h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: Cheddar Cheese - A837632
Author: Natalie - U190181


Natalie is too shy to do this herself so she has asked me to submit this on her behalf. Being the gentleman that I am I agreed.

It is a great entry that does exactly what it says on the tin. Enjoy

Fantastic.

Blessed are the Cheese-researchers.

Dr Trout (pseudo cheese-monger)

Great entry! No reason to be shy! I think we just have to wait the customary 7 days...

Tango

... and associated workers in the dairy industry.




(and I don't even like cheese.)

Love the article natile, no need to be shy at all. just one small point it might look a bit prettier if you put and around the paragraphs stop it looking all bunched up see..

And don't leave a space before the footnotes - on my screen one of them got shunted onto the next line, which looks very weird. Can we have temperatures in Centigrade for us bairns, please?

Brilliant article. The only remaining question is how a bucket of milk left in a cave got heated, had stuff added to it, got ground up and then heated again.

An entry on cheese that's not by Dr Trout?

*Faints* ::THUD::

This is a good entry, but it needs a bit of tidying up.

You gives weights in lb and cwt. Would it be too much trouble to provide the equivalent in kg as well? And temperatures in Celsius?

You say "which is competitive with Netto". I have absolutley no idea what this means, so perhaps an explanation might be in order.

There are fair number of typos and places where it doesn't quite flow right. I know you won't mind me listing them all.

cheddar cheese, as expressed by --> cheddar cheese is here expressed by
The distinct flavour --> The distinctive flavour
son,. --> son,
as buying bought --> as having bought
that weighted 11 --> that weighed 11
it's usually mature between --> it's usually matured between
Cheddar is ranges from --> Cheddar ranges from
yellow-orangey --> yellowy-orange

Move the phrase in brackets (at a farthing a pound...) to after the word 'substance'.

Keep at it though this smells a lot like an edited entry to be...

Yep, this is surely en route to the Edited Guide.

As has already been noted, the layout could be improved, beginning with spacing after all the headers. Also, this key sentence: 'According to local legend, creation of the original bit of cheddar was a happy accident, following the abandonment of a pail of milk (for safety, apparently; there must have been rampant milk-thieves stalking Somerset in those days) in the Cheddar Gorge caves, as you do.' is a bit convoluted and might usefully be simplified.

But that's the sort of thing we sub-editors can deal with very easily.

"The Wurzels (a sort of Radiohead for the '70s),"

Hi Natalie, nice article (particularly liked the new word, 'pretendy'. Cheddar cheese is also stored at Wookie Hole, just down the road. The crew of 'Harry Potter' filmed some of the two-headed dog scenes down there, though for all you could see of it they would have been better off in a dark studio. Anyway, the point being that cheese is stored in caves because they're very thermally stable - they maintain a reasonably constant temperature in summer and winter. Which is why I found the explanation of the 'accidental discovery' at odds with the final recipe. Do you think someone was taking the p*ss? Or more to the point, leaving it?

Excellent article on this most cheesiest of cheeses!

Question: why is the supermarket stuff colored orange?

How dare you compare the Wurzels to Radiohead?

That talentless bunch of wasters are nothing compared to the master of Scrumpy'n'Western.

*unsubscribes in disgust*

Nice Entry, by the way.

B

Is Natalie too shy to make the changes we have suggested? Or even to comment on why she doesn't think she'll make those changes?

Well she hasn't left the building ... she's an italic apparently!

Maybe she's just letting it mature.

No need to be shy Natalie. We don't bite... hard.

Thetanthrope: are you sure you're not buying Wensleydale?

B

Frogbit says:

"the point being that cheese is stored in caves because they're very thermally stable - they maintain a reasonably constant temperature in summer and winter."

How good it is too here the voice of h2g2's own speleological specialist enlightening us on the cheese-maturing qualities of the West Country cave!