# I have nine year old cheddar. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 30, 2005, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-nine-year-old-cheddar/319190 "2005-08-30T01:36:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-nine-year-old-cheddar/319190/41 "2005-08-30T18:24:24Z")
This Florida boy has been to the Mars Cheese Castle in Kenosha, and it was awesome, but I didn’t try any aged cheddar. Still, everything I got was probably the best cheese I ever had. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-nine-year-old-cheddar/319190/42 "2005-08-30T18:48:35Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > If it does, I hope you relabel everything properly to avoid confusion. I have a friend who stays up all night on New Year’s just to cross out all the numbers on the aged liquor bottles and correct them (10 year old scotch becomes 11). > > He’s an accuracy fanatic. :eek: Accuracy fanatic, perhaps; liquor aficionado, not really. I wonder if your friend is aware that a scotch labeled ten years old is labeled such because it spent ten years aging in a cask, and not in a bottle. The time a scotch spends in a bottle is rather irrelevant to its age. If you bought a “ten year old” scotch and left it in your liquor cabinet for fifty years, it’s still a ten year old scotch. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-nine-year-old-cheddar/319190/43 "2005-08-30T19:34:29Z")
I have a six year old, unopened brick of Velvetta in my fridge, left by some visiting relative who bought it on sale. Maybe I’ll auction it on E-Bay. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-nine-year-old-cheddar/319190/44 "2005-08-30T19:35:30Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > Hm. Between this thread and another one in the recent past, I’m pretty curious about aged cheddar and I’m nowhere near Wisconsin although Tillamook, Oregon is about an hour north of here. > > I might have to drive up there in the next couple weeks to see if they have any. Even if they don’t, a drive along the coast would be nice. Tillamook makes some pretty good cheese. The co-op has a Web page [here](http://www.tillamookcheese.com/index.html). ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-nine-year-old-cheddar/319190/45 "2005-08-30T20:09:19Z")
Y’all can all envy me. I’ve been to the town of Cheddar in England. _The cheese castle’s way too tacky for words, though._ So was Cheddar. You could almost call it … cheesy. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-nine-year-old-cheddar/319190/46 "2005-08-30T20:43:22Z")
And here I was celebrating that I found a local shop that carries Caerphilly, Champignon and other tasty cheeses. That kinda takes the wind outta my sail. ---
**Author:** ![madcossack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@madcossack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madcossack)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-nine-year-old-cheddar/319190/47 "2005-08-30T20:48:54Z")
> [@Barrels](#): > > Wisconsinite checking in here- > > go to [www.cheesers.com](http://www.cheesers.com) you can order Carr Valley cheese from Peg and Marie there. They ship. Really good cheese. And they have the freshest curd I have ever had and fresh lefsa every Thursday. > > Tell them Carrie from the paper sent you, they will take good care of you. > > I like me cheese. > > Barrels Ooooh…lefsa 🙂 That reminds me to get that recipre from my Gramma nxt time I call her. One of the things I miss the most about living out there. ---
**Author:** ![Future\_days](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cab0a1/32.png) [@Future\_days](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Future_days)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-nine-year-old-cheddar/319190/48 "2005-08-30T20:50:28Z")
I’m relieved to see this thread is not about someone who has just checked under their foreskin for the first time in 9 years. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-nine-year-old-cheddar/319190/49 "2005-08-30T22:17:27Z")
UHHHH… CHEEEESE! Oh how I miss Cabot Vermont! ---
**Author:** ![Alpine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpine/32/17813_2.png) [@Alpine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpine)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-nine-year-old-cheddar/319190/50 "2005-08-31T00:35:27Z")
I must admit that I’ve been much more of a fan of New York or Vermont (mmm, Cabot) sharp cheddar than of Wisconsin, but I’m thinkin’ now I just haven’t had the good stuff! The New York seems to have a tang that the Vermont doesn’t, but isn’t as smooth. I like the Tillamook, too, but it’s not sharp enough. Hell, living where I do, I have to survive on Cracker Barrell New York Extra Sharp. Not terrible, but nothing like the “counter cheddar” (lives on the countertop) at the smokehouse near my parents’ place in upstate NY. Still, that “aged Velveeta” might be a new taste sensation. 😉 Only chocolate might be harder to give up than (good) cheese… My sympathies to those who can’t have it. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-nine-year-old-cheddar/319190/51 "2005-08-31T00:45:25Z")
> [@Alpine](#): > > Only chocolate might be harder to give up than (good) cheese… My sympathies to those who can’t have it. Interestingly enough, both are [disrecommended](http://deoxy.org/maoidiet.htm) for those taking MAOIs (a family of antidepressives) because they contain tyramine (an amino acid that causes dangerous reactions when combined with the medications). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-nine-year-old-cheddar/319190.md?page=2)