Cheese? More like refined plastic!

jay-me

Is it just me or is the overpriced refined plastic that is supposed to be cheese a far fling from the cheddar of my youth? I thought it was down to my confused memories until today when I randomly tasted some grated cheese in a salad. It was the same amazing cheese I remembered from days long gone.. The sort of cheese that put the 3.99 for ten slices of Charlevillle you get these days to shame!

Sadly the place I got the salad couldn't tell me where they had got the cheese but said I could pop in during the week and try find out again.

The best cheese to be found is between your toes.


Delicious and free.

Cheese has gotten more expensive, like everything else. Stop buying the cheap stuff.

Steve O

Edz87 wrote: »

The best cheese to be found is between your toes.


Delicious and free.

Wrong, the best cheese is cock cheese.

Ihatecuddles-old

Goats cheese is the best. And brie, and camembert...mmm cheese

boomtown123

Wexford cheddar....yum

belcampprisoner

some cheeses are made from oil no milk

Sarky

There was a lot of dairy microbiology in my H.dip. Essentially, making processed cheese is like making beer by sweeping up the soggy sawdust on an old bar floor and squeezing it into a glass until you have a pint. Then charging a fiver for the privilege.

kowloon

Port Salut. Where is your god now, eh?

toastedpickles

That moldy cheese can kill me

So I just avoid it as best I can, I like my life, it serves me well

jay-me

true-or-false wrote: »

Cheese has gotten more expensive, like everything else. Stop buying the cheap stuff.

3.99 for ten slices isn't cheap.. Also I'm not saying there isn't more expensive and thus better cheeses but there seems to be a serious difference in the quality of cheddar cheese that I used to eat and the crap that is sold today.

F1ngers

Steve O wrote: »

Wrong, the best cheese is cock cheese.

How often do you have "the best cheese"?

Chuck Stone

Cheeses, Mary and Joseph.

Duggys Housemate

jay-me wrote: »

Is it just me or is the overpriced refined plastic that is supposed to be cheese a far fling from the cheddar of my youth? I thought it was down to my confused memories until today when I randomly tasted some grated cheese in a salad. It was the same amazing cheese I remembered from days long gone.. The sort of cheese that put the 3.99 for ten slices of Charlevillle you get these days to shame!

Sadly the place I got the salad couldn't tell me where they had got the cheese but said I could pop in during the week and try find out again.

That plastic crap has always existed. In fact there had been an increase in good cheese since my youth - the 80's. I thought that all cheese was plastic.

kingcobra

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Cheeses, Mary and Joseph.

That comment is a bit too cheesy for my liking

uberalles

Sliced cheese is sprayed with something to keep it fresh Ive heard.

Best not to buy sliced cheese?

Victor

jay-me wrote: »

Cheese? More like refined plastic!

You do know that they are individually wrapped? Yes? :pac:

Sarky wrote: »

There was a lot of dairy microbiology in my H.dip. Essentially, making processed cheese is like making beer by sweeping up the soggy sawdust on an old bar floor and squeezing it into a glass until you have a pint. Then charging a fiver for the privilege.

Much of the cheese slices / processed cheese market is made up of cheese blended with other dairy products. Disturbingly, I saw a product in Tesco referred to as 'Cheese Food'.

Steve O

F1ngers wrote: »

How often do you have "the best cheese"?

There's always a heavy buildup after a hangover horn.

Nodster

nothing but the best fillet of cheddar in chateau du nod

admiralofthefleet

boomtown123 wrote: »

Wexford cheddar....yum

lovely cheese and on special in dunnes at the moment

Capt'n Midnight

You're not wrong about cheesy plastic
http://www.plastiquarian.com/index.php?id=60A

Casein plastics were introduced at the beginning of the 20th century, their starting material being the protein in cows milk, precipitated by the action of the enzyme rennin.
...
As well as buttons and buckles, casein was also used for knitting pins, fountain pen and propelling pencil barrels, dressing table ware and a host of other items.

And because it's AH

The first Russian factory for artificial horn was started up in1928 at Mnewniki, near Moscow.

carzony

I had some 'supervalu sliced cheese' a while ago and it really did feel and taste like cardboard. Anyone like cheesestrings? I love them

donegal_road

uberalles wrote: »

Sliced cheese is sprayed with something to keep it fresh Ive heard.

Best not to buy sliced cheese?

years back, a friend of mine worked in a cheese production plant near Limavady. He said he would never eat cheese slices again.

kraggy

Ardagh grated cheddar in Aldi is delicious and reasonably priced at 2.99 for a big bag.

IM0

carzony wrote: »

I had some 'supervalu sliced cheese' a while ago and it really did feel and taste like cardboard. Anyone like cheesestrings? I love them

you do realise that cheese strings are about as much cheese as udders and testicles, thats 4%

PickledLime

IM0 wrote: »

you do realise that cheese strings are about as much cheese as udders and testicles, thats 4%

I once worked with a lad who subsisted entirely on Red Bull and Cheesestrings. He took quit a few sick days, unsurprisingly.

