Re: Re: Query re bleu cheese

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At 04:04 PM 2/17/05 -0000, you wrote:

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>http://mag.leftcoastart.com/html/farmstead_cheeses.html

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> " Maytag Dairy Farms-Jim s, Newton, Iowa

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>Nobody believes me when I tell them, but Maytag Blue is made by the

>same family who started the famous washing machine company. It's true.

>They also own Anchor Steam beer. The cheese is one of the premier

>American cheeses and one of the worlds' best blues-sharp and a tad

>salty with a wonderfully fruity, peppery blue flavor. It is the ideal

>blue cheese for a mixed greens salad or over a grilled burger.

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> Picture

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>Each 4-pound wheel is handmade from unpasteurized cow's milk from

>their award-winning Holstein-Friesian cows, which graze on 1,600 acres

>of beautiful Iowa countryside. The curd is hand-seeded with

>Penicillium roqueforti, then hand-ladled into hoops, hand-salted and

>aged for six months, twice as long as most, in cellars carved into the

>side of a hill on the farm. Each wheel is inspected and turned

>separately every week in the curing cave.

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>President and Farm Manager Jim s began work on the farm when he

>was 18-years-old, scrubbing the mold off the cheeses, and has now been

>with Maytag for almost fifty-two years. He speaks of the Farms with

>great pride and affection.

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>Maytag also makes a wonderful white cheddar and, not available all of

>the time, a superb, tangy goat blue and goat edam. Mail-order still

>accounts for about 50% of Maytag sales. "

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>Gee, I'm gettin hungry.

>FWIW I believe blue cheese contains gluten.

> B.

Yeah, I'm getting hungry too.

Buuttttttttttt ... does this family protect their trademark? I

guess the question *really* is: What is the likelihood that things

marketed as " Maytag Blue " really ARE the real thing? (As opposed to,

say, " in the Maytag style " ... which could mean anything, not just whether

it's raw or not heh.)

PS Anchor Steam's pretty good too.

MFJ

If I have to be a grownup, can I at least be telekinetic too?