It looked like the cheddar cheese industry of Ontario would go the way of the passenger pigeon as large multinationals flooded the market in the 1970s with bland, flavourless cheeses and “processed cheese products” that many of us used to dump in the high school cafeteria garbage pail. The revolting products may have helped engender a taste for true cheddar and other true craft cheeses.
The old cheese maker of Plum Hollow; Claude Flood; 73; warns the end of small cheese factories will mean the end to first-quality Canadian cheddar. Ontario’s small cheese factories are being strangled into extinction by new regulations and dwindling milk supplies.
Barkley, Harold
Picture, 1971
Toronto Star License
Toronto Public Library
Leslieville Historical Society 