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Skriven 2008-03-18 02:23:18 av BURTON FORD (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av GLEN JAMIESON
Ärende: HOLY CHEESE  80315
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Ho Glen              3/18/08 12:30 AM


gj-> Like splitting logs?  Did she have to use a hammer to drive in the
gj-> wedges?  Did everyone get free samples of the parmesan?

Yes, yrs and yes.

gj-> The cheeses, which were each about 2.5 metres long by 50 cm diameter, 
BF> Good Heavens, 2.5 meters is Eight [8] feet long!   
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bf->  that's around 180kg. of Parmesan!

gj-> Errr, check your calculations.  The dimensions were an eye estimate.
gj-> Could have been a bit longer. Each one weighed in at 450kg, making a
gj-> total of about one US Ton of provolone cheese! 

Geeeese Teach!  I made an estimate using a 20 year old density of 
grated Provolone cheese...I knew that wold be conservative. I repeat; 
what a monster cheese!  a ton of cheese in one hunk, whew.

Just for general interest, from a quick search on the 'Net:
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The world's largest wheel of cheese was unveiled by Beemster, a Dutch
manufacturer of gourment cheeses. The record-setting appetizer was 
more than 6ft (1.8m) wide and weighed in at 1,323 pounds (600 kg).
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Burt: That was in 2006.  I guess it meant it was the largest in the world
_at the time!_   Because back in 1964:

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What was the world's largest cheese?   At the 1964 World's Fair in 
New York the Wisconsin Pavilion displayed the world's largest 
cheese.  Using 16,000 cows to produce 170,000 quarts of milk, 
Wisconsin  had the ingredients they need to make the world's 
largest cheese. The world's largest cheese measured a cheddary
14 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 5 1/2 feet and weighed a cheesy 34,591 pounds.  
The cheese was cut into pieces and eaten in 1965.
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Burt but then:
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The Largest Cheese in the World
The world's largest cheese ever made was Chedder cheese.
It weighed 57,508 pounds and 8 oz.  Made on September 7, 1995. 
It was made by Loblaws Supermarket and  Agropour Dairys in Quebec, Canada. 

Other Notable Cheeses
40,060 pounds made on March1988.  World's record holder for 1988  34,591 pounds
made in January 1964. It took 183 tons of milk.

13,440 pounds made in July 1957.  It used the milk from  6,000 cows.  11,815
pounds made in January 1937.   It came from 367 farms.
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I give up.

P.S.  The largest Australian cheese I could find was 133 pounds... some
guy in Adelaide, SA


Burt
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