Inside the Little Plastic Castle

You may have missed my other reply to Jack's post on cheeses.

This is not necessarily a bad thing: I have linked to a... A thing.

The link is Wikipedia's entry on the... Thing, which is indeed a cheese, in parts; Wikipedia are very matter-of-fact about The Thing and, being Wikipedians, reticent about the things that are rumoured to be true and never written down.

I am not linking to it here. But you can discover all the interesting things about The Thing by Googling with the question "Is it safe to eat Sardininian jumping maggot cheese?"

In other news, seek out Hutterites and Amish farmers in your state: I have sampled cheeses from their dairies in Ontario, and it is a discovery.

One of those discoveries is that there are people throughout North America who cannot eat dairy foods because of allergies; but, in an unknown fraction of those people, the allergy is to the antibiotic residues in dairy products made outside the European Union. We have a couple of these unfortunates over, every other year or so, for our Boxing Day cheese party, who cannot eat dairy in the USA: but they *can* eat cheese produced by Hutterite organic farmers, who use modern vetinary medicines for animal welfare, but not routinely and continuously as 'growth promoters'.