SC - Toys for Tots and other comments

[BalthazarBlack@aol.com]

In a message dated 8/5/00 10:59:56 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
jenne at tulgey.browser.net writes:

> I realize that any cheese made in America is essentially not period,
>  especially any 'mass produced cheese' because the non-period cows are
>  eating a non-period diet, and with cheese the breed of cow and the diet
>  REALLY makes a difference...)

Documentation, please?  How do we know that American Cheeses (and I am NOT 
talking about the pale orange plastic sheets you get in the grocery) would 
not be close to period cheeses?  There are some stellar "gourmet" cheeses 
produced here in the United States, many varieties of which were available in 
the middle ages.  As to the "non-period diet" comment.... what did they feed 
cows in the middle ages that we don't feed them today?  This is a serious 
question, by the way.  Perhaps one of the real experts out there could answer 
this?

Balthazar of Blackmoor

In the mornin' I go walking, 'cause it helps the hurtin' soften.  I've seen a 
lot of places, 'cause I miss her very often.