National Cheese Day

[PJB]

Does anyone know if there's a National Cheese day in the USA? I feel that sometimes cheese doesn't get all the credit it deserves.

[parksie]

Hehehe.

I don't know - although I'm sure you could start one :)

[PJB]

If there's not one i do plan on starting one, i've got to get one of those giant cheese hats

[PJB]

see what i mean nobody cares about cheese, boy that makes me mad

[tumblingdown]

Cheese Rocks!


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[PJB]

glad to see someone appreciates Cheese

[Benjamin]

I love cheese.... swiss, mozerella, american.... any and every kind of cheese :D

[PJB]

that's the ticket

CHEESE IS GREAT! CHEESE IS GREAT! CHEESE IS GREAT!

[parksie]

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[PJB]

Now's there's some Cheese spirit!

CHEESES FOR YOU AND CHEESES FOR ME!!!
GO CHEESE!

[Benjamin]

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[PJB]

beautiful!

HUG A CHEESE TODAY!!!
GO CHEESE!

[PJB]

6 Million BC - No cheese. Nobody leaves their cave. Why bother?
5000 BC - Discovery of fire, and also the tuna melt.
4000 BCE - The Italians invent cheese.
3500 BCE - Italians in Sumeria invent the wheel: ideal shape for cheese. Also good for transportation.
2560 BCE - Egyptians build pyramids. Italians build mountains of grated Parmesan.
2000 BCE - Italians in China invent ice cream: prototype for Italian gelato.
1800 BCE - Mystical rocks of Stonehenge are shlepped to southern England. Used as model for cheddar chunks.
776 BCE - The First Olympics in Greece. Mammoth dried ziti are hurled as spears.
[ROMAN ERA]
753 BCE - Romulus and Remus establish Rome!
100 BCE - Well-to-do Romans maintain separate kitchens just for cheese.
120 BCE - Lions at Coliseum stop eating men; insist on cheese instead.
43 BCE - Rome conquers England, bringing cheese. Grateful English name a town after their favorite Italian cheese, Cheddar.
800 BCE - Charlemagne is crowned Emperor. Parmesan is crowned King of Cheeses.
[MIDDLE AGES]
1066 CE - Norman Conquest of England to gain access to Italian Cheddar.
1200-1300 - Everybody loves Romano! Also, some knight named Lancelot falls in love with Guinivere.
1453 - The French end their Hundred Years' War with England, agreeing that Parmesan is every bit as delizioso as Romano or Cheddar.
1492 - Nice Italian boy named Columbus sails to the New World. Go, Christoforo!
[RENAISSANCE]
1506 - Leonardo da Vinci tells Mona Lisa to say "cheese." Art is changed forever.
1530 - Italian King Charles VIII visits Piacenza. Townspeople honor him with Parmesan wheels as big as cartwheels.
1608 - Landing at Plymouth Rock. Pilgrims eat with Indians, who bring along some risotto, antipasto and a nice Chianti.
1776 - America demands to be free from England to make its own cheddar. Instigators later travel to what is now Wisconsin.
1848 - Communist Manifesto written. Not a word about cheese. Communism ultimately fails as a result.
1859 - Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species" published. Court case centered around whether monkeys ate cheese too.
1840 - Queen Victoria gets mammoth cheddar wheel as a wedding gift. Also, 10 toasters, 35 cake plates and 15 copies of the CD, "Yanni for Lovers".
[MODERN ERA]
1903 - Wright Brothers succeed with first flight at Kittyhawk. Italy's plans for cheese export are looking up.
1908 - Henry Ford sees wheel of cheese. Inspired, he builds the Model T.
1937 - Stock Market Crash. Men leap out of Wall Street windows, distraught at inability to afford good Italian cheese.
July 20, 1969 - Man goes to Moon. Not made of cheese. Man goes home.
1970 - Beatles cross Abbey Road to get some Parmesan. Cheese store is closed; band breaks up. Sad.
1989 - Berlin Wall crumbles like a nice gorgonzola.
20005 - Mama's Cucina appears on the Web. History, eh!
20007 - Ragú introduces Cheese Creations! The rest is history.

[HarryW]

You a Green Bay Packers fan by any chance? (think it's them with the cheese)

[PJB]

yes it's the Green Bay Packers that have the "cheeseheads"

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.

For gods sake just go and make a green salad...and then shave some parmesan onto it...or make a spag boll...(incidently for that extra taste throw a couple of anchovies into the sauce...beautiful doesn't taste fishy at all)....and serve with dashings of parmesan. Damn off to make a cheese sandwich....or maybe two for lunch.

[YoungBuck]

New discovery in my life:

The worse the cheese smells the better it tastes!

Goes and gets the Feta and Ritz. (damn ya'll made me hungry :p)

[PJB]

"A cheese a day keeps the doctor away"
GO CHEESE!

[tumblingdown]

Get your Cheese on, get your Cheese on baby...


td.

[Ianpbaker]

I'm sad to say that i'm allergic to cheese, and haven't been able to eat it for 8 years. damn I wish I could again

[G.Kumaraguru]

Jerry without Cheese....Impossible!!!

Even Tom can't stop him.

[tumblingdown]

Let Cheese into your life ;-)



td.

[PJB]

i feel your pain and mourn for your loss

Cheese is good food!
GO CHEESE!

[Ianpbaker]

thank you PJB