LL-L 'Delectables' 2006.07.16 (02) [E/LS]

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L O W L A N D S - L * 14 July 2006 * Volume 01
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From: 'Global Moose Translations' <globalmoose at t-online.de
Subject: LL-L 'Delectables' 2006.07.15 (03) [E]

Ron, Tom:
>Thanks for reminding us of another (less scary) type of North German
cheese, Tom:
>Muenster.

But as far as I know, Muenster cheese is not from the city of Muenster in
Germany; it's from Alsace.

And those few far-fetched examples (even Tilsit and Limburger are not from
Schleswig-Holstein or Lower Saxony!) certainly do not answer my question,
they only make me wonder more: why are there no German Lowlands cheeses to
speak of, although we traditionally have just as many cows and use just as
much milk, cream and butter as our neighbours across the border? To quote
Charlie Chan: Is puzzlement.

Gabriele Kahn

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Delectables

Gabriele:

> And those few far-fetched examples (even Tilsit and Limburger 
> are not from Schleswig-Holstein or Lower Saxony!)

OK.  Be like that!  I was just trying to help.

I got it!  Earlier North Germans were incompetent cheese makes.  They never
figured out how to store cheese properly, made lots of mistakes, such as letting
cheese get infested by creepy-crawlies.  The "spider cheese" treasured nextdoor
to you is the only one of that sort that caught on and stayed around, but only
locally, perhaps because people there were so desperate (_In der Not frisst der
Teufel Milben_).

There you have it.

Or did in earlier times the notorious North German tradition of _Krüschheit_
(pickiness that rejects anything that has flavor and aroma, or anything that is
new) play a role in this as well?  (_Igitt-igitt! Kees'? Nä, den kannst ja rüken!
Äch! Nä! Daar bliev' mi vun af mit! Den äät ik nich, un de kümmt mi ook nich in
't Huus._)

For instance, the Elbe island I am from (now a part of Hamburg but earlier under
Hanover and Brunswick administration) had mostly dairy farms in the olden days.
Farmers would take milk and butter over to Hamburg on barges, on sleds when the
river was frozen.  I've never heard of cheese-making ventures there.  It really
is puzzling.  Run out of business by more competent or skilled "Dutch" immigrants
perhaps?

Reinhard/Ron

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