Hi All,
“supposedly” got cheese has four times the MCT (medium chain triglycerides) in it than bovine cheese.
Problem: here in the states we gag on what is delicious in Europe. French Bree, Italian mozzarella, Greek feta are wonderfully delicious. But not here in the states. The last goat cheese I tried made me gag!
You guys know of a USA goat cheese that is gag free?
Many thanks,
-T
I make my own when I can get raw goat’s milk 
But that wasn’t your question… are you talking soft or hard goat cheese?
I have tried lots of sheep and goat cheeses (and combos of the two) but all are hard, aged cheeses and I don’t recall any that I thought were terrible. Murray’s cheeses are almost always good if you can find them (company based in New York, I think).
Also, high-end groceries stores may carry cheeses imported from Europe or you can find online. I can’t get good goat cheese where I live but when I go to Jonesboro there is a Signature Kroger that has an extensive selection of cheeses, including a lot of Murray’s.
Also in New York, check out Big Y, Stop n’ Shop, Trader Joe’s, Hannaford, and Adams Fair Acre Farms.
I don’t understand this, many of you guys are Europian descendants. How did you forget cheese making so quickly? lol
Goats cheese is excellent IMO, are goats not kept in the US? They are quite adaptable creatures 
That’s too bad. I have a local guy who has a goat dairy and makes his own goat cheese and it’s delicious. Much better than bovine.
The US is weird. For some reason, we went mainly to pigs and cows, and of course chickens. Not much lamb or goats. Goats are much more logical where I live, because they eat almost everything and supposedly do a great job removing a lot of plants that are problematic. They’ll even eat your Christmas tree needles. They don’t need the amount of land that something like a cow needs.
There are goat farms around, but they aren’t as popular, and I very rarely see something like goat meat.
People tell me I should have goats, because we have enough land for a small number of goats, and they’re supposedly relatively easy to keep.
Yeah worth considering. They can have a bit of an attitude problem. Might see off intruders lol
I notice the Beef / Pork thing. Personally I prefer Lamb when not eating beef. Though belly pork I like and easy to forget Bacon is pork.
We also have a local farm-to-table group that keeps goats (you can even adopt one for a weekend, lol)
Their goat cheese is divine. A good wheel of goat cheese is not safe around me.
It’s a biy moreish lol … unlike any other cheese. I like some on my omlette and a few anchovies on the top
That is what I remember from my time in grease. THe stuff I tried from Trader Joe;s made me gag!
I coud adopt one for weed control!
Our neighbour doesn’t visit his property every year… It got quite out of hand during… IDK, we live here since ~1.5 decades only… But it got quite serious. Another neighbour released some goats there for a few days… WOW. The place got so empty! My SO used them to eat the leaves off some young trees he cut out too, they work quickly! (We don’t have fence everywhere, goats once ate our young Granny Smith tree, among others. It survived though. I wished I could get my pound of flesh for it but alas, that’s not how things work… 
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They used to sell some fresh goat cheese several years ago, it was expensive and awesome. I like my normal food well enough but that was pure bliss!
I could get goat milk as a kid a few times, weird but nice! Some supermarkets have it here and there very occasionally but last time it run out when arrived.
I never see goat meat (once, long ago the beef farm butchered some and we got half a kid. it was nice). But we had huge sheep herds in the past (I mean, 100-200 years ago…) and now I can’t get mutton. Beef isn’t so easy to get either but the bigger towns and cities have some. Village supermarkets and butchers don’t. We have pork and chicken. Not every day though…
The ones nearby are nice but they have a huge talent at getting tangled into their own leash if they have that…
Follow up: I took a trip to Trader Joe’s yesterday. I picked up some Chevre Silve got and some TJ’s branded Gouda Style goat cheese. Both were okay, but not special. I also noticed TJ’s had a cheddar style goat cheese and I remembered that was the one years ago I tried and gagged on.
What I need to find is a goat rancher that makes his own cheese.
Thank you all for the gracious tips and wisdom!
This is for Connecticut, but I think they have other states too:
https://www.eatwild.com/products/connecticut.html
They list a lamb/goat farmer, but it’s pretty much as far away in the state as you can get. Which isn’t far (not driving across PA or TX), but far enough it’s not an easy trek.
Sounds like you need to ditch Trader Joe’s for goat cheese! Find a store that imports from Europe if you have one around.
When I lived in Houston there was a liquor store chain called Spec’s and the one in downtown Houston was the largest liquor store I have ever been in! Worth the trip downtown for not only the wine selections, but the imported cheeses and charcuterie.
Meat goats, yes. But if you are wanting the milk it is a much bigger commitment… you have to milk them at least once, preferrably twice a day and keep a smelly buck to freshen them every year so they keep producing milk. Then you have to do something with the bucks that are born because you typically only want to keep the girls.
My dream for a long time was to have milk goats when I retired but after milking my neighbor’s goats twice a day for 3 weeks I decided I wasn’t going to have the energy to keep up or be able to travel much. Glad I found out before I invested in a small herd and all the equipment, feed, stalls, milking stands, etc that are needed.
I remember the SINGLE day when I had to feed the neighbours’ piglets from a bottle every 2 hours. A single day tired me out. I think not many animals are for me. The cats can fend for themselves in a need and it’s not so hard to feed them anyway… And we have 4 young-ish girls now so no more neutering for a long time… That was a bit tougher (I was so sorry for poor weak dizzy ones who still wanted to jump and run…) but only once for every cat!
And as they are not much work, I can ask someone to feed them if we travel…
Some goats, they would be too serious for me too. Even some chickens though I would probably try them if I had the place for them (and less foxes. they would need some serious protection). And the goats need a pretty big place, they eat quickly! Someone here keeps goats and sheeps too, they use a pretty big area for them, they need to be taken elsewhere if they eat up everything… Surely there is lots of work.
This was one of the arguments in The Vegetarian Myth (book), where she said that vegetarians who eat dairy don’t understand that the cows (and goats) have to be bred to produce milk.
Yeah, I wasn’t thinking about milk per se, and there would be no way for me to get goats anyway, as my wife would never agree to that. They definitely could have some benefits though.
Those are some stupid (or ignorant, never thinking about it… or maybe insanely unknowledgeable?) vegetarians… Both the dairy and egg industry involved killing off a ton of male offsprings, it’s how it works. Obviously. But growing plant food involves mass killing animals too so I don’t get the high horse anyway.
Mmmm, goat milk. It’s a fun thing. It couldn’t ever replace the way more mild cow milk but it’s an interesting treat occcasionally.