Hello Blog World.
Baxter here again. Hope Halloween treated y'all well. As you might recall my last adventure took me to the Tillamook State Forest and a nice fall hike on at the forest center.
30 miles west is the Tillamook Cheese Factory. Here's the old building (before the remodel). The Co-op has been around since the early 1900s and still owned by about 100 farmer families (wouldn't it be nice to be one of those descendants???).
Goodbye old building, hello new. Of course there were a ton more people than this picture shows. The new building is nice, it focuses on 4 things: 1) Cheese making process 2) Ice Cream Sales 3) Food sales (think cheeseburger, grilled cheese, mac and cheese) and 4) Tillamook products to take home.
They were packaging cheese today which is unusual on a Saturday. Today they are packing their cheddar and their sharp cheddar.
The line was moving pretty fast till break time at 2pm when the floor emptied. That's ok, cheese workers need their breaks too. 
The pandemic has changed a few things at the tour. Now the cheese samples are pre-packaged but they still have the free samples. The humans and I were too busy collecting the cheese samples that they were not able to get any pictures of me. 
The line for the food was crazy long but the line for the ice cream was super short. The heck with lunch, time to get some ice cream. They have a ton of flavors but I settled on a 3 ice cream "flight" with Oregon Dark Cherry (gotta support the home team), Monster Cookies (think Cookies and Cream with M+Ms candy) and a seasonal flavor Campfire Smores.
No more time to blog, must eat before it all melts.
Baxter out.
Baxter out.
Tillamook! We had that show up on that puzzle we worked on. The cheese factory looks awesome. I bet the cheese samples were delicious. Did you happen to see Navy Beanie or Cocoa Beanie while you were there? That strikes me as a place they would love to hang out.
ReplyDeleteWhat's your favorite cheese? Sounds like a cool trip!
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