Coon cheese - Wikipedia Coon cheese For other uses, see Coon. Coon Type Cheese Manufacturer Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Country of origin Warrnambool Color Yellow Flavor Various types Website coon.com.au This article may be unbalanced towards certain viewpoints. Please improve the article by adding information on neglected viewpoints, or discuss the issue on the talk page. ( May 2017 ) COON is the trademark of a cheddar cheese produced by Warrnambool Cheese and Butter company in Australia. It was first launched in 1935 by Fred Walker. LD&D Foods ( who also hold a stake in the company ) were the previous operator of the brand until it was sold back to WCB in 2015. Contents 1 Makers 1.1 Alternative account 2 In popular culture 3 References Makers Coon cheese is named after its American creator, Edward William Coon ( 1871 -- 1934 ) of Philadelphia, who patented a method, subsequently known as the Cooning process, for fast maturation of cheese via high temperature and humidity. Former manufacturer Kraft, and later Dairy Farmers and National Foods, have vigorously defended the trademark. E.W. Coon was the grandson of Amherst Coon ( 1795 -- 1877 ), a farmer born in Russia, New York, who married Sally Betsey Treat in 1822. His sons Mattison ( b. 1823 ) and Ephraim Coon ( b. 1832 ) were described in 1893 as having been in the butter and cheese business together at 29 South Water Street, Philadelphia, for more than thirty years. Ephraim 's son Edward Willie Coon was born on 30 July 1871, and had taken out at least one cheese patent by 1912. In August 1923, The Journal and Republican of Lowville, New York, reported the sale by `` E.W. Coon of Philadelphia, maker and shipper of cheese '', of five milk plants in villages around Watertown to the Dairymen 's League Co-operative Association, Inc. It also stated that While no announcement is made as to which of the numerous Coon plants in northern New York have been bought by the League, it is understood that the big Cape Vincent plant is not among those transferred... The Coon chain of plants include stations at Brownville, Chaumont, Rosiere, Cape Vincent, Clayton and La Fargeville, with several cheese factories in the surrounding territory... Mr Coon 's business has been cheese making primarily... On 27 February 1926 Coon filed an application for a Process for Ripening Cheese. Patent No 1579196 was issued on 30 March 1926. Coon 's patent claimed : A process for ripening cheese, consisting of supplying, through suitable means, humidified air to a room or chamber set aside for the purpose, the humidified air to have a range of temperature from 45 ° to 75 ° F., and a moisture percentage of from 65 % to 95 %. A process for ripening cheese having an original moisture percentage of 36 % to 40 % and subjecting it to a temperature of 55 ° F., to 70 ° F., in combination with a humidity percentage of from 75 % to 90 %. From 1933 a cheese was marketed by Fred Walker as Red Coon, and was coated with red wax. The wax was later replaced with cellophane and the red stripe in the logo is a residual reference to the original packaging. After selling his processing plants, Edward W. Coon became a cheese dealer in Philadelphia. He died in 1934, aged sixty - two. Coon was working at the Philadelphia office of the Kraft - Phoenix Cheese Corporation at the time of his death according to The Journal and Republican in Lowville, New York. Alternative account The accuracy of the account of the origin of the brand name has been challenged by anti-racism campaigner Stephen Hagan. In spite of much contrary evidence, Hagan claims he has been unable to find evidence that Edward Coon was a famous cheese maker, contending that the name came instead from a black wraparound in which it was originally sold. In 2008 he was reported to be `` questioning the makers of Coon cheese about the origin of the brand name ''. Hagan claimed that Edward Coon was an obscure factory hand who was induced to subscribe his name to the patent for cheese manufacture, yet had no explanation for Edward Coon 's ownership of many dairy factories. In popular culture Black British comedian Stephen K. Amos regularly performs a skit on Coon Cheese as part of his live show, due to the word `` Coon '' also being an ethnic slur used for black people. References ^ Jump up to : Coon Cheese -- The Full Coon Story Archived 4 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine. at coon.com.au Jump up ^ `` Abstract from Process for ripening cheese ''. US Patent 1,579,196. Google Patents. Jump up ^ Reports of the Tax Court of the United States, vol. 21 ( 1954 ), p. 543 : `` Among the assets acquired from Coon was United States Patent No. 1,579,196, issued to Edward William Coon on March 30, 1926. The patent covered a process for curing cheddar cheese at specified ranges of temperature and humidity. '' Jump up ^ Lucius Lincoln Van Slyke, Walter Van Price, Cheese : a treatise on the manufacture of American Cheddar cheese and some other varieties ( New York : Orange Judd Publishing Company Inc., 1952 edition ) p. 296 : `` He cited the process patented by Coon ( 1926 ) for producing the black, wax - coated cheese which was known in the trade as ' Coon Cheese '. '' Jump up ^ USPTO Jump up ^ Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, vol. 181 ( 1912 ), p. 535 : `` Coon, Edward W., Philadelphia, Pa. Cheese. No. 87857 ''. Jump up ^ John Harvey Treat, The Treat family : a genealogy of Trott, Tratt, and Treat for fifteen generations, and four hundred and fifty years in England and America ( 1893 ) ( pp. 319 -- 320 ) Jump up ^ ' League Buys Five Plants in Jefferson County ', in The Journal and Republican of Lowville dated August 30, 1923, online ^ Jump up to : Coon, Edward William ( 30 March 1926 ). `` Process for Ripening Cheese '' ( pdf ). Patent No 1579196. United States Patent Office. Retrieved 23 January 2013. Jump up ^ National Butter and Cheese Journal, vol. 25 ( 1934 ), p. 27 : `` Edward W. Coon, 62, prominent cheese dealer of Philadelphia, Pa., and Capp Vincent, NY, died suddenly January 12, at Philadelphia following a heart attack. Before becoming a cheese dealer, Mr. Coon owned a string of 14 cheese factories in Jefferson County, NY ''. Jump up ^ `` E.W. Coon Dead ; Once Operated Fourteen Cheese Factories in Northern New York and Big Warehouse at Cape Vincent ''. The journal and Republican. Lowville, New York. 1 February 1934. p. 8. Retrieved 30 May 2017. Jump up ^ `` Activist is hunting for cheese ''. The Daily Telegraph. Sydney, Australia. 27 September 2008. p. 2. Jump up ^ The racist name blame game dated 24 October 2008 at abc.net.au Jump up ^ Stephen K. 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Question: where did the name coon cheese come from
Answer: named after its American creator