Gorgonzola melted onto a homemade pizza - bliss

carzony

IM0 wrote: »

you do realise that cheese strings are about as much cheese as udders and testicles, thats 4%

:eek: I'v often eaten 24 of them in one go

Jordan 199

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4nBkfLboSo

hfallada

Apparently since Irish incomes have risen since the 1970 Irish cheddar is the only grocery item that we still spend the same proportion of income on

thunderdog

hfallada wrote: »

Apparently since Irish incomes have risen since the 1970 Irish cheddar is the only grocery item that we still spend the same proportion of income on

I'm taking all my money out of bitcoins and investing in cheese

harry Bailey esq

kraggy wrote: »

Ardagh grated cheddar in Aldi is delicious and reasonably priced at 2.99 for a big bag.

yep that's a nice strong cheddar,only decent stuff at that price.dunnes have a good range of English cheddars too,the proper stuff but it can be pricey

hatrickpatrick

Within four posts this thread took a far more bizarre and disturbing turn than I would have imagined possible.

AH, nice to know you can still surprise me.

stefan idiot jones

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

Goats cheese is the best. And brie, and camembert...mmm cheese

The best cheese I ever had was from the farmers market in Ballina where I bought honey goats cheese, balsamic pickled onions and sun dried tomato bread.
I couldn't inject it into me quickly enough.
p.s. sun dried tomatoes are the greatest food on earth.

Catphish

stefan idiot jones wrote: »

The best cheese I ever had was from the farmers market in Ballina where I bought honey goats cheese, balsamic pickled onions and sun dried tomato bread.
I couldn't inject it into me quickly enough.
p.s. sun dried tomatoes are the greatest food on earth.

+1 on cheese from the farmers markets. Got some goats cheese a while back and it was unbelievable.

Swordfish trombone

uberalles wrote: »

Sliced cheese is sprayed with something to keep it fresh Ive heard.

Best not to buy sliced cheese?

Great stuff for getting dog hair off the sofa, though.

woodchuck

The pre-sliced stuff is rubbish. You should buy a block and cut your own slices. It costs about the same, but you get way more for your money and it tastes miles better.

admiralofthefleet

Catphish wrote: »

+1 on cheese from the farmers markets. Got some goats cheese a while back and it was unbelievable.

got some chilli cheese at a farmers market in cahir a couple of years ago, id nearly get the train down just to get more

zef

If you buy cheapo frozen pizzas/ lasanage etc they are likely to contain a white "cheese-like" substance which is 100% cheese-free.
Saw it on Channel4s "Food unwrapped"- it looks like white cheese but has absolutely no taste at all to it, used to bulk out 'real' cheese on pizza.
That's not the most offputting one tho'- I'll never eat any 'pro-biotics' again after watching that programme.

zef

stefan idiot jones wrote: »

The best cheese I ever had was from the farmers market in Ballina where I bought honey goats cheese, balsamic pickled onions and sun dried tomato bread.
I couldn't inject it into me quickly enough.
p.s. sun dried tomatoes are the greatest food on earth.

Sun-dried tomatoes are lovely- but have you seen how many products contain "sun- ripened tomatoes'.
Sure what the **** else would they be ripening in?

Anyone

awec

Loads of good cheeses in supermarkets in Ireland.

If you're paying 4 euro for 10 slices of the pre-sliced crap then more fool you.

Capt'n Midnight

zef wrote: »

Sun-dried tomatoes are lovely- but have you seen how many products contain "sun- ripened tomatoes'.
Sure what the **** else would they be ripening in?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AsbestosFreeCereal

johnr1

Lately I'm buying the better block type cheeses in Lidl. Their reeeely cheap stuff is pure plastic, but the extra mature Cheddar in the ziplock bags (purplish bag -can't remember the brand and not home to check) is top absolutely drawer.
Tesco is one place I've found it impossible to buy good cheese. Anything except Kilmeaden or Dubliner there is rubbish.

cloud493

I just hate cheese :cool:

Equium

cloud493 wrote: »

I just hate cheese :cool:

No one gives Edam.

One of my local butchers imports the nicest smoked cheese that I have ever tasted. It's quite expensive though, so Aldi's Bavarian equivalent is an acceptable cheap (if a little processed) alternative.

Anyone

Anyone wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVKCHZqax84

Freddy Smelly

Edz87 wrote: »

The best cheese to be found is between your toes under the foreskin.


Delicious and free.

i think is what ya meant :eek:

Ruudi_Mentari

but that cheese is like a delicacy, in parts of uhm.. merikay?

sometimes even the best burgers call for it. they say pls! with the cheesewhizz.

Lucena

Shur didn't Radiohead write a song about this very subject. 'Fake Plastic Cheese' it was called.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKd06s1LNik

Mr Benevolent

Not another 'bejaysus shure it was far better in my day' thread. You're just buying cheap cheese, OP.

Freddy Smelly

Mr Benevolent wrote: »

Not another 'bejaysus shure it was far better in my day' thread. You're just buying cheap cheese, OP.

he is still waiting for his free cheese from the government