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DanasPaperFlowers OP t1_ixvma3q wrote

Reply to comment by pistolspinner in [Homemade] Cheeseball by DanasPaperFlowers

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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