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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 327537" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I grew up with goats. And other animals - we grew everything we could, were as self-sufficient as it's possible to be, in the suburbs. Keeping animals really ties you down, you can never go away for the holidays. But family togetherness takes on a whole new meaning when everyone pitches in for the garden chores, the harvest, etc.</p><p></p><p>We had sheep, goats, the occasional pig, poddy calves (and later on when we moved further out of the city, in-calf heifers and finally the house cow) plus chickens as well as the vegetable beds.</p><p></p><p>And we never made cheese from any of the milk!</p><p></p><p>I am horrified at how wasteful people are these days. We just were at our church for a Christmas gathering. We were tidying up, someone came looking for the milk to put in her tea and one of the women said, "Oh, I threw it out. It's right on its expiry date."</p><p></p><p>There was nothing wrong with it, I had just had a cup of coffee using it and I am very sensitive to sour milk. But people these days are governed by misunderstandings over what expiry dates mean. Milk isn't necessarily perfectly fresh until the expiry date, it doesn't suddenly go totally "off" when the expiry date is reached. Milk is how it always was - you sniff before you use it because some idiot may hve left it ouf othe fridge in the sun. And to pour it down the sink because the precautionary date stamped on te side matches the date on the calendar, is a knee-jerk wasteful reaction.</p><p></p><p>I didn't bother saying anything to the woman - she's the over-sensitive type and there was no point making a fuss over milk now gone down the drain. </p><p></p><p>In years gone by, that is how people made cheese. If cows udders (or goats udders) came stamped with a use-by date, wenever would have the gift of goat cheese!</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 327537, member: 1991"] I grew up with goats. And other animals - we grew everything we could, were as self-sufficient as it's possible to be, in the suburbs. Keeping animals really ties you down, you can never go away for the holidays. But family togetherness takes on a whole new meaning when everyone pitches in for the garden chores, the harvest, etc. We had sheep, goats, the occasional pig, poddy calves (and later on when we moved further out of the city, in-calf heifers and finally the house cow) plus chickens as well as the vegetable beds. And we never made cheese from any of the milk! I am horrified at how wasteful people are these days. We just were at our church for a Christmas gathering. We were tidying up, someone came looking for the milk to put in her tea and one of the women said, "Oh, I threw it out. It's right on its expiry date." There was nothing wrong with it, I had just had a cup of coffee using it and I am very sensitive to sour milk. But people these days are governed by misunderstandings over what expiry dates mean. Milk isn't necessarily perfectly fresh until the expiry date, it doesn't suddenly go totally "off" when the expiry date is reached. Milk is how it always was - you sniff before you use it because some idiot may hve left it ouf othe fridge in the sun. And to pour it down the sink because the precautionary date stamped on te side matches the date on the calendar, is a knee-jerk wasteful reaction. I didn't bother saying anything to the woman - she's the over-sensitive type and there was no point making a fuss over milk now gone down the drain. In years gone by, that is how people made cheese. If cows udders (or goats udders) came stamped with a use-by date, wenever would have the gift of goat cheese! Marg [/QUOTE]
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