Current roster. Hall of Famers. Editor's picks. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Edit source History Talk 0. Despite being family-owned, small and only employing a handful of full-timers, they make every single hat nearly all by hand. Along with the original wedges of cheese, the company also makes cowboy hats, championship belts and a corn football.
In , the hat was recognized for its positive contribution to the state with one delegate saying, " The cheesehead is probably more iconic to the state of Wisconsin than beer and brats. By Matt Blitz Updated January 07, Save FB Tweet More.
The compliment is quite a long ways away from its insulting wartime origin. All rights reserved. Close Sign in. If you want to buy shares today, you must find an existing shareholder who is willing to sell. The Packers must approve ownership transfer of any shares, and they must be sold at face value. The most recent franchise to become defunct was the Dallas Texans, which folded in after one season in the league. A splash of yellow-orange paint and a few craters later, Bruno crafted the cheddar-hued hat now ubiquitous across the Badger State.
In a poignant before-and-after juxtaposition, its nose is almost touching a wheel of cheese. Cows aren't particularly smart, but they are curious and kind. And, in America's Dairyland, they are milk machines. Pagel's cows eat about pounds of feed each day and drink 35 gallons of water. They are milked three times a day and produce about 10 gallons of milk. The logistics are daunting, but a spectacular cow carousel makes it possible. Seventy-two animals are milked simultaneously; they wait their turn to be hooked up to automatic pumps, then obediently step off when the eight-minute ride is over and their load is lightened.
Six tankers, carrying 6, gallons each, leave each day from Ponderosa named for the ranch in the old television show "Bonanza" headed for Saputo Cheese in Black Creek, destined to become mozzarella or provolone atop your pizza. There is, for the visitor, an overwhelming stench of, well, cow byproducts. This, too, is dispatched with ruthless efficiency.
The methane digester converts manure into enough electricity to power the sprawling farm, as well as homes in the community. Tonight for supper, we'll have a little wine and cheese. Especially this Super Bowl Sunday. Frank Emmert, Jr. On Thanksgiving weekend in , Emmert attended the Packers' victory over the Browns, then flew home from Cleveland a week later with his flight instructor, Baron Bryan.
The weather was bad, and they were low on fuel, but they decided to take their four-seat Skyhawk Cessna on a direct route over Lake Michigan. So we did what our training taught, flew it dead ahead and took out all the trees. You try to hit the tops of the trees, they release energy.
You don't want to hit the panel or the windshield. So, that's when I assumed the position. That's when Emmert, sitting in the passenger seat, bent forward and pulled the Cheesehead, which he had been using as a pillow, over his face.
The plane cart-wheeled a few times then quickly disintegrated, leaving a debris field of more than yards. The Federal Aviation Administration photographs are harrowing. The only item visibly intact is Emmert's bloodied Cheesehead.
The impact shattered his right ankle and left his body covered with bone-deep cuts and scratches. His head, miraculously, was unscathed. Emmert, a jovial man who is prone to the bad pun, and Bryan, who wasn't seriously injured, wound up in St.
Michael's Hospital in Stevens Point. Sales of Cheeseheads soared. He does now. Emmert, in a delicious stroke of karma, is still doing his part to promote sales. If you see the Foamation cheesehead van driving around Dallas this week, Frank is the guy behind the wheel.
Roger Krohn, master cheesemaker that's what it says on his business card , still gets very excited when the subject comes up, which is quite often. That's enough to make , pizzas every day. Krohn, whose father oversaw a small cheddar plant beginning in , is the quality assurance manager at Trega Foods in Luxemburg. Wearing a white lab coat and hairnet to match, he takes a camera crew through a comprehensive tour, stopping at one point to extol the many virtues of cheese curds. Krohn is a veritable encyclopedia of cheese knowledge.
Did you know:. Wisconsin leads the nation in cheese production, at about 25 percent, a total of about 2. Some 92 percent of Wisconsin's milk goes into cheese-making, at facilities, with more than varieties.
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