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Show Notes
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nottingham_cheese_riot
https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/mammoth-cheese/
This Week in Cheese
Episode Transcript
Just Cheesy, the podcastpresented by Just Cheesy Productions.
Fondue your host with the mosthere, bringing you another episode
of Cheese Bites.
And I'm cheesy.
We're talking 1766.
1776.
No, for real. 1766 and acheese riot. We're talking the American
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cheese timeline. We're talkingabout a giant wheel of cheese, a
cheesemaker you can buy, and atractor trailer that's spelled and
of course, a. A cheesy joke.Get ready for cheese bites.
1766.
It's July 4th weekend here inthe United States, and I thought
we'd talk a little bit aboutsome cheese in 1766.
1776. Duh.
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No, I know. In 1766, beforethe United States gained independence,
there was something called theGreat Cheese Riot. It started at
the annual goose fair wherelocals would traditionally buy and
sell cheese. A lot of it. Butthat year, food prices were really
high due to a terribleharvest. So when some cheese loving
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merchants from Lincolnshiretried to make off with all of the
Nottingham cheese, the localsweren't having it. The Nottingham
locals demanded that themerchants leave the cheese in the
town. When they refused, chaosbroke out. Shops and warehouses were
looted and cheese wheels wereliterally rolled through the streets
like dairy cannonballs.
Holy cow.
Even the mayor, Robbie Swan,got knocked off his feet by a flying
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wheel of cheese. A cargo boatfull of cheese was hijacked, A warehouse
was attacked. Roadblocks wereset up to stop the cheese from leaving
the city. It got so bad thatthe army was called in.
Holy cow.
Apparently, the 1st Regimentof Light Dragoons showed up. This
is when things turned bad. Alocal farmer named William Eggleston
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was killed and he was likelytrying to protect his own cheese,
but was mistaken for a looter.
Oh, no.
This riot lasted days andafterward, cheese wagons were escorted
out with armed guards. Andapparently the Great Cheese Riot
was just one of many foodrelated uprisings across England
that year. But Nottingham'swas the most dramatic. In 2016, they
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marked its 250th anniversarywith the mayor and a local cheese
shop. America was born in1776, but did you know that cheese
was here before that?
Really?
The pilgrims actually broughtestablished recipes like cheddar
from Europe all the way backin the 1600s. According to cheeseteak.com,
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these cheeses were made forhome consumption. They say here the
sturdiest specimens, whichwere mainly cheddar, began to be
sold at market. GeorgeWashington, our very first president,
happened to like cheese.
Really?
They say that in MountVernon's kitchen. They included cheese
making supplies. And recordsshow that cheese was part of his
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regular meals. He owned dairycows and on his farm they made cheese.
Washington surely wasn't theonly president with cheese as part
of his history.
Right?
According to Monticello.orgthere was something called the mammoth
cheese. Now, we've talkedabout this before, but it's definitely
worth talking about again. In1801, Elder John Leland sent a 1200
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pound wheel of cheese to thePresident as a thank you.
Holy cow.
John Leland and the ladies ofhis Baptist congregation in Cheshire,
Massachusetts used the milkfrom 900 cows to craft the cheese.
They pressed it into a sixfoot cylinder press and sent it on
its way. They sent this cheeseall the way from Massachusetts to
Washington, D.C. really? Andremember I said it was sent in 1801.
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They had to use sleighs, boatsand wagons in order to deliver this
to Thomas Jefferson on NewYear's Day in 1802. And they say
here that nobody really knowswhat happened to the cheese. Some
say it was eaten, some say itspoiled. And although there is no
precise date given for thecheese's ultimate disposal, it appears
to have been present at thePresident's house following New Year's
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Day. And it was reported tostill be there as late as March of
1804.
1804.
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And they describe it as farfrom being good. Some accounts say
that it was served at apresidential reception in 1805 or
it was dumped into the Potomacat some date unknown. The mammoth
cheese is not a sponsor, butif it was, the ad would go right
here. We talked about thisrecently, but I think now we have
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a dollar amount. According toinvestopedia.com there is a cheese
factory. It's actually theoldest one in the country. It's called
Crowley cheese. It's based inVerm, and it's been around for more
than 200 years. But guesswhat? This bad boy is up for sale
with an asking price of $2.5 million.
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Holy cow.
So if you've got the money andyou want to go to Vermont, there's
a cheese making factory herejust for you. Yeah. It's time for
my favorite segment this week.According to wpxi.com there was a
terrible accident. There was acrash that split open a tractor trailer
on a Pennsylvania highway. Oh,no. This accident was so resulted
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in one of the tractor trailersripping open.
What?
And it spilled packages ofmozzarella cheese all over the freeway.
In fact, the debris field ofthe cheese spill stretched the length
of two football fields.
Holy cow.
Thankfully, no one was hurt,but the cheese did have to be thrown
out because it was withoutrefrigeration for hours.
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I'm ready for a joke fondue.
Okay. Why did the mayor bancheese after the riot?
I don't know. Why?
Because it became a wheelie.Big problem. Oh, get it? Because
wheels of cheese for throat.
Oh, yeah, that was silly.
Oh, I know it's silly. And alittle bit cheesy. Thanks for listening
to Just Cheesy, the podcast,our short summer series called Cheese
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Bites.
Cheese Bites.
If you have any ideas forupcoming episodes, feel free to reach
out to us info@justcheesy.comand stay cheesy, everybody.
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