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Goats' cheese?

Where is goats' cheese from. I think goat's cheese is fine but possessive in plural looks really odd. It suggests that you needed to mix milk from different goats to obtain it.Mikolasj (talk) 09:42, 23 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

On a second thought, even goat's cheese is dubious. I believe that goat's milk means milk from a goat but the cheese is not really from the goat (only the milk is). So goat cheese is probably the most correct term as it specifies the kind of the cheese. Mikolasj (talk) 18:26, 23 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that the possessive form is inappropriate. The goat does not own the cheese, neither is the cheese an essential property of the goat, as in "flower's scent." As an amateur goat fromager, I always use the term "goat milk" and "goat milk cheese" instead of the possessive form. — Bytesmiths (talk) 17:02, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nutritional Information

Think we should add some. Apparently chevre is good for people with sensitive stomachs as it is easy to digest. 364 calories per 100 grams. It contains short-chain fatty acids, etc.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.69.198.244 (talk) 08:45, 25 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The article currently contradicts itself "Although cow's milk and goat's milk have similar overall fat contents" "Because goat milk is leaner than that of cows, goat cheese tends to be leaner as well" Jray14upa (talk) 23:00, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The section below "China" is wrong regarding fat content. Goat milk will tend to have more fat that cow milk, but there is greater variation among breeds than there is between cow and goat. For example, a Gurnsey cow will have higher fat milk than a French Alpine goat, but a Nubian goat will have much higher fat content than a Holstein cow. Our Nubians measure out at nearly 8% -- over twice the fat content of standardized cow milk (3%)! — Bytesmiths (talk) 16:30, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure it was the right template to add, but I just added the advertisement template because this section has an awful lot of unsourced material about how great dairy products are for your health. It strays pretty far from the topic of goat cheese. John W (talk) 06:03, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Article title

Is goats' cheese really known as "chèvre cheese"? Perhaps this is a United States usage (on a par with the American habit of referring to snails, when eaten, as "escargots")? -- Picapica 22:33, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think it's a U.S. usage. Around here, we call it "goats' milk cheese". This probably ought to be disambiguated anyway. There are several cheeses made from goats' milk. --GentlemanGhost 20:28, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have often heard goat's milk cheese simply referred to as chevre, although this usage is not as common as "goat cheese." "Chevre cheese" is never used. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.185.234.24 (talk) 16:52, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why the brand name mentions?

It doesn't add anything to the article to name brands of goat cheese in two select countried. I don't feel strongly enough about it to change it, though. TobyCallahan 02:07, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the bit about the USA cheeses. The other cheeses mentioned are named for their regional characteristics, they are not name brands or specific companies. The info about Humboldt Fog under the USA was blatant advertising. If someone has legitimate info about USA goat cheese varieties then they should put up a USA subheading. --K 10 23:17, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Humboldt Fog add is still there. We should be frank, the USA has done nothing inovative in regards to Goats cheese. There are great makers but nothing new.

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Goat milk cheese → Goat cheese — By an enormous margin, the overwhelmingly more common term for the cheese. Hits at least four of the five criteria at WP:MOSNAME, with the sole possible exception of "precision", though there is no plausible concern that many people would think "goat cheese" is made of goats rather than goats' milk. --^Bongo_matic 01:23, 15 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support Clearly most common name. Also more natural and concise (per WP:TITLE) and no less precise. Finally, it's obviously the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC which is confirmed by the fact that Goat cheese already redirects here. --Born2cycle (talk) 01:48, 15 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support per all of the above. –CWenger (talk) 02:15, 15 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Goat cheese seems to be the most common name, but that's because it is most common in the United States. In the UK it is usually known as goat's cheese, although it is occasionally referred to as goat cheese. Goat milk cheese, or goat's milk cheese, is a less common name. "Goat cheese" is preferred, either as the most common name, or (if different varieties of English are relevant) as the article is written in American English. Peter E. James (talk) 10:57, 15 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - "goat cheese"? That would be cheese made out of goats! Deb (talk) 18:40, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think the average person would realize that Goat Cheese is not made from Goats even if we use the proposed term. I don't think we should avoid using Goat Cheese any more that we should not use the term head cheese on the grounds that people may think that it is cheese made from heads.--76.66.189.59 (talk) 21:47, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]