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(AP) Interesting Little known fact of the day: Wisconsin produces 95% of the country's ginseng. Which is probably great with cheese   (hosted.ap.org) divider line 35
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Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener [TotalFark]
2009-10-28 07:05:28 PM
You cheddar believe it.
 
jonasborg
2009-10-28 07:15:27 PM
It's also highly regulated
 
Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener [TotalFark]
2009-10-28 07:21:30 PM
jonasborg: It's also highly regulated

Of course.

We're human. We're not muensters.
 
IronTom [TotalFark]
2009-10-28 07:24:34 PM
And it is good ginseng. I like to get their red ginseng roots, medium to large, and cut it into slices with chicken-bone shears or a vise grip. The slices are about 3-4 mm wide. They last about 1 hour, and are really good.
 
IronTom [TotalFark]
2009-10-28 07:25:32 PM
about 1 cm diameter, and 4 mm thick

Edam you'd like it
 
Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener [TotalFark]
2009-10-28 07:29:11 PM
IronTom: And it is gouda ginseng.
 
Omnivorous
2009-10-28 07:53:57 PM
The New Yorker's run a bunch of stories about it, including the fact that the Wisconsin ginseng industry has people in different cities (especially New York) looking for counterfeit ginseng from China that they're trying to pass off as Wisconsin ginseng.
 
VoiceOfReason499
2009-10-28 07:56:59 PM
I think subby meant grate with cheese.
 
Arkanaut
2009-10-28 07:58:09 PM
And beer. Don't forget beer.

/I'm sure Wisconsinites won't.
 
Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener [TotalFark]
2009-10-28 08:03:32 PM
VoiceOfReason499: I think subby meant grate with cheese.

And I'm sure he's feeling very bleu about his mistake.
 
holiday_inn_in_cambodia
2009-10-28 08:09:50 PM
Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: VoiceOfReason499: I think subby meant grate with cheese.

And I'm sure he's feeling very bleu about his mistake.

And I think he's... uh... Venezuelan Beaver Cheese... something.
 
Harry_Seldon
2009-10-28 08:23:46 PM
Ginseng? Is that stuff still around?
 
Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener [TotalFark]
2009-10-28 08:34:56 PM
holiday_inn_in_cambodia: And I think he's... uh... Venezuelan Beaver Cheese... something.

Judges?

(long pause)

*DING!*

We'll accept it!

We also would have accepted "It's gonna brie what it's gonna brie."
 
Klippoklondike [TotalFark]
2009-10-28 08:34:59 PM
WENDSLEYDALE
 
holiday_inn_in_cambodia
2009-10-28 08:40:00 PM
Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: holiday_inn_in_cambodia: And I think he's... uh... Venezuelan Beaver Cheese... something.

Judges?

(long pause)

*DING!*

We'll accept it!

We also would have accepted "It's gonna brie what it's gonna brie."

Thank you for not nitpecoring
 
McManus_brothers [TotalFark]
2009-10-28 08:44:04 PM
This sounds like an Onion article for some reason.

Also, w00t Wisconsin! Another #1 for the great state!
 
Retractable Weeners
2009-10-28 08:49:43 PM
The old farmers there won't really plant it. They say once ginseng is grown in a field you can't ever plant anything else there.
 
Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener [TotalFark]
2009-10-28 08:50:41 PM
holiday_inn_in_cambodia: Thank you for not nitpecoring

Just in queso things go wrong, don't thank me yet.
 
holiday_inn_in_cambodia
2009-10-28 08:59:31 PM
Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: holiday_inn_in_cambodia: Thank you for not nitpecoring

Just in queso things go wrong, don't thank me yet.

whatever you say, jack... I was just trying to thank you
 
Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener [TotalFark]
2009-10-28 09:02:32 PM
holiday_inn_in_cambodia: whatever you say, jack... I was just trying to thank you

No hostility in this thread!

I camembert it!!!
 
Seth'n'Spectrum
2009-10-28 09:05:37 PM
Funfact: American health food stores advertise Chinese ginseng, while Chinese pharmacy's hawk American ginseng. Naturally, its all ultimately Siberian.
 
Clarence Potter
2009-10-28 09:06:14 PM
Retractable Weeners: The old farmers there won't really plant it. They say once ginseng is grown in a field you can't ever plant anything else there.

From the link below, "It may take 10 years to break even." Sounds like a significant investment.

http://corn.agronomy.wisc.edu/Crops/Ginseng.aspx
 
holiday_inn_in_cambodia
2009-10-28 09:15:08 PM
Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: holiday_inn_in_cambodia: whatever you say, jack... I was just trying to thank you

No hostility in this thread!

I camembert it!!!

Don't worry, I'm sure one day we'll be able to look back on this and share a havarti laugh
 
mfaby
2009-10-28 09:16:13 PM
It is...

Arkanaut 2009-10-28 07:58:09 PM
And beer. Don't forget beer.

/I'm sure Wisconsinites won't.

...and we don't.

Especially in Fon Du Lac, Wisc.
 
thalidomide new and improved
2009-10-28 09:36:27 PM
I a Gruyère could be a flavor connection between cheese and ginseng, but I camembert to think it would be even remotely worth exploring. But screw it, me and the boys, velveeta coupla bites of each and find out.

/Cheez whiz
 
thalidomide new and improved
2009-10-28 09:37:37 PM
nacho ordinary combination, for sure.
 
browser_snake
2009-10-28 09:50:02 PM
Wisconsin ginseng has supplanted Korean Panax ginseng as the best quality in the world.
 
Fano
2009-10-28 10:09:36 PM
Omnivorous: The New Yorker's run a bunch of stories about it, including the fact that the Wisconsin ginseng industry has people in different cities (especially New York) looking for counterfeit ginseng from China that they're trying to pass off as Wisconsin ginseng.

I find it interesting that chinese herbalists rate Wisconsin ginseng so highly.
 
Weigard
2009-10-28 10:36:41 PM
It's not, but it's not like that's ever stopped them before.
 
Chagrin
2009-10-28 10:57:48 PM
Harry_Seldon: Ginseng? Is that stuff still around?

At $60/lb domesticated ginseng or $300/lb wild ginseng, yeah.
 
tukatz [TotalFark]
2009-10-28 11:11:06 PM
Fano: Omnivorous: The New Yorker's run a bunch of stories about it, including the fact that the Wisconsin ginseng industry has people in different cities (especially New York) looking for counterfeit ginseng from China that they're trying to pass off as Wisconsin ginseng.

I find it interesting that chinese herbalists rate Wisconsin ginseng so highly.



Strangely, the transplanted Hmong groups in Wisconsin are hired to work on the Ginseng "farms". Perhaps they have some experience growing ginseng.... besides the fact they are hired as cheap labor?

Of course, we ship it to China and they repackage it in lead paint covered boxes and put those in asbestos-lined shipping crates to send back to us.
 
tweekster
2009-10-29 12:48:40 AM
mfaby: It is...

Arkanaut 2009-10-28 07:58:09 PM
And beer. Don't forget beer.

/I'm sure Wisconsinites won't.

...and we don't.

Especially in Fon Du Lac, Wisc.

I thought that was meth.
 
Doctor Jan Itor
2009-10-29 05:35:50 AM
No whey!!

/Notyour cheese
 
Ball of Confusion
2009-10-29 10:14:00 AM
Somehow visiting the MARS GINSENG CASTLE just doesn't have the same ring to it.

/enjoys Sprecher Dark when available at Road America
 
Big 900
2009-10-29 04:53:50 PM
We also grow over 50% of the world's cranberries; more than all of the New England States combined.

/We're not just beer and cheese up here
 
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