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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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At least four cheese factories operating within Steele County produced more than 150,000 pounds annually; more than any other county in the state.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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Workers home from the factories and fields were served savory or meat dishes, bread and cheese, and homemade cake or pie at the dining table.
Meat-works were an early industry in Oakey, and Cheese and Butter Factories dotted the Downs in the first part of the century, gradually thinning with improvements in refrigeration, roads and transportation.
Fine local cheeses can be sampled and purchased at the Barry Bay Cheese Factory at the foot of the hill.
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Sveta Romanova,
Intelligence Officer
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The first 20 years in the 20th century saw 95 butter and 21 cheese factories change to 26 butter and 116 cheese factories.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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It is coincidental that centuries after the Amish forefathers left their native Switzerland, and in a land thousands of miles distant, their descendants are now producing milk for Swiss Cheese factories operated by other Swiss Natives and their descendants.
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Jake Farley,
Truck Driver
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Today, there are probably fewer than fifty immense factories producing most of the cheese in America, all absolutely dependent on long-haul trucking based on cheap diesel fuel.
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Chrissie Tanner,
Homemaker and Mom
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They opened their first cheese store in 1974 in southern Wisconsin where the cheese factories are right "in their own backyard.
No visit is complete without a tour of The Tillamook Cheese factory showing how the cheese is made and viewing the actual process taking place.
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Astrid Schuhmann,
Backpacker
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You can visit cheese factories, museums and of course, restaurants specialising in the traditional Dutch cuisine, but the most important souvenir from either of these towns could well be a 10kg.
Some villages have their own cheese factories where farmers can sell or trade their milk.
Go south until you reach Tillamook and visit the two cheese factories that this dairyland is famous for.
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