Indulge in the world's only moose cheese — for $500 a pound

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/03/10/indulge-in-the-worlds-only-moose-cheese-for-500-a-pound.html

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Forget the moose-milkers, how on earth do they get enough milk to make it possible to sell these things for like two bucks a pop?

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Why is the image featuring a bull moose if this is an article about milking them?

I sure as hell hope that nobody is attempting to milk a bull moose.

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nerdfession: when Han Solo was aghast that someone had added a compressor on the hyperdrive of the Millennium Falcon he shouted: “Some moof-milker put a compressor on the ignition line!” The first i heard that line i was sure he had said “moose milker”. How stupid! as it was clearly “moof

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Well, I know someone with some tips on the subject…

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They make them brave in Alaska:

We collected semen from five yearling bulls via electro-ejaculation

Two samples were collected from each bull weekly for a period
of three weeks.

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I’ve heard that many moose milkers got their start as moose goosers.

“I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me?”

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You think that’s tricky? Where do they get birds milk from?


[Some birds do actually produce ‘milk’, it is thankfully not used in this sweet]

A moose once bit my sister.

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Was she trying to milk it?

Bracket that with 2 5-syllable lines and you’ve got a moose of a haiku!

i misread the headline as MOUSE cheese…
My first thought was: ewww!
My second thought was: $500 a pound sounds cheap … gonna have to milk a lot of mice to make a pound of cheese…

I prefer a saga, obvs.

In the ship-garden walked my sister lonely
When through the wide wood walls came the mighty moose, Lord of Antlers,
Bit my sister with yellow gnashings.

and so on for 300 stanzas.

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Perhaps a mouse would eat moose cheese or maybe they would prefer moose mousse?

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