Poll
Question:
What kind of cheese is your favorite?
Option 1: Cheddar
Option 2: Monterey Jack
Option 3: Colby
Option 4: Colby-Jack
Option 5: Muenster
Option 6: Provologne
Option 7: Pepperjack
Option 8: Swiss
Option 9: Mozzarella
Option 10: American
Option 11: Farmer Cheese
Option 12: Gouda
Option 13: Limburger
Option 14: Cream Cheese
Option 15: Feta Cheese
Option 16: Pimento Cheese
Option 17: Brie
Option 18: Havarti
Option 19: Parmesan
Option 20: Romano
Option 21: Gorgonzola
Option 22: Camembert
Option 23: Asiago
Option 24: Ricotta
Option 25: Easy Cheese
Option 26: Velveeta Cheese
Option 27: Cheese Whiz
Option 28: I don't like cheese
Well, I've already tackled milk...
Now it's time for cheese! :teddyr:
I know that there are hundreds of different kinds of cheese but I thought I'd narrow the list down to the types of cheeses most people regularly eat.
I voted for Mozzarella....awesome stuff! :thumbup:
I buy those big rectangular hunks of Mozzarella and cut off thin slices with my pocket knife.
Sometimes, I'll buy a bag of Kraft shredded Mozzarella and eat it all right out of the bag.
It was a close tie with Swiss though. There's nothing better than some stinky Swiss cheese.
The stinkier Swiss cheese is...the better.
I debated whether or not to include White American cheese.
Even though I love the taste of it and it is a bit different than regular yellow American cheese, I've always jokingly referred to it as "The official cheese of the Ku Klux Klan." :tongueout:
So I didn't include it.
How about you?
I don't like cheese unless it's on something like pizza or a taco, then I don't really notice which kind unless it stinks.
Colby! I like Parmesan on spagehtti,and mozzarella on lasanga, american on grilled chesse sandwhiches,pepperjack on roast beef sandwhiches,and velveeta on mac+cheese,with Lousiana Hot Sauce!!!
Now,my brother Glenn likes blue cheese,which to me smells like dirty socks.BLEECH!!!
Goat cheese is real good! When I was a little kid,an old Russian woman named Motka(Russian for Mother) made home-made goat cheese,which she served with some ass kick home-made cherry wine,and gulumpkis(stuffed cabbage)! YUMMY!!!
I went with Mozzarella. Just love the stuff.
What? No Camembert?
AlexB...it's on the list...down near the bottom.
I like all cheeses really, but I put pepper jack because I like spicy cheese. Those Italian cheeses are all good just like their movies. Went to Cabots Creamery Factory (http://www.cabotcheese.com/f1.php?left=menu-visit.html&right=visit.html) in Vermont and took the tour and at the end you could sample cheese.
How about a grilled cheese sandwich?
(http://www.southphillyblocks.org/photos_essays/grilled_cheese/009wool3-1_jpg.jpg)
I voted for Swiss, 'cuz that's what I eat most of. Particularly, an Oscar Mayer Bun-Length wiener, wrapped in a slice of Food Lion Swiss cheese, in a Martin's potato role. Nuke it & drown it in catsup, and it tastes just like a pizza. Being a bachelor with a deficit in culinary skills, a cheese dog has pretty much been my breakfast, lunch & dinner every day for the last ten years, and I'm still not bored with it.
Of course, Mozzarella on a pizza, or American on a burger, or Chedder on fajitas is always good.
Cheeze Whiz...just cause it's the closest thing to "nacho" on the list. :thumbup:
Quote from: zombiedudeman on December 09, 2006, 02:42:19 AM
Cheeze Whiz...just cause it's the closest thing to "nacho" on the list. :thumbup:
I believe Nacho is really melted Cheddar with either picante or salsa sauce... or at least that's how they made back when I lived in Texas.
Pepperjack, since that's the one I use the most when I make sandwiches. Swiss is a close second.
But mostly I like cheese in or on stuff like others have said: pizzas, tacos, lasagna, in rotel dip, etc. Cheese is an ingredient, not something I eat on its own or as the main item.
Cheddar slivers and jalapeno slices microwaved over nachos is a favorite quick snack.
