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May 20th, 2015 at 3:13pm
 
I sometimes think that the cheese you get these days isn't a patch on what used to be available. I'm talking here about your common or garden cheddar, not your unpasteurised or esoteric varieties.

Give me some Kameruka or ABC on my cheese roll. Anybody remember these? From the days when we had dairy co-operatives?
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Reply #1 - May 21st, 2015 at 4:10pm
 
I understand George St Sydney is about to be ripped up for "light rail".
When I was a kid George St Had "light rail", only it was called "trams". Am I the only one alive who remembers trams?
I used to catch one from Mosman into the city to go to school. They ran everywhere in those days: from the city to the eastern suburbs; from the city to the north shore, as far as The Spit, Taronga Zoo, Chatswood.
Geez we're getting modern having "light rail" put in.

PS I specially remember with affection what was known as "the toast rack", a version which was open on both sides with a running board right along the length - ideal for fare evasion.
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Reply #2 - May 21st, 2015 at 5:14pm
 
bogarde73 wrote on May 20th, 2015 at 3:13pm:
I sometimes think that the cheese you get these days isn't a patch on what used to be available. I'm talking here about your common or garden cheddar, not your unpasteurised or esoteric varieties.

Give me some Kameruka or ABC on my cheese roll. Anybody remember these? From the days when we had dairy co-operatives?


Kameruka is about three klicks from here... nice cheese... now it's all Bega Cheese....

I like black person..... let's see if the grinch in spell checking chops that up...

Yup - you can't even call a spade a spade any more by discussing real C00N cheese...

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Reply #3 - May 21st, 2015 at 5:21pm
 
what about cheese that had the rind still on it???... and would not be caught dead being wrapped in plastic...

we have sadly lost our sense of taste..

if we hadnt we wouldnt buy the stuff they put on the shelves today...
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Reply #4 - May 21st, 2015 at 5:30pm
 
my pet whinge too is bacon....where has all the flavour gone....long time no see...taste or smell... Cry
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Reply #5 - May 21st, 2015 at 8:42pm
 
My aunt's father used to be one of the bosses at Robertson Cheese, and
we got to go for more than one tour of the factory as kids.

And it's still my favourite cheese, even tho you can't get it any more.

Nothing else has come close (although Bega's 'Old Bitey' isn't too bad).
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Reply #6 - May 21st, 2015 at 8:54pm
 
cods wrote on May 21st, 2015 at 5:21pm:
what about cheese that had the rind still on it???... and would not be caught dead being wrapped in plastic...

we have sadly lost our sense of taste..

if we hadnt we wouldnt buy the stuff they put on the shelves today...


My dad, in the Fire Brigade, once brought home a huge round of cheese after a factory fire... the owner was so grateful he gave them all cheese....

Men were men then... he went into a gas-filled cargo hold on a refrigeration ship to rescue two crew, and his gear was faulty and he was gassed himself... the other guy got a medal - he got a hospital bed... the crew members didn't make it...
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Reply #7 - May 21st, 2015 at 8:56pm
 
Kat wrote on May 21st, 2015 at 8:42pm:
My aunt's father used to be one of the bosses at Robertson Cheese, and
we got to go for more than one tour of the factory as kids.

And it's still my favourite cheese, even tho you can't get it any more.

Nothing else has come close (although Bega's 'Old Bitey' isn't too bad).


Slip down to the Bega cheese factory - they've got a display of historical machinery and stuff - and you can get tastes of all the cheeses.... kids come in for lunch... nobody minds...
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Reply #8 - May 21st, 2015 at 9:19pm
 
bogarde73 wrote on May 21st, 2015 at 4:10pm:
I understand George St Sydney is about to be ripped up for "light rail".
When I was a kid George St Had "light rail", only it was called "trams". Am I the only one alive who remembers trams?
I used to catch one from Mosman into the city to go to school. They ran everywhere in those days: from the city to the eastern suburbs; from the city to the north shore, as far as The Spit, Taronga Zoo, Chatswood.
Geez we're getting modern having "light rail" put in.

