Dear Joy, thanks for the explanation - there are so many words that we each take for granted, which are totally unfamiliar on the other side of the Atlantic!
Margery. ======================================== [email protected] in North Herts, UK ======================================== > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joy Beeson > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 2:11 PM > To: 'lace-chat' > Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Re: Soup & Stew enhancer > > On 1/23/12 5:36 PM, Margery Allcock wrote: > > > I give in - what's colby? > > A mild cheese of buttery flavor, usually dyed bright orange. > It's slightly softer and a good bit smoother than > cheddar. If you look closely, there are a few small holes, > but these are gaps between curds, not bubbles as in swiss > cheese. > > White colby exists, but is almost unobtainable. The full > name is "longhorn colby", but I haven't heard that phrase in > decades. The traditional package of cheese was half of a > wheel cut off a long horn, or you could get it sliced off > the horn in the deli section. (I suppose the "longhorn" > part of the name was dropped when they started selling it in > other shapes.) > > > > What's a horn? > > A whole cheese -- shaped like a long, narrow cylinder; I > suppose some stretch of the imagination could make it look > like a straight section of an animal's horn. > > > And what's County Line? > > When I was a child, it was a cheese factory located on the > boundary of two northern-Indiana counties (I've forgotten > which ones). I was full grown before I learned that "County > Line cheese" was longhorn colby; Mom never bought any other > brand of colby. Nor did anybody else -- at one time the > distribution of County Line included a few towns in Florida > where elderly Hoosiers spent the winter. > > Late in the twentieth century, County Line was bought out by > a company that wanted only the trademark, which was slapped > onto common cheese -- now there are *many* brands of colby > cheese in Hoosier supermarkets. I got my last batch at > Aldi, pre-sliced. I must remember to pick up one of > Kroger's mini-horns the next time I go to Owen's. > > (Owen's is an odd story: Kroger bought the local > supermarket -- and closed the Kroger store.) > > -- > Joy Beeson > http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ > http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ > http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange > http://www.debeeson.net/LakeCam/LakeCam.html > west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. > Where the rest of the lake thawed last night. > > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing > the line: > unsubscribe lace-chat [email protected]. For help, write to > [email protected]. Photo site: > http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
