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[Get Real!]

Halloumi was invented by the ancient Choirokitians 8,000 years ago, only they milked mini hippos and the dwarf mouflon to create little patties of stale milk mixed with wheat they called… “Hippo Hops” or “Wheatie Moufs” later to be combined under the “Choiro-pops” label and exported to all directions from the island!

The Hittites repackaged and resold them as “Otto-pops”, the Lebanese pinched the recipe made their own and marketed them as “Druze-pops” while the Syrians renamed them to “Syrial-pops”, the Egyptians thought they were little Cypriot bricks and started building houses with them, and finally the Jews would throw the non-kosher halloumi away and use the wrapper as a condom.

[bill cobbett]

Here's an interesting thing and we might want to make it a sort of CF Scientific Experiment ....

Always have some fresh Feta in the fridge, well it's so nice in a CY-style salad. Anyway a small bit got left behind at the back of the fridge for a couple of weeks and it developed a hardish skin.

Now rather than dumping it, and having a cast iron stomach, had a small tasting... and would you believe it had turned in to a near Camenbert!!!!! .. and really nice stuff.

Thought it extraordinary and still think it interesting.

[Oracle]

Feta and Halloumi are related. They are both stored in brine for example and made from near-similar combinations of ewe/goat milk.

And feta is definitely mentioned by Homer ... so there's another early Greek link to Halloumi!

[Oracle]

Halloumi is the independent, rustic, peasant version of Feta!

(What a metaphor! )

[insan]

Halloumi was invented by the ancient Choirokitians 8,000 years ago, only they milked mini hippos and the dwarf mouflon to create little patties of stale milk mixed with wheat they called… “Hippo Hops” or “Wheatie Moufs” later to be combined under the “Choiro-pops” label and exported to all directions from the island!

The Hittites repackaged and resold them as “Otto-pops”, the Lebanese pinched the recipe made their own and marketed them as “Druze-pops” while the Syrians renamed them to “Syrial-pops”, the Egyptians thought they were little Cypriot bricks and started building houses with them, and finally the Jews would throw the non-kosher halloumi away and use the wrapper as a condom.

This one made my day, GR! Thanks a loté It's the first time you made me laugh out loud(in real life)...

You must submit these definitions to urban dictionary...

[Get Real!]

It's the first time you made me laugh out loud(in real life)...

That’s a bit of an insult because in the past I used to do a LOT of funny posts…

[insan]

It's the first time you made me laugh out loud(in real life)...

That’s a bit of an insult because in the past I used to do a LOT of funny posts…

relativity...

[Get Real!]

It's the first time you made me laugh out loud(in real life)...

That’s a bit of an insult because in the past I used to do a LOT of funny posts…

relativity...

Maybe it was during your absence because you were here before most and then disappeared for a few years and then… well you know the story!

[Oracle]

[Oracle]

Feta and Halloumi are related. They are both stored in brine for example and made from near-similar combinations of ewe/goat milk.

And feta is definitely mentioned by Homer ... so there's another early Greek link to Halloumi!

Oh Oracle, you are such a genius!

Talk about independent verification!


We’ve been marketing feta since before the Greeks
By Jean Christou
Published on October 28, 2005

OPPOSITION DISY yesterday said the government should have fought to claim the use of the name ‘feta’ along with Greece, which this week won the exclusive use of the word to describe the popular goat’s milk cheese.
Under the ruling, Cyprus, which has traditionally produced feta, will no longer be able to market the cheese under the same name. The ruling will come into effect in 2007.
According to a statement from DISY, Cyprus produces 1,000 tonnes of feta annually, which creates a market for eight million litres of milk. “It is the second most popular and loved cheese in Cyprus.”
The statement said that Cyprus had been monitoring and marketing the feta long before Greece, and records as far back as 1904 showed that Cyprus was exporting feta to Egypt.
The cheese, along with Cyprus halloumi, had a common ancestor, which was mentioned in Homer’s Iliad and in the Odyssey.
“Fetta” and Fettas are also well-established family name in Cyprus it added. It also said the correct spelling was ‘fetta’ in the Cypriot dialect.
“The government should have negotiated with Greece for the protection of the name for Greece and for Cyprus,” the statement said.
DISY deputy Maria Kyriacou said in a press conference later in the day that while Cyprus was monitoring feta production in 1904, Greece did not begin to do this until around 1931.
“The government and more particularly the Commerce Ministry should wake up and undertake an initiative to protect this traditional product before it’s too late,” said Kyriacou.
Kyriacou produced a handwritten letter dated 1917 from a tradesman in Larnaca asking the then British High Commissioner for authorisation for the export of 3,000 okes of feta and halloumi.
“With this evidence, the government could claim with Greece simultaneous use of name feta in Cyprus in order to protect the Cypriot product,” Kyriacou said.
Dairy companies in Cyprus are taking stock of Tuesday’s decision by the European Court of Justice to reserve the name ‘feta’ for Greece.
The main dairies in Cyprus said they were unlikely to work together on a new name or an imitation name but would just continue to market the cheese without the use of the word ‘feta’.

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