This poll makes me think of the Monty Python cheese shop sketch, lots of cheeses named, no actual cheese to be found.
Oops, I must have missed that. Anyway, it has got one vote now.
Quote from: LilCerberus on December 09, 2006, 03:03:17 AM
Quote from: zombiedudeman on December 09, 2006, 02:42:19 AM
Cheeze Whiz...just cause it's the closest thing to "nacho" on the list. :thumbup:
I believe Nacho is really melted Cheddar with either picante or salsa sauce... or at least that's how they made back when I lived in Texas.
My favorite recipe for nachos is cheddar and chipotle pepper jack with jalapeno chiles over tortilla chips, pop it in the microwave for 30-40 seconds and you have food fit for a king and of course a bottle of beer with this is nice.
This is another one of those things my doctor says will kill me so I don't get to enjoy this as often as I would like to, just occasionally
like once or twice a year.
There again like with the milk, I don't think there's a chesse on there that I haven't tried at one time or the other, including the limburger, which I am somewhat surprised to see listed, as who eats anything that smelly besides myself.
My parents, this was before I was born, had a cat, they had some limburger sitting on the counter in their kitchen, the cat, dislking the smell of the limburger, dragged the limburger off of the kitchen counter and behind the stove, where she proceeded to spray it thoroughly. Which, of course, made the limburger inedible.
Out here in Longmont, we have a store called The Cheese Emporium, which has things inside that would baffle John Cleese -- and you should know the skit I mean!
We have goat cheese made with wine and pecans, Stilton with ginger bits in (THIS is really extraordinary), Red Lechester with port wine, cheese made with whiskey, sheep cheese from Crete -- I could go on for pages/you get the picture.
Some of this you wouldn't throw at someone cutting you off in traffic -- other of it, and of course this is the very pricey stuff, is like heaven exploded in your mouth.
Here's to variety! And, oh, I voted Gorgonzola as I didn't see Venezuelan Beaver . . .
peter johnson/denny crane
Gouda -- love the smoky flavor.
I noticed cottage cheese isn't listed. It,s good with Lousiana Hot Sauce.LARGE curd, of course. Cream cheese on a REAL New York garlic and onion bagal! People in Michigan(At least in this neck of the woods) cannot make Bagals like a NYC Deli!!!
I've never been all that fond of cheese. I'll eat a Kraft slice here and there, but the only "real" cheese I will eat on occasion is Havarti. As for melted cheese, I can only stomach it on nachos and pizza. Everyone I know just loves melted cheese on everything, but I just can't stand it. Once, I had over 500 pounds of cheese fall on me, pushing me to the ground and twisting my leg. I was gimping around for weeks. After the "cheese incident" as my friends call it, I have even less appreciation for this particular diary product. :wink:
You had 500 pounds of cheese fall on you?
More details!
I wanna hear about getting squished by 500 pounds of cheese too!!! C'mon! Were all adults here!(If not emotionally,at least in physical years...)
LOL Ok, here it goes, but it ain't much.
A few years back I worked for a company that specialized in food delivery, where I would drop off food to restaurants in the middle of the night. Burger King was our biggest account, but we had others, including Papa Murphy's Pizza. They would get these big 50 lb boxes of cheese.
Well, one night I was helping another driver with his route and we were at one of these Papa Murphy's places. Since we drove around in a tractor/trailer big rig, all the food had to be loaded on handcarts and moved down a ramp from the trailer. Well, I loaded up about ten boxes of this cheese and made my way down to the bottom of the ramp. There I stopped to adjust the load and when I pulled back on the cart to go again (with the other guy pushing on it from the other side since it was so damn heavy I could not seem to get it pulled onto its wheels by myself), I pulled too hard (or he pushed too hard) and all that cheese just pushed me flat to the ground. Since my leg was still extended part way up the ramp, it just folded under me with a sickening twist. After that I had to leave that job and was gimping around for the better part of two months.
It's one of those days I will always remember because aside from that happening, I was rear-ended on my way to work that night and the next day was 9/11.
I voted for Havarti, but one of my favorites is not on the list. Being from Kentucky, we have native treat known as beer cheese. It is primarily used as a dip or spread, but I love the stuff. Anybody else ever tried it?