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Its Dairy month, how about cheese curds?

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I see Greg asked about pickle loaf, got me wondering about folks around the world eating cheese curds. Only reason I wonder is cause my nephew came for a visit with his mom, my wife's sister, from California, and she bought some cheese curds from a gas station, all gas stations have bags of them here in Wisconsin. Then she offered some to her son and he had to wonder what you do with them. Silly Californians! LOL
 
Never had them until I started dating my wife who is from a dairy farm in wisconsin. They sure are good, especially fresh ones.
 
Years ago, before the interstate highways, I drove through Wisconsin on my way to Minneapolis a number of time. I LOVED it. A great number of farms along the way were selling fresh milk and cheese. We always stopped along the way and bought cheese and milk. Cheese curds were among our favorite snacks while driving.

I haven't had any in years now, but I'd love to get ahold of some.

Tom in TN
 
if they don't squeak you just have cheese, still good as snack but not the same. The second way they are best is dipped and Deep Fried (Wisconsinites know this to be true, almost to point of law of nature).

Real cali. Dairy ads in Wisconsin is a outrage, if anyone cares.
 
You just have to know when they have the fresh from the vat on the shelf. I know when the big outfit up in Luxemburg(Stangleville), Wi has em. Can't recall when the one in Appleton (Little Chute) have theirs been a spell since I was out by them.
 
There used to be a cheese place in Ardmore, Tn. that made/sold various cheese and curds. Probably still there if you are close.
 
Ate my first cheese curds 2 weeks ago in Seattle at the Fish Market. They were making them there. Squeaked when you ate them. They were GOOD!! Wish I had some now. No cheese curds in Arkansas.
 
Mmmmmm-mmmm! None better than from Ellsworth, WI Coop Creamery!!

Established in 1910 and still making cheese with milk from WI and MN cows. And yeah, they SQUEAK... Cory S. is right-on with that little factoid. :)

You can get them sprinkled with dill weed too - and those are also very good. (I think there are other flavors as well, but plain or dilled are the favorites at our house.)
 
Still very much available here in northern NY--most any convenience store has fresh curd, though the price has certainly went up over the years, and to get the really fresh stuff you've got to know what days the plant makes it and plan your purchase accordingly. Used to have a local plant that made it, and even though they didn't have an "official" retail business at the plant, if you knew the owner and came to the back door, a few bucks in cash would send you on your way with a bag full of curds cut fresh out of the vat--warm, squeaky and absolutely delicious!
 
Curds are just cheese that hasn't been pressed in a mold . Fella come to my place and makes cheese for me, and the curds are yummy.
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Best curds are made in downtown Zittau Wi. Zittau consist of a cheese factory, one tavern and, two houses. Get there about nine in the morning and they are bagging them. Nothing better. Nephews girlfriend was here a while back. She's from N.D. she never heard of them. She just about spit it out when she bit into one and it squeaked but,she is now a cheese curd nut.
 
One place I worked at had Cajon flavor curds when that died down they changed the label to taco nobody caught on.
If you want different flavors try for grass fed with all the butterfat still in.
 
Pete,

Thanks for the tip. Ardmore is about 65 miles away, right on the Tennessee / Alabama. I haven't been down in that area for about a year, but I'll remember to scout that out the next time I'm down there.

Tom in TN
 
So, This was what Little Miss Muffet was eating?

little Miss Miffet
Sat on a Tuffet
Eating curds and whey
Along came a spider
and sat down beside her
said > What you got in that cup?
 
As Tim V said below, we have a local farmer who got sick of getting paid sub-production costs for his milk and started marketing cheese curd. I believe Thursday is production day, Tim?? Most of the cheese curd offered for sale at the kwik Marts and stores around here used to be manufactured by an Amish plant up north, but since this local fellow started up, he has pretty much corned the local market.
 
Haven't had any for a while come to think of it. Live about 25 miles SE of Monroe, wife used to work up there and when the kids were little she was always bringing them home, I even scored a chunk of Limburger now and then. We stopped in Monroe for a pizza last night, never gave the cheese curds a thought.
 
A small gas station in a small village in the TWP I work in has them. Other than that, I don't see them very often anywhere else, but I'm not usually looking for them either. I bought some from that little gas station this past winter, they were Ghost Pepper cheese curds, had a little bite to them, but not bad. I love hot stuff. I believe that would have been the first time I've had them.
 


Wife had an uncle who lived in Monroe.We went to visit him and he took us around.Got a Limburger and onion sandwichi in a small shop.I loved it.Went to cheese maker,bought a few different cheeses and I asked about curd.He said he only did curd for a large custom order and didn't really like doing then.
 
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