They got cheese
Tillamook County Oregon. We visited the factory viewing area. A hall with windows on each side. The left side provided a viewing of large stainless steel cheese processing containers. On the right side the factory workers in grey shirts, head coverings and face masks processed large blocks of orange colored cheese. As the cheese blocks rolled down the line, they were cut into smaller blocks and weight checked before packaging. The outer area had a large plastic cow. A milking machine was available for practice fitting on the cow, including real suction.
OMG!!! Like when I hit the Harrod's food court. It's far more like a food orgasm, an endless selection of smoked fish, and seafood of
all kinds, and real legs of animals, standing on display, and you can walk out with paper thin slices of said leg(s). Oddly looking like that infamous leg lamp, so gaudy and odd to see for an American. You just don't see that, and I was amazed at seeing it all over Italy and Spain too.
But I turned a corner and walked right into -- constipation...
An entire mind numbingly huge collection of FROMAGE!!! Such a horrific collection of fromage from all over the world. Yellow, white, blue, green, dry, slimy, sweet, bitter, solid, gelatinous, fragrant, odoriferous, revolting???. So much cheese! Wallace and Gromit just HINT at the many kinds of cheeses in the UK. It seems that every small dairy has their own special cheese, and every small town and village has their own selections of locally produced cheese. And cheese in quantities that I never knew existed! 'Wheels' of cheese larger than a manhole cover, and over a foot thick. Quantities of cheese that have to be wheeled out on industrial, no nonsense, carts that could have help excavator engines... I literally stopped walking. I think a squealed... Yes, the seafood section took a bit of time to get through (They offer samples!!!), but the cheese was just, nothing short of... Is there a word BIGGER than galactic? Universe? Local group? Beyond critical mass? My bowels tightened looking at the many opportunities to never do a #2 ever again...
Yeah, I avoided 'complications', and passed on the vast majority of the fromage.
But I was tickled that the local grocery started carrying Tillamook cheeses. Who hasn't heard of that cheese. And it's not those wimpy grated, or shredded cheese, this is wide and long ribbons of goodness. And it's all good. BTW: Cheese is what is keeping me from going total 'V'. Give up cheese? You have to be insane!!!