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Cake 
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The Cheese Award! a good thing! ; )
Ummmmm....OST!
God Jul!
prisoner6
Wine and cheese ... two of the basic food groups, right? &;-)
CG, pass me the Bheese.
And Better yet has anyone mentioned "Hatt-Baby" or "Ja-DA" yet?
For clairification and context check out: 1st there was Cheese-eating-sister-biting Mooses, next "AYBABTU" have we moved to the next level?
Oh Yea, and "mental preparation" should be a serious consideration before surfing over!
Cheese, The Story
A HAPPY ACCIDENT
According to a legend, cheese was discovered 4,000 years ago when an Arabian merchant journeyed across the desert, carrying a supply of milk in a pouch. Why this man thought he could cart milk across a desert for a day, no one will ever know. The lining of the pouch, combined with the heat of the sun, caused the milk to separate into curd and whey. That night he drank the whey and chowed on the cheese, and thus, so the story goes, our beloved cheese was born.
CHEESE SPREADS
The art of cheese making traveled from Asia to Europe and flourished. Of course, when the Pilgrims voyaged to America in 1620, they made sure the Mayflower was stocked with cheese. After all, they had to bring along something to make the trip bearable.
BUT DID HE EAT IT ALL?
In 1801 an enterprising cheesemaker delivered a mammoth 1,235 pound wheel of cheese to Thomas Jefferson. Intrigued citizens dubbed it the big cheese, coining the phrase which has since come to describe someone of importance.
MORE AMERICAN CHEESE, PLEASE
Cheese making quickly grew in the New World but remained a local farm industry until 1851. In that landmark year, the first United States cheese factory was built by the brilliant Jesse Williams in Oneida County, New York. As the U.S. population increased, so did theetite for cheese. The industry moved westward, centering on the rich farm lands of Wisconsin, where the American cheese industry really took off. Most Wisconsin farmers believed their survival was tied to cheese. They opened their first cheese factory Limburger in 1868.
20th CENTURY CHEESE
Total natural cheese production expanded from a robust 418 million pounds in 1920 to a whopping 2.2 billion pounds in 1970. By the beginning of the '90s, production had exploded to more than 6 billion pounds a year. Six billion pounds of cheese -- that's like 40 million average-sized people made out of cheese! In addition, consumer demand pushed processed cheese production in the early '90s to exceed 2 billion pounds a year. Today, cheese continues to be one of the most versatile, delicious foods craved from coast to coast and around the world.