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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: Cheese and Chinese food
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Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 14:47:00 EDT
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In article <804@brl-tgr.ARPA> wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) writes:

>It has occurred to me that I have no recollection of ever seeing cheese
>used as an ingredient in any Chinese or other Oriental cookery recipes.

I once went to an outdoor concert held in a field next to a farm.
The cute horsies would stick their heads over the fence and beg for food.
My friend had been raised in the city and had no idea what horses liked,
so she just fed it a little bit of everything we had. The horse liked
the apples fine. Then she gave it some cheese. The horse chewed it for
a little bit and then started throwing up into her hand.

That's my attitude toward cheese. And my mother's and my father's, etc.
"If cheese goes bad, how can you tell?" We just think it tastes bad.
I don't think lactose intolerance enters into it. If you want historical
reasons, one might be that cows are expensive to keep. Why feed a cow
to get milk/cheese when you can eat the grain/rice yourself?
-- 
 The overseas Chinese are the Jews of Asia.

 Phil Ngai (408) 749-5720
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