response: Yeah, and buyers would negotiate a price through "handjeklap" after sampling the cheese.
original_response: Yes, it was def. named after the dutch city. they had a way of trading, called handjeklap. they would clap each others hands while shouting prices.
history: hello  i like the taste of cheese. cheese taste so gouda  :) Neat, gouda's meaning is the cheese from Gouda, which is at the Netherlands. It's also a mild, yellow cheese that gets made from cow's milk. from milk? for some reason I always thought it was made from goat's milk Can't say about that but Gouda is one of the super popular cheese around the world. very popular and very tasty without being overpowering Did you also hear how Gouda cheese was first mentioned in 1184? It is one of the oldest recorded cheese that still gets made. that old, i figured maybe cheddar is older but I am not an expert Another thing about Gouda cheese is that while its named after the city of Gouda, it is not due to being made around the city but because it was traded there historically. So it was named after a city, I thought it was named after a derivation of the word ''good''
knowledge: Buyers then sampled the cheeses and negotiated a price using a ritual system called ''handjeklap'' in which buyers and sellers clap each other's hands and shout prices.