We wouldn't have to eat Kraft dinners

[venta]

Honsetly, the things you learn on Wikipedia.

Today, I looked at the page about Brie, to see if a colleague who claimed that Brie originated from south west England was correct. (It seems he wasn't. But Tesco's Somerset Brie, which was in my sandwiches today and started the whole conversation, is extremely nice.)

Talking about Brie, Wikipedia says:

"If left to mature for longer... the cheese becomes stronger in flavour and taste, the pâté drier and darker, and the rind also darker and crumbly, and is called Brie Noir (Fr: Black Brie). Around the Île-de-France, where Brie is made, people enjoy soaking this in Café au lait and eating it for breakfast."

Now, if we leave aside the problem that anyone who dissolves cheese in coffee for breakfast is clearly insane, what do they mean by "pâté"? I followed the link, and ended up on the page about ordinary meat-product pâté.

To try and locate what I wanted, I searched that page for "cheese", and in the See Also section found a link to the page about Head cheese.

At that point I said "Ewww!" a lot. Then I followed the link. I still don't know which bit of Brie is the "pâté", though.

Turns out "head cheese" is what Americans call brawn. Ewww.

Comments

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

The squishy bit. P\^ate like paste.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

That's what I was going to suggest.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Oh. Yes. It seems you're right.

From the way that sentence was written, I'd assumed the cheese, pate, and rind to be three distinct entities (which they aren't). That's why I was confused.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

http://wisconsindairyartisan.org/definitions.html

[ulfilias.livejournal.com]

I knew the head cheese bit....Also there is certainly a coffee cheese. I recall a friend from Sweeden telling me about it !

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

A detailed description of making head cheese turns up in Little House In The Big Woods - a good way to gross out unsuspecting under-eights!

[rabbit1080.livejournal.com]

"head cheese"??
hmm, sounds like "head crabs" in half-life full-life consequences"

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

Brawn is delicious :-)

But calling it Head Cheese just brings to mind the most disturbing moment in the first two seasons of The Mighty Boosh.