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The Tillamook Chhese Factory, Tillamook, OR
This was an anticipated stop, I wanted to stop here
Origin of those huge cheese bricks at Costco
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| The Tillamook County Creamery is a coop among the dairy farmers in the area |
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Although the television commercials depict it as rather rustic, this is a modern cheese and ice cream factory in every way and a very big operation 
 
 The parking lot is huge and very crowded. This gave us a clue to what we would find inside |
 It was time for lunch so we stopped first in the cafe It was mobbed. Very, very long lines to order some food. Then, onced we ordered, they estimated 30 minuts to be served. Fortunately, it was much less than that. |
 You always see photos of jack-alopes at tourist stops Here they have photos of trucks with huge bricks of cheese and tubs of ice cream. |
 In a self-guided tour, they have an upper floor from which you can see the operation through windows overlooking the production lines 
 We were too late in the day to see the curding operations, but they were cutting up huge blocks of aged cheese into various sizes for shipment to points of sale |
 Tillamook cheese is strictly kosher. They have a rabbi that regularly comes by to certify the cheese and the operations |
The reward for taking the factory tour is a counter where you
can buy an ice cream cone
 Emerging back down stairs, there is a tasting counter where we tasted 8-10 of their cheeses. Yum! |
| Tillamook, Oregon |
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