Mammoth Cheese or brains? : V

» Wed Jun 06, 2012 6:54 am

Looks like brains, which has been called 'head cheese'. Used to be a 'delicacy' before the various wasting illnesses were understood. Anyway, my son and I were wondering if the Mammoth cheese was cheese or 'sweet breads'?

» Tue Jun 05, 2012 6:52 pm

Its cheese from the mammoths milk.

» Wed Jun 06, 2012 12:22 am

And how do we know this? Just curious.

» Wed Jun 06, 2012 2:44 am

Because its called Mammoth Cheese. :shrug:

» Tue Jun 05, 2012 8:05 pm

Its cheese from the mammoths milk.

I wonder if giants outsource the milking...

» Wed Jun 06, 2012 12:45 am

Giants use Mammoths as cattle. Mammoths are mammals. Mammals give milk. Milk can be made into cheese, it doesn't spoil for longer. The presense of Mammoth's cheese is kind of not surprising at all.

» Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:49 pm

Skyrimmish Mammoth Cheese, Cyrodilic Minotaur Butter, Braetonic Wendigo Cream. It's very, very delicious.

» Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:16 am

I'd say "We can tell because it tastes like cheese", but giant's toe tastes and smells of cheese too...

...don't deny it. You've all eaten one.

» Wed Jun 06, 2012 2:32 am

/thread

» Wed Jun 06, 2012 1:06 am

...don't deny it. You've all eaten one.

I was drunk. Very drunk. I've also eaten one in the game.

» Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:51 am

lol

I think there's also the possibilty that "mammoth cheese" is head cheese. I.E., a big ball of meat scraps pressed into a cheese-like shape. Scrapple, for those of us who live in parts of the South with enough older country folk for it to be in the grocery store.

» Wed Jun 06, 2012 9:33 am

I was drunk. Very drunk.

Pfft. Thats never an excuse. Drinking just lowers your inhibitions, so you really wanted to all along

» Wed Jun 06, 2012 2:20 am

Brains and eyes are usually removed when making head cheese. Depending on the person, they are used in another dish or discarded.

Head cheese is basiclly the meat from the head with some of the geletin created by boiling it.

» Tue Jun 05, 2012 6:16 pm

i dont know which sheogorath quote to put here "cheese for everyone!!" or "i like brain ~~pie~~ cheese, care to donate?"

» Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:11 pm

True. People still do eat brains (from some animals) but it's a separate thing from head cheese. I suppose people don't eat cow brains any more because of the potential for Mad Cow Disease, and there's the wasting sickness for deer (similar prion-based disease) so I'm pretty sure nobody eats deer brains. Pig brains, I suppose, are still eaten.

» Wed Jun 06, 2012 6:41 am

I always thought those bags looked more like some form of cottage cheese or cheese curds.