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Article: The knights of cheddar.(Tillamook County Creamery Association)
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- Dairy Foods
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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TILLAMOOK, Ore. -- One of Tillamook Cheese's most popular marketing campaigns, vaguely reminiscent of a Monty Python skit, featured a band of Swiss knights out to steal the cheese from Tillamook. "Cheese well worth stealing" went the tagline.
Well, if you ask anyone in the organization why Tillamook cheese is worth stealing they'll tell you about the great fresh milk, a cheesemaking process that takes no shortcuts and a workforce that pays close attention to detail.
If you ask anyone familiar with Tillamook what makes the organization so special you will likely hear some parallels--it starts with the 142 farm families that make up the cooperative and ...