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Who says factory tours aren’t exciting?

This better depicts the excitement of the Tillamook Cheese Factory tour, where there are numerous places to buy ice cream, cheese, chocolate and smoked meat. It was like the puppy dog/toy/fireworks factory that Bart Simpson is taunted with.

The actual ‘factory tour’ part is a little on the slim side. You basically stand on a wide glass-enclosed terrace and look into one big room where blocks of cheese are getting wrapped up. It’s pretty cool. It’s pretty much exactly what I wanted to see: tons of raw product being shrink wrapped. Jeremy was disappointed that there was not a big cheese river oozing through the factory area. I liked the special hair net one of the workers was wearing over his beard.

I gotta say… not the biggest fan of their ice cream, though there were a lot more flavor choices here than you can buy at the super market. I will stand by the cheese, which I’ve eaten entire blocks of (only baby-loafs) at one sitting. And the gift shop satisfied another desire in that they sold oddly-shaped cheese remnant clumps, which was something I was hoping to see.