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Does that cheese get throw out of Dutch windows on a regular basis ?

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Here I found the verdict from the German court https://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdb.mietgerichtstag.de%2Ftl_files%2FDateien%2FMietgerichtstage%2F2005%2Fpfeifer.pdf&date=2013-03-31 -- Of course, the entire verdict is written in the German language. The link doesn't work with Google Translate, so if you don't speak German you'll have to copy and past this paragraph by paragraph (it's too long to an entire translation). But it comes down to "disruption of the relation of resident, landlord and fellow residents", hahaha just for opening a can of fish. I never opened a can of that stuff myself, but really when I try to read that verdict (my German is a bit sucky, but I do understand it a little) it's really to laugh your ass off that opening one can of fish can cause this.

I'll take your word for the above - Icelanders have rotten shark meat that would be eaten after a lot of strong alcohol - I didn't try it on the ground that I am tea total - that means I don't drink by choice :~)

Never heard the term "tea total" before, but in Dutch we also have a word for people who don't drink alcohol by choice. I drink alcohol only on occasion. Now I've seen shark fin soup and it looked like... er... bogies... And rotten shark meat, eh?

Well, I can also tell you the horror stories about the Dutch snack "Frikandel", although most of these horror stories rely to cows, and the truth is that they are made of chicken and that fact alone debunks about 99.9% of all horror stories... Funny, eh?

Funny how this has gone from any object in the sky but I believe that you learn something new every day and you did say that you were a living encyclopedia - You now know about English Cheese rolling , rotten fish and tea total people :~)

I know a lot about many things, and I'm an Aspie and Aspies are known for associative thinking, which can lead conversations into very unexpected directions sometimes 🤣

Isn't this life wonderful ! :~)

It can be

Not in the town I live, but hey, I the article spoke of something yellow and since Gouda cheese happens to have that color....

No offence intended - It could easily have been a Cheddar or a Gloucester at the Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling Event :~)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-ai0GGeRjs

Cheddar? Hey, I just wanted to eat and now you made me wanna puke.
I don't think it comes as a surprise that Gouda is one of the cheeses I eat most, so that it was the first cheese to come to mind.

I'm English,as you know, and I the first cheese I think of is Cheddar (Extra mature) and it is quite right that you support your national cheese. I don't roll my cheese down hills, but I Iove it on toast :~)

Gouda can also be lovely on toast, but also on other kinds of bread, or just a some blocks when drinking a alcoholic beverage. Not really beer, but rather liqueur or something like that. I must however be a bit careful with cheese as I don't have a gallbladder, and cheese can be rather fat, and that can cause... well.. let's not talk about that as then it really gets dirty. It's one of the reasons why I most really limit on pizza (the doctors were most of all impressing that on me. Eating french fries every day was fine, but pizza)...

For some reason I never liked Cheddar. But I also hate Edammer, which is also Dutch. But then again, there are a lot of Dutch kinds of food I'd never recommend to ANYBODY. If you are a zombie I could recommend you "zult".... Perhaps now you have an idea what that stuff is made of?

Love the Zombie reference :~) . Some years ago when I was in Iceland, I had half a sheeps' head
The worse part was the ears - Crunchy cartilage - The eyeball was very moreish and I wolfed down 6 off them - Mmmm nice !

Cheese to avoid - Casu martzu !

Yeah, well, the name literally means "rotten cheese" in Italian. And the idea of eating living larva doesn't appeal me. On the other hand, and that's no cheese, but fish, but you really don't wanna eat that. Surströmming. It's a Swedish fish dish, infamous for its stench.

In Germany somebody was kicked out of his apartment by the landlord, due to opening a can of surströmming in the central stairway and the stench it brought in that stairway was unbearable for all inhabitants of that flat. Now the kicked-out guy did try to sue the landlord for that, however when the landlord opened a can of surströmming in court as evidence he instantly won the case. Surströmming may perhaps not sound as unhygienic as cheese with larvae in it, as a matter of fact, the substances producing the stench appear to be the reason the fish is not rotten at all (it was invented in order to conserve the fish), and although the taste is (according to those who love that stuff) actually not nearly as bad as its smell, the smell keeps most people from eating that.

I like this German guy - My kind of person :~)