Hoop Cheese

[Ole Joe Clark]

Both the wife and I have been under the weather for the last several days and our oldest Daughter has started checking on us quite often.

The other day she brought some "red" hoop cheese, then over the weekend she brings both "red" and "black" rind cheese. I buy the red on occasion, but most of the local stores don't carry hoop cheese.

What do you guys and gals like, and why? I just found out that either one goes good with coffee, but I still like the red rind best. I figure that if I can't find out something about hoop cheese on this forum, I probably don't need to know.

Have a blessed day,

Leon

 

[quikdraw67]

I've never heard of it.

Soft cheese? Like gouda?

 

[THE PILGRIM]

When I was Wee Laddie all the country stores had it.
They usually had a Wheel of cheese sitting on a rotary table cutter.
Served on Butcher paper with Crackers.
Hoop Cheese appears to be a Southern phenomena.
The Cheese Wheels usually sat on cutters like this one.

 

[sureshotbob]

Leon I don't have a clue !
So far though I have not had a cheese I didn't like .

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

It has been years since I saw the red and black 'Rind" cheese. I Thought the black was a too young Cheddar and the red was something milder. Dad liked the black and I liked the red.

Ivan

 

[lkabug]

It's a southern thing. Some call it Farmer's cheese.
Made by draining/pressing the whey from cottage cheese and placing the curd into a round mold.
Make it today, eat it tomorrow. Seldom aged, "gets green" fast. My foster dad loved it. He would spread it on cornbread like better. Me, I liked the cornbread.

 

[Nevada Ed]

Here in Reno we have the red & black Gouda's.....
I finished off a red, three days ago but it was a little dry and not too much flavor. I did not check it for a age date.

I prefer a cheese ball with crackers, if I can find one.......
and yes, I like my cheese's, even the stinky one's.

 

[Maddog 521]

Hoop Cheese - Cheese.com

 

[WardenRoss]

My Grandaddy sold it in his country store. All the butcher stores used to sell it around here.

You can buy it here...

York Valley Cheese Company Druck'''s 12 lb. Mini Wheel of Yellow Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese in Red Wax

 

[Rustyt1953]

When we find ourselves at Jungle Jim's International Market in Fairfield, Ohio we will pick up a chunk mainly to remind us of our parents who liked it so much.

I like it on crackers and Ruthie likes it with grapes and apples.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Drift warning!

I used to have to keep extra boxes of .016 and .018 unwound guitar strings in stock as that's what every deli, cheese shop and restaurant used in their Marie Antoinette cheese slicers.

 

[Catwrangler]

i took a year off from college and worked in an older warehouse district in Columbia, S.C. Right down the alley from work was a small framed wooden store that had probably been there 40 yrs., mostly sold soft drinks, fresh fruit, milk, cakes, cookies and slices of hoop cheese. The added bonus was a hotdog steamer. The lady who ran the store made her own hotdog chili freezing it in the old style wax carton milk quart containers. Every morning, I'd walk down for a pint of chocolate milk and some type of prepackaged cake, donuts, etc.
That frozen block of chili was slowly melting in the pot. 3 days a week lunch was two 35 cent chili dogs, xtra mustard and onions, a slice of hoop cheese an apple and a coke. This was in the early 70's.... Cut to 1983 I moved to Jacksonville, fl. for a sales job where I traveled the state... Tried hotdogs everywhere, but I have NEVER found a decent chili dog in this state to this day. Now I make own variation of a SC poolhall chili. Reserved occasionally as a time machine throwback to good times in my youth.