[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Edam (was: Unfamiliar Words in GoF

[Amanda Lewanski]

"Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" wrote:

> > A great, excited *what*? What on Earth is an 'Edam'?
>
> Do you know those Dutch cheeses that are the shape of a flattened
> sphere and covered in a layer of bright red wax? One of them is named
> Edam and the other is named Gouda. Both are hard cheeses of
> yellow-white color, but I can't tell them apart by taste.

My mom told me that my grandfather called edam "the cheese that was made
backwards." You guys can figure it out; it took me a bit when I was ten,
but most of us are older than that....

--Amanda


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