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Mammoth Cheese

Michigan State University, East Lansing

ABSTRACT

For some years, the Historian of the American Dairy Science Association has been fascinated by stories on big or mammoth cheese and has made a collection of some of them. Thinking perhaps that they should be documented for the enlightenment and possible delight of a newer generation, the review herein was written.

Stories on mammoth cheese excite the imagination. Often, extravagant claims not supported by facts are made. These stories are excusable because memory lapses, few records are available, and the cheese at hand truly is a monster. As such, bigger-than-standard cheese arrests attention. All these stories are most interesting, for they not only portray the romance surrounding early cheese making but stir the imagination concerning the labor and raw products involved in creating a stable form of milk which keeps without refrigeration.

Frequently, a distinguished personality in any industry, particularly in the various branches of the dairy industry, is referred to in slang terms as the big cheese.