Where is my Coon cheese?
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My first thought......it was cheese made from the milk of lactating racoons.7
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Coon cheese, Bega and Toe Jam, any other unique Australian cheese names? I assumed Coon cheese must be either some reference to the inventor or the masked night bandits making away with it, but I have no idea on Bega, and Toe Jam sounds the worst of them all...2
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SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish wrote: »Coon cheese, Bega and Toe Jam, any other unique Australian cheese names? I assumed Coon cheese must be either some reference to the inventor or the masked night bandits making away with it, but I have no idea on Bega, and Toe Jam sounds the worst of them all...
Bega exists, Toe Jam is a joke.3 -
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When I type Coon in the food database it gives me two types of chocolate coons (whatever they are) to choose from but when I type in Coon cheese it gives me all the other brands of cheese but Coon.
It's just a typo: coon = coin. Coon cheese isn't in the database - I suspect the user who said someone edited it is right. Which is idiotic, it's a guy's name for God's sake.
Here's a site with the nutritional info for their products. Calories for a gram of the block cheese should be the same as the slices, I would think, and you could always read the labels at your supermarket:
https://www.fatsecret.com.au/calories-nutrition/search?q=Coon+Cheese2 -
people need to get over themselves. how disrespectful to the family of the man that invented it to suggest that the name should be changed.
i really hope mfp add it back to be used.
in the meantime people need to watch this
https://youtu.be/ceS_jkKjIgo 5 -
I haven't heard that word used for anything else but cheese here in Australia.VintageFeline wrote: »I'm honestly shocked. Would definitely not still exist if it was ever a thing in the UK.
I have spent a fair bit of time in the far north of Australia and it is a common racial slur up there amongst those inclined to not behave like decent human beings.
I really like the cheese but I don't expect people to "just get over it" like suggested by another poster, if you heard it used like I have towards people I can understand why those on the receiving end feel like they do.
To the OP, you might have to make your own entry from the packet and just not share it with the database?3 -
i have heard it used in that way but how would you feel if you worked on something and was recognised for it by having it banged after you then one day someone says "I'm sorry your name has another meaning that some people use offensively so we aren't going to use it any more"
many words have multiple meaning. people aren't stupid. they know the difference between being insulted and someone looking for cheese.
political correctness is not a good thing when it goes so overboard. should all the people that have that name go down to births deaths and marriages to have it changed?8 -
I live in the American South. The only context in which I've heard the word in a decade or two has been "coon dog" or "coon hound" or "coon hunting." Those references are common.2
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i have heard it used in that way but how would you feel if you worked on something and was recognised for it by having it banged after you then one day someone says "I'm sorry your name has another meaning that some people use offensively so we aren't going to use it any more"
many words have multiple meaning. people aren't stupid. they know the difference between being insulted and someone looking for cheese.
political correctness is not a good thing when it goes so overboard. should all the people that have that name go down to births deaths and marriages to have it changed?
Honestly? If it were my name and my brand, I'd be totally cool with it being changed.4 -
Alatariel75 wrote: »MistressSara wrote: »I'm not googling what is, apparently, some kind of derogatory remark, but I've only heard coon used as a diminutive for raccoon. As in, Daniel Boone wore a coon skin cap.
It's up there with the N word.
I had to ask someone what the n word was not long ago.2 -
charlieandcarol wrote: »
I haven't heard that word used for anything else but cheese here in Australia.VintageFeline wrote: »I'm honestly shocked. Would definitely not still exist if it was ever a thing in the UK.
I have spent a fair bit of time in the far north of Australia and it is a common racial slur up there amongst those inclined to not behave like decent human beings.
I really like the cheese but I don't expect people to "just get over it" like suggested by another poster, if you heard it used like I have towards people I can understand why those on the receiving end feel like they do.
To the OP, you might have to make your own entry from the packet and just not share it with the database?
Yeah I just used Bega cheese instead. I did try and add the Coon cheese back into the main database and it accepted it but I looked it up a minute later and I could not find it. No big deal but I thought it was a bit odd that only a few months ago it showed up but not now. I live in Sydney so I have not heard that word said in any other form around me.0 -
The thing is, MFP doesn't curate the database really, they just host it. Chances are some user edited the entry. Regardless all you have to do is add it back in. Maybe call it "Coon brand cheese" so someone unfamiliar with it doesn't think it's someone being a jerk.
ETA: Based on your most recent post, maybe certain words are flagged and auto-deleted? Could try a hyphenated like Coon-brand-cheese or something like that.2 -
The thing is, MFP doesn't curate the database really, they just host it. Chances are some user edited the entry. Regardless all you have to do is add it back in. Maybe call it "Coon brand cheese" so someone unfamiliar with it doesn't think it's someone being a jerk.
ETA: Based on your most recent post, maybe certain words are flagged and auto-deleted? Could try a hyphenated like Coon-brand-cheese or something like that.
Yes I would say certain words are flagged as I did what you said and added coon-brand cheese as the name to the database and while it let me add it to my food diary under that name I could not find it in the main food database so that is what it looks like they are doing. No user could find and edit the name in under 10 seconds which is how long it took me to add it to the database and then search for it so I would rule out another user editing it. All good.0 -
Every time I add a food in the main database I can't find it there till the next day or so. Can only find it in my own foods initially.
Then again I also don't see the wall activity of newer friends...0 -
I've started using the barcode scanner to enter foods, it's amazing!!1
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VintageFeline wrote: »i have heard it used in that way but how would you feel if you worked on something and was recognised for it by having it banged after you then one day someone says "I'm sorry your name has another meaning that some people use offensively so we aren't going to use it any more"
many words have multiple meaning. people aren't stupid. they know the difference between being insulted and someone looking for cheese.
political correctness is not a good thing when it goes so overboard. should all the people that have that name go down to births deaths and marriages to have it changed?
Honestly? If it were my name and my brand, I'd be totally cool with it being changed.
My high school maths teacher, Mike Hunt, never felt the need to change his name. (yup, I'm serious, lol)3
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