This is how you buy some of the best Alpine cheese: there is a small fortune in cheese (and some butter and yoghurt) in this fridge with payment based on just trusting your customers to leave the money in a post box 🤩🧀
@vicgrinberg@bergmeister you don’t need to end up being thirsty either. this was last year between Tegernsee and Schliersee in November. The Alm was closed for the season. But they took care of the occasional hikers anyway. 😅
@mxk@vicgrinberg@bergmeister I know. It didn’t really matter. It was a Monday in November. I was attending a conference at in Munich on Tuesday and Wednesday. So I decided to arrive on Sunday and use the Monday for some trail running in the Schliersee/Tegernsee area. Convenient with the train and the spa close to the train station for changing/showering/relaxing afterwards.
@recollir@vicgrinberg@bergmeister jup, the Spa definitely is an argument!
(I was in Lenggries today, which is also conveniently reachable by train, but lacks the Spa...)
@nbhansen it was really, really hard not to buy all the cheese - we still got enough that it will very much be challenging to finish it before we leave in 2 weeks 😅
@vicgrinberg Similar to in Japan how during the pandemic a bunch of storefronts opened up that have freezers full of gyoza and other foods. This is in downtown Kyoto. Just a box to put money in. The one time someone stole from one it was a national news story
I bought a few ears of corn from a similar roadside stand back in the summer out cycling. Inside was a small rogue’s gallery of people caught leaving without paying by the overhead webcam :-)
@sundogplanets it's the same here with the raw milk and homemade cheeses - lots of Alpine farms make "official" cheeses, though (I don't fully understand the structure behind how this works, especially since there is also a difference between Austria and Germany).
There are sometime kitchen made products, though - jams, sirups, vinegar and such are allowed under certain rules and when sold on one's own property exclusively (roughly, the real rules are likely again complicated).
@vicgrinberg Yeah, there's similar rules for home-canned things here, I think if it has a disclaimer that it was made in a home kitchen it's ok? Haven't had to explore that option yet, and it's not an option that's open to dairy, period. Plus, I don't think I could possibly sell my own homemade cheese for enough to be worth it. I don't do it for $$, I do it for delicious food that I know came from well-treated animals.
(And a bit of ranting between friends is fine, this also needs to get out... And it's so far from my own experience that it's actually super interesting to hear for me since it's not something I would usually think about a lot! Your reply yesterday actually made me search for the rules here and I learned quiet a bit!)
@vicgrinberg I love finding these Honesty Boxes as they're called here. Never found one with cheese, unfortunately. In the UK it's usually just water/cans of soft drink and chocolate bars, but I did find one in Scotland once that had loaves of bread.
The cheese is a thing in the Alps where many of the farms focus on cheese production and many places make theor own local cheeses. The lowlands close by are then apples (South Germany close to Lake Constance is a major apple growing area) or other fruit. Also homemade jams.
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They're called Honesty Boxes in Scotland and they're dotted all around the countryside. Mostly farm produce but sometimes flowers and traybakes.
@ForfarFairLady@vicgrinberg We also have them in Connecticut. In the summer, especially on the country roads. It's not unusual to turn a corner, and see a table on the side of the road with honey and fresh eggs next to a cash box.
@vegetarianzombie@ForfarFairLady we mainly get apples here (South Germany close to Lake Constance is major apple growing area) ; other fruit, too, in summer. And how lovely to hear that it works the same way around the world.
With the above whta blows my mind is that there are certainly 2000 Euros or so in a fridge like this...
We also have some "Selbstbedienungsbauernladen" around our Village, sometimes directly on the country road. The only farmer shops where you can be sure that most of the products are grown locally.
Nice idea for a photo series here ... I will start with the honey stand tomorrow. 🙂
@keadamander we (or rather partner since I am just a long-term guest here) also have a few, but most are either not too expensive stuff (mostly apples since it's Bodensee 😅) or it's vending machines. The above is most impressive fully open one in terms of how much stuff in there would cost (I estimate at least 2000 Euros of cheese in there!)
And yes to the photos, please DO let me know if you post them!
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@kerstinsailer a 12 month old Bergkäse (we got another younger one at a tiny farm earlier!), a Montafoner (not the sour cheese, just another alpine cheese), a Camembert and some butter. There are definitely both a cheese dinner and some käsespätzle coming 😊
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