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All very English, as recorded in Victor Meusy's couplet:
_Dans le Chester sec et rose
A longues dents, l'Anglais mord._
In the Chester dry and pink
The long teeth of the English sink.
Edam and Gouda
_Edam in Peace and War_
There also coming into the river two Dutchmen, we sent a couple of men
on board and brought three Holland cheeses, cost 4d. a piece,
excellent cheeses.
Pepys' _Diary_, March 2,1663
Commodore Coe, of the Montevidian Navy, defeated Admiral Brown of
the Buenos Ayrean Navy, in a naval battle, when he used Holland
cheese for cannon balls.
_The Harbinger_ (Vermont), December 11, 1847
The crimson cannon balls of Holland have been heard around the world.
Known as "red balls" in England and _katzenkopf,_ "cat's head," in
Germany, they differ from Gouda chiefly in the shape, Gouda being
round but flattish and now chiefly imported as one-pound Baby Goudas.
Edam when it is good is very, very good, but when it is bad it is
horrid.
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