On Sun, 03 Sep 2017 14:21:58 -0600, U.S. Janet B. >
wrote:

>On Sun, 03 Sep 2017 15:00:40 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:
>
>>Bruce wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>snip
>>>
>>> Don't get angry over nothing. I now know that Americans call Swiss
>>> cheese what I've called 'farmer's cheese' all my life. But before this
>>> thread, Swiss cheese was a grated cheese with a very specific smell to
>>> me.
>>>
>Farmers cheese in the US is pressed cottage cheese, a soft cheese. US
>termed Swiss cheese is nothing like Farmers Cheese.

In the Netherlands, 'farmers' cheese' (boerenkaas) is a hard, holey
cheese with a stronger flavour than standard hard cheese. It may be
close to what Americans call Swiss cheese. I guess it doesn't matter,
as long as one knows what one's referring to.