeritatis

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.


25 posted on 04/27/2007 6:53:38 PM PDT by dirtboy (JimRob's 12th Commandment: Thou shall not trash actual pubbies on FR to pimp false pubbies)
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To: leilani; Eurotwit
Mooth ping! ;>) Image hosted by Moothbucket.com
26 posted on 04/27/2007 6:54:00 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy ("Everyone knows there's a difference between Muslims and terrorists. No one knows what it is, tho...)
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To: kalee

“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?!


27 posted on 04/27/2007 6:54:04 PM PDT by Cailleach
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To: dirtboy; Charles Henrickson; WesternCulture; mikrofon; dynachrome
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28 posted on 04/27/2007 6:54:05 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: dirtboy

I believe it’s the sisters who milk the mooses or meece or however the heck you say it, dangerous job!


29 posted on 04/27/2007 6:54:36 PM PDT by jazusamo (http://warchronicle.com/TheyAreNotKillers/DefendOurMarines.htm)
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To: dirtboy

DOUBLE GACK!


30 posted on 04/27/2007 6:56:07 PM PDT by antivenom (If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much damn space!)
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To: antivenom
Alternative class teaches students how to dress a moose
31 posted on 04/27/2007 6:58:21 PM PDT by dirtboy (JimRob's 12th Commandment: Thou shall not trash actual pubbies on FR to pimp false pubbies)
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To: dirtboy
moose milk is hard to obtain

Ya, fur sur, dats vat I sey

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32 posted on 04/27/2007 6:58:22 PM PDT by David_G_Burnet
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To: gate2wire

“A moose once bit my sister...”

Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti...


33 posted on 04/27/2007 6:58:30 PM PDT by cowtowney
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To: David_G_Burnet
Kewl. A moose cheese Wikipedia meltdown
34 posted on 04/27/2007 7:00:55 PM PDT by dirtboy (JimRob's 12th Commandment: Thou shall not trash actual pubbies on FR to pimp false pubbies)
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To: dirtboy
I remember this story from years ago. And for what it's worth, European "moose" is basically elk.

Not quite Bullwinklette.

35 posted on 04/27/2007 7:05:46 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: AnAmericanMother
They're cute, but I wouldn't want one in the back yard,

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.

36 posted on 04/27/2007 7:06:01 PM PDT by LexBaird (98% satisfaction guaranteed. There's just no pleasing some people.)
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To: dirtboy

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.”


37 posted on 04/27/2007 7:06:25 PM PDT by WesternCulture
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To: dirtboy

OK...I was worried about moose cheese now you have introduced me to making gravey from the heart...thanks a helluvalot! TRIPLE GACK!!!


38 posted on 04/27/2007 7:07:10 PM PDT by antivenom (If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much damn space!)
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To: Calvin Locke
I remember this story from years ago. And for what it's worth, European "moose" is basically elk.

Their "elk" are the same as our moose. Our "elk" are American Wapiti.

39 posted on 04/27/2007 7:08:03 PM PDT by LexBaird (98% satisfaction guaranteed. There's just no pleasing some people.)
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To: AnAmericanMother

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.


40 posted on 04/27/2007 7:11:08 PM PDT by BobS
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