Comment on Why is cottage cheese the only cheese defined by some relationship to a building?

Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Roquefort is indeed a nice village in south-western France

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  • BastingChemina@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think it would be easier to list the French cheeses that are NOT named after a place.

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  • FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And Cheddar is a village in southern England

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    • HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      European cheese villages, unite!

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      • Penny7@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Image

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• OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I live in The Tower of BabyBelon

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  • Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    😌👌

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    • OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bad news about the tower, guys… :-/

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      • _g_be@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Wake me up when they hit the 2nd Tower

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• Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can live in Cheddar. Nice town, good hiking opportunities.

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  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Named after the process.

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  • Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But not in a cheddar!

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  • enthusiasticamoeba@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or Gouda. For extra fun while you’re there, pronounce Gouda the way it’s typically said in English and watch the Dutchies flinch as little parts of their soul leave their bodies.

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    • baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de [bot] ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      if you do it you legally have to buy one cheese wheel at the cheese auction there

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    • Agrivar@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wait, how is it supposed to be pronounced?

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      • enthusiasticamoeba@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        youtube.com/shorts/SInLePq2Ryo

        Here is how the Dutch say Gouda, with Van Gogh thrown in as a bonus.

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      • RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        GHOW-da is about the closest English approximation. The G sound is quite different in Dutch though.

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    • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Goo-da is almost a pokémon

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      • LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        m.bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/…/Goodra_(Pokémon)

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• ToastedRavioli@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was going to joke that Id prefer to live in a Jarlsberg, but when looking up Jarlsberg to spell it correctly I discovered its named for Jarlsberg Manor, which is in fact a building

  The more you know

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  • egrets@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Roquefort-sur-Soulzon would have taken its name from a fortress, too, so that counts.

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