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Cheese? More like refined plastic!

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  • 04-05-2013 11:30pm
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    jay-me
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    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.


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    [Deleted User]
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    The best cheese to be found is between your toes.


    Delicious and free.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Cheese has gotten more expensive, like everything else. Stop buying the cheap stuff.


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    Steve O
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    Edz87 wrote: »
    The best cheese to be found is between your toes.


    Delicious and free.


    Wrong, the best cheese is cock cheese.


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    Ihatecuddles-old
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    Goats cheese is the best. And brie, and camembert...mmm cheese :)


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    boomtown123
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    Wexford cheddar....yum :)


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    belcampprisoner
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    some cheeses are made from oil no milk


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    Sarky
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    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.


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    kowloon
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    Port Salut. Where is your god now, eh?


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    #10
    toastedpickles
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    That moldy cheese can kill me

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


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    jay-me
    Registered Users Posts: 1,002 ✭✭✭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.


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    F1ngers
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    Steve O wrote: »
    Wrong, the best cheese is cock cheese.

    How often do you have "the best cheese"? ;)


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    Chuck Stone
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    Cheeses, Mary and Joseph.


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    Duggys Housemate
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    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.


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    kingcobra
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    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    Cheeses, Mary and Joseph.

    That comment is a bit too cheesy for my liking


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

    Best not to buy sliced cheese?


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    Victor
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    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'.


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    Steve O
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    F1ngers wrote: »
    How often do you have "the best cheese"? ;)


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


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    Nodster
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    nothing but the best fillet of cheddar in chateau du nod


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    admiralofthefleet
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    boomtown123 wrote: »
    Wexford cheddar....yum :)

    lovely cheese and on special in dunnes at the moment


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    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.


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    #22
    carzony
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    I had some 'supervalu sliced cheese' a while ago and it really did feel and taste like cardboard. Anyone like cheesestrings? I love them :D


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    donegal_road
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    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.


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


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    IM0
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    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 :D

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


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    PickledLime
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    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 :)


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    carzony
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    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


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    Jordan 199
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4nBkfLboSo


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    hfallada
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    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


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    thunderdog
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    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


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    harry Bailey esq
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    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


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