Sandy Wood
Brain Game: Behold, the Power of Cheese
by Sandy Wood - January 16, 2009 - 7:30 AM

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Mmmmm, cheese. I like all types, from $40-an-ounce import cheeses all the way down to Velveeta. I recently saw an episode of Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives in which an restaurant’s owner was shown making his own mozzarella cheese. But at least he made it forward.

What type of cheese is made backwards?

Here is the ANSWER.

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Comments (11)

  1. :GROAN!!:

    Good one though. Here I am, thinking of the process… argh.

    And thumbs up on Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives. Guy ended up at a place a few miles from my house that I’d be past but never in to. Cool show.

    posted by Josh on 1-16-2009 at 9:35 am

  2. Kara and I love the show too. Unfortunately, we usually record it and watch it at 2 in the morning. So we sit there and drool while all this hot, wonderful food being made. Then, starving, I go to the fridge to find nothing but an old box of baking soda and a cloudy jar of olives.

    posted by Sandy Wood on 1-16-2009 at 10:01 am

  3. Went through my mental files on cheesemaking (sparse) for a moment or two, then considered the source of the question and, like Josh, groaned.

    Love the Brain Games, Sandy. Often the best part of my workday.

    posted by Betsy on 1-16-2009 at 11:46 am

  4. Kill the pun! Why are you PUNishing us? One groaner deserves another.

    posted by Sara on 1-16-2009 at 11:52 am

  5. Thanks so much, Betsy. It means the world to hear that.

    posted by Sandy Wood on 1-16-2009 at 12:51 pm

  6. I never would have gotten it if it weren’t for Monty Python’s “Cheese Shop” sketch. It comes after Gouda.

    posted by Dinosaur on 1-16-2009 at 1:28 pm

  7. I actually got this one right!!!

    posted by dkno on 1-16-2009 at 2:31 pm

  8. lol….good one!
    Mtw

    posted by MiketheWaiter on 1-16-2009 at 5:12 pm

  9. Yes, Impossible Quiz-style thinking pays off!

    posted by Denise on 1-16-2009 at 6:08 pm

  10. LoL… good one, Sandy! My guess was eseehc, so I was moving along the right lines. :-)

    posted by Ophelia on 1-16-2009 at 6:15 pm

  11. Ive read that Edam cheese was once used in battle. They ran out of cannonballs. According to that source there were a couple of fatalities and a broken mast before the cheese receiving ship retreated.

    posted by Steve on 1-16-2009 at 8:48 pm

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