Was watching a vid of a $1,300.00 round parmigiano cheese being cracked open. Man was useing knives and splitting that goodness like a wedge in a tree when felling it. Cant imagine how long it had aged and, they must use some type of wax for its outer shell. Freshly born, samples were givin to customers to taste. It simply had to be perfect. I am reminded of a 800 pound block of cheese on display at Jungle Jims in Fairfield, Ohio. Largest cheese I have ever seen. Now I learn Jungle Jims in Eastgate, Ohio brings out a huge cheese every 18 months to slab off some for their customers. Dont know what kind of cheese that is but its got to be good. I think I will go there when they next slice it. What do you think of cheese?

I once got drunk with a Scotsman at a bar. While we were smoking cigarettes he said something like this: "I've been all around the world. I've made love to many a beautiful woman. I've tried cocaine, heroin and LSD. And nothing, nothing, NOTHING on God's green earth is half as good as cheese." That sums up how good cheese is neatly.

Back in the day, I preferred "Jungle Pam"!

Cheese is my junk food.

I’m all about cheese of all kinds.

I love a nice room temp Saint Andre triple-creme Brie with some bread and red wine but also love a big old slice or two of Velveeta melted on a burger. No cheddar or other cheeses for me on a burger, it’s got to be American!

^^^Uhh, Velveeta and 'American' are NOT cheese!

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Originally posted by nhracecraft:
^^^Uhh, Velveeta and 'American' are NOT cheese!

But to me it’s perfect in just two things:

Burgers
Mac & Cheese

macaroni and cheese made with cheddar is always grainy to me, you never have that nice smooth creamy texture like you get with American cheese.

I watched that same video yesterday. I heard one of the spectators ask the age and he said 48 months.

Sigh. So many cheeses, so little time. And my calorie ceiling is so low nowadays.

The wife and I will occasionally make a meal out of cheese, meat, olives, pickled seasoned artichoke hearts, mushrooms or what ever we have in the pantry


Aged Manchego, BellaVitano, aged Gouda and aged white Cheddars are my favorites. A nice Chianti, Garnacha or other deep red with some Iberico ham, hard Salami and Prosciutto


I think it's about time for this again

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Originally posted by ammodotcom:
I once got drunk with a Scotsman at a bar. While we were smoking cigarettes he said something like this: "I've been all around the world. I've made love to many a beautiful woman. I've tried cocaine, heroin and LSD. And nothing, nothing, NOTHING on God's green earth is half as good as cheese." That sums up how good cheese is neatly.

That was excellent ammod...

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Originally posted by Sailor1911:
Back in the day, I preferred "Jungle Pam"!

Its a huge pair of grocery stores which stock products from around the globe. You can taste wines, sample foods. They even got a giant section just for cigars. I bet they got 300 different kinds of cheese.

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Originally posted by Redleg06:
I watched that same video yesterday. I heard one of the spectators ask the age and he said 48 months.

There is a sharp made in Pulaski, NY which is aged to 48 months and some that goes to 6 or 8 years. Its called River Rat and a shy expensive.

My kids love aged Gouda. I recently discovered that Costco sells 20 month aged Gouda for a good price. A friend of mine brings back some delicious Cheddar when he goes to Wisconsin. A good portion of it never seems to survive the trip back.

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Originally posted by PASig:

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Originally posted by nhracecraft:
^^^Uhh, Velveeta and 'American' are NOT cheese!

But to me it’s perfect in just two things:

Burgers
Mac & Cheese

Velveeta is also great in queso. Perfect in fact.

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Originally posted by Loswsmith:


Velveeta is also great in queso. Perfect in fact.

Yes and I recall that when Chipotle tried to market their own Queso it was regarded as pretty awful at first because they tried to only use cheeses like Cheddar and Colby until someone was like "dummies...just use Velveeta like everyone else does!"

Chipotle's recovery hopes melt with 'gritty' queso

I can remember as a youngster, Mother getting long packages of sliced cheese from the gubbermint. Pre food stamps era and she was raising 4 kids in her own. That was some damn good flavored American cheese which later some yahoo thought it wise to dump in the ocean. You cant do that!

Among my favorite snacks is Vermont extra sharp cheddar sliced and eaten off a knife with sliced raw garlic. Flavors from Heaven.