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pistolspinner t1_ixvft03 wrote

First of all, that's a great cheeseball. Well done.

But while on the subject, by whom and how was the cheeseball invented? Did someone bring a melty ball of cheese jn their pocket to a party and it somehow was a hit? Genuinely curious.

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DanasPaperFlowers OP t1_ixvma3q wrote

That’s a great question- I don’t know! Google says “Legend has it that a Massachusetts farmer created the first cheese ball in recorded history in 1801 and presented to President Jefferson at the White House.”

I just asked my dad if he knew how the tradition started in our family and he said “I do not. Interesting question. It just seems like it was always here.”

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pistolspinner t1_ixvmyho wrote

hahaha right?

i guess there are two options:

  1. cheeseballs are our progenitor species and have just always been around.

  2. that farmer somehow conned his way into the whitehouse with a pocket lint covered ball of soft cheese, and to downplay the baffle, the whitehouse worshiped the cheeseball and made it a national delicacy.

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