Got Cheese?

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[PeteFromMontana]

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania -- Herd boys tug at camels' udders, loosing the raw material for a unique, creamy cheese this desert nation's growers hope to place alongside Roquefort and cheddar on the world's crackers.

If foreigners bite, camel cheese exports could put sorely needed cash in the robes of this West African nation's nomads, helping them to modernize herding practices.

[PeteFromMontana]

I can remember as a kid my Dad trying to trick us into drinking goat milk. Fortunately for us kids Mom warned us in advance.

[PoorMuttly]

Are camels in the moose family ?

[PeteFromMontana]

Oh no... you didn't just mutter the M word did you???

[Redcloak]

Actually, they're related to llamas. (Not quite as nasti as mooseses, but still foul beasts.)

[NicknamedBob]

"If foreigners bite, camel cheese exports could put sorely needed cash..."

Kinda puts a new spin on the idea of building a better mousetrap( a better m00setrap?). Maybe they could establish a market in Iraq, since folks are paying a lot of attention to that area, and the rules are currently a little more open.

[PeteFromMontana]

Hmmmmmmmmmm...Yet another Camel story to ponder....

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20031115_957.html

Chinese Hold Camel Beauty Contest
Camel Beauty Contest Held in China's Inner Mongolia, an Ancient Dromedary Junction

The Associated Press


BEIJING Nov. 15 ? Shiny hair. Upright humps. Sharp outfits. And definitely no swimsuit competition. If you're in the market for a beautiful camel, those are apparently the things you might want to consider. And in northern China, they're doing just that holding a dromedary beauty contest as part of what is billed as "the first international camel festival."

The beauty competition in the Inner Mongolia region attracted nearly 100 dressed-up camels "as well as more than 2,000 fans," the official Xinhua News Agency said Saturday. It didn't specify who the "fans" were or where they came from.

The judges, mostly experienced camel herders, described the criteria for victory to Xinhua: The camels, they said, "should have good appearance shiny hair and upright humps and should be good dressers wearing beautiful halters and saddles in a proper way."

The contest was held in a community called Alxa League, known as the "camel hometown." It has one-third of China's camels and is the main habitat for the double-humped Bactrian camel, Xinhua said. The two-humped Bactrian is indigenous to Mongolia and was domesticated some 3,000 years ago.

Dry weather in recent years has hurt the area's environment, though, and Xinhua said the number of camels has dropped to 68,000 from 250,000 in the 1980s.

Festival sponsors said they wanted the camel beauty competition to generate more attention for the beasts.

"We hope the government can set up a natural reserve and a genetic database for Bactrian camels to keep a stable population of the species while promoting the development of camel product enterprises," said an Alxa League official, quoted by Xinhua.
hat's up with all the camel stories?

[NicknamedBob]

"...tastes similar to goat cheese, but spreads and looks more like brie or Camembert..."

...and gives you an overwhelming temptation to spit afterwards.

[NicknamedBob]

"...should have good appearance shiny hair and upright humps and should be good dressers wearing beautiful halters..."

...after all, you don't want to be running late, and get stuck with an ugly camel.

Upright humps? Can they use Viagra?

[tet68]

Hope she doesn't fall by the whey side.

Nursery rime interlude.

Little miss muffet sat on a tuffet
eating her camel curds and whey.
Along came a spider, who sat down beside her
and said, " Allah akbar. Convert to Islam or die"
Splat went the spider, that sat down beside her
as she calmly squashed it with a brick.
"My dad's in Iraq, she said, he told me what to do to
spiders like you."

Moral of the story is, don't mess with a muffet
wearing red, white, and blue.

[socal_parrot]

I like cheese.

[PeteFromMontana]

That's great!

[Publius]

"At first they said it wasn't milk, because it wasn't the secretion of cows, sheep, ewes, or buffalos" as defined by EU laws, she says, although that hurdle fell to her lobbying efforts.

In its initial season, the British TV show "Yes, Prime Minister" had an episode about the EU's food code and how it affected the status of the British "banger". This sounds a lot like it.

Don't be so quick to dump on goat milk cheeses. Coming from an Italian background, I grew up with cheeses to be put on pasta that were based on goat's milk. And having a gourmet supermarket just down the street from me (here in the Seattle suburbs), I've been exposed to Spanish cheeses based on sheep's milk that are some of the best I've ever tasted.

Camel's milk cheeses may be the next big thing. Think in terms of what happened after the Crusaders came home after being exposed to Middle Eastern spices and cuisine.

[Lazamataz]

Does Muttly eat cheese?

Does Muttly eat mooses (meeses) (mices) (moosii)?

Does Muttly eat moose cheese?

[Allegra]

Where, oh where is The Cheese Family?

[Lazamataz]

Dear Fox News,
Message recieved. We appreciate you reading Free Republic. The Cheese reference is a dead giveaway. To signify you read this response, please write an article with a Moose angle in the next week.

Yours, Laz.

[Lazamataz]

I'm going to rewrite your nursery rhyme for improved meter:

Little Miss Muffet,
Sat on a tuffet,
Eating her Kurds and whey.
Along came an spider,
Who sat down beside her,
Saying, "Worship Allah today."
Splat went the spider,
That sat down beside her
As she calmly squashed it with a brick.
"Don't preach Islam to me,
You creepy Wahhabbi
Cuz I'll f**k you up, you prick."

[humblegunner]

Here they are in all their glory!

[hunter112]

Here's to the poet laureates of Free Republic! You two have summed it up!

[Allegra]

"Daddy, what are those grapes doing?"

[southernnorthcarolina]

I think I'll stick with Venezualan Beaver Cheese, thanks.