Tillamook cheese has gotten into a legal tug of war over beef jerky. According to the Oregon Register Guard, The cheesemaker has taken legal action to prevent Tillamook Country Smoker from using the Tillamook name, and now the meat company is firing back.
Despite the fact that one of the smoker's owners is a dairy farmer whose family belongs to the creamery cooperative, partner Dick Crossley says the company received a "cease and desist" letter from the cheese maker in 2002, ordering it to stop using the name "Tillamook."