Where is my Coon cheese?
gainwait
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I type Coon cheese which is an Australian made cheese into the food database search and nothing comes up with the Coon brand name. Coon cheese used to appear in the food database but not anymore, has MFP become politically correct?
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Ha you're right, and I remember using it before too, weird huh! Just use another brand name cheese that has the same macros/calories.1
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Or just create a food and enter the data from the packet - it'll be right there whenever you need it.8
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Eh? It shows up in my food diary.0
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Eh? It shows up in my food diary.
If you logged it previously in your Food Diary, the Recent list query will pull that record from your Diary and display it for you to log it again - even if it can not be found in the public Food Database under the same name.
For the missing item in the public Food Database, if it was not "verified" by MFP, it may have been edited by another MFP user to change the name.2 -
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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. Coon cheese is still available in my personal food diary but only in slices, I wanted the calories in Coon block cheese and that's when I searched on the main food database and could not find it anymore.Eh? It shows up in my food diary.0 -
Coon is a very very odd branding choice to keep in 2018........6
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VintageFeline wrote: »Coon is a very very odd branding choice to keep in 2018........
I know... That word is used the same way here as it is in the US.2 -
There's been a low-key move to rename it for over a decade, but it's never really gotten any traction.1
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Here's how they came up with the name (taken from their site);
"The brand name recognises the work of an American, Edward William Coon, who patented a unique ripening process that was used to manufacture the original COON® Cheese".
It's a totally innocent name, it's just the ugly connotations some people connect with it.
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I'm honestly shocked. Would definitely not still exist if it was ever a thing in the UK.0
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I googled Coon Cheese. It's a type of cheddar cheese. So you can always check in other cheddar cheese and find one with similar fat content to use to aproximate to coon cheese.1
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Silly me immediately thought of raccoons, and how on earth do you get cheese out of them.
Cheers, h.15 -
Mmnmmm coon cheese. Love it.1
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Dafuq?2
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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.3 -
For the record, I didn't for one second think it was deliberately offensive because if you're going to use it in its full awful context then cheese wouldn't really be your first thought but still.......1
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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.3 -
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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
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