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Let’s learn about the Chaucer of Cheese.

His name is James McIntyre. He was born in the Scottish village of Forres in 1827 then moved to Canada when he was 14. Our little bard lived there in the Ontario town of Ingersoll. He took up work as a furniture and coffin maker, but that’s not what he’s known for. In his spare time he wrote poems, even composing tributes to his furniture.

He also used his poems to boost the local economy. This being the mid 1800s, the local economy was cheese. To wit, in 1866, Ontario dairy farmers produced the biggest block of cheese at the time – more than 21 feet across and weighing 7500 lbs. Mr. McIntyre’s two most famous poems are about this gigantic cheese wheel: “Ode on the Mammoth Cheese” and “Prophesy of Ten Ton Cheese.”

Many of his cheese related poems were reprinted in the Toronto Globe (“Oxford Cheese Ode”, “Hints to Cheesemakers”, “Dairy Ode”, “Father Ranney, the Cheese Pioneer”) which made him famoUs in Canada and around the world. I’m not including any of his actual poems here because it turns out, he’s terrible! He’s in the running for worst poet ever terrible. He rhymed his poems and did so forcibly such as “fodder” and “Cheddar” or “shoes Norwegian” and “narrow toboggan.”

If you truly hate yourself, look up these poems and see for yourself. Or, and hear me out, don’t and enjoy your weekend instead.

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