PS I specially remember with affection what was known as "the toast rack", a version which was open on both sides with a running board right along the length - ideal for fare evasion.


For kicks we used to put pennies on the tram tracks to see them get flattened out like chewing gum. It was before video games.

Sydney's tram network was one of the best in the world. Tearing them up was a scam where by the manufacturers of diesel buses (politicians being the shareholders) got hefty government contracts.

NSW was one of the crookest places outside of Chicago. Bodies floating in the lakes, razor killings, police running prostitution. I remember a bloke getting cut down with an Owen gun from a passing car in Randwick.

PS Respectability was worshipped in those days, so they used to try to hush up the uglier side of Sydney.
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Reply #9 - May 21st, 2015 at 10:17pm
 
Tuppeny Bungers - they just don't make kid's weapons like that any more!!  Fit neatly into the mouth of a milk bottle, making a great grenade... and those vicious bull ants, the real bitey ones, had no chance of getting past one of those....

The old bloke across the road had a horse that he rode to town... I think he'd been in the Light Horse or something....

At night, regular as clockwork around 11pm you could hear a coal train making its way up the slope heavily laden..... CHOOF........CHOOOF.....CHOOF......CHOOOOF......then it would reach the top and gasp in relief and go.. choof..ke.. choof....ke..choof...ke....  choof..choof choof choof...  We used to put pennies on the rails and sometime hop a ride.... during the afternoons we wagged school...
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Reply #10 - May 21st, 2015 at 11:17pm
 
I remember shopping at Coles and Woolies during the very early 1980's.

You were lucky to have 4 different types of cheeses.

Fruit and vegetables were strictly seasonal with a fraction of those available now being available then.

The deli sections were tiny compared to now and the range of tinned and jar items were way less than what we have been used to for a decade or two.

Rose tinted glasses and an overactive nostalgia gland.
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Reply #11 - May 22nd, 2015 at 10:54am
 
Kat wrote on May 21st, 2015 at 8:42pm:
My aunt's father used to be one of the bosses at Robertson Cheese, and
we got to go for more than one tour of the factory as kids.

And it's still my favourite cheese, even tho you can't get it any more.

Nothing else has come close (although Bega's 'Old Bitey' isn't too bad).


Ah yes Robertson cheese. I liked that too.
The old cheese factory has had a number of reincarnations since those days.
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Reply #12 - May 22nd, 2015 at 11:03am
 
Dutch Maasdam cheese from Woolies is all I crave for nowadays.

And King Island Dairy Bass Strait Blue, a Danish style blue vein cheese.

And the rest.

So many good tasty cheeses to delight the palate.

Polish twaróg cheese sprinkled lightly with sugar used to be a favourite of ours as a stand-alone dessert when I was a boy. I haven't seen it anywhere since I arrived in Australia.

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Reply #13 - May 22nd, 2015 at 11:09am
 
Don't want to know what the rapacious Woolies is flogging now Herb . . interested in what once was.

Do you want to get me started on a rant about Woolies/Wesfarmers/RioTinto/BHP et al?
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Reply #14 - May 22nd, 2015 at 11:12am
 
bogarde73 wrote on May 22nd, 2015 at 11:09am:
Don't want to know what the rapacious Woolies is flogging now Herb . . interested in what once was.

Do you want to get me started on a rant about Woolies/Wesfarmers/RioTinto/BHP et al?


I've redeemed myself by mentioning 'twaróg' which used to be delivered to us from out the back of a van by a little Polish fellow in the '50s.  Smiley

I can go back further if you want me to.

In the mid-50's I used to carry a little bottle around with me with cream in it that I would occasionally give a good shaking ... and after awhile the cream would turn into ...
waaaaaaaaait for it
..... cheese!  Smiley

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