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- From: nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Velveeta (was Patrick Stewart & "Space Age")
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.214841.8685@reed.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 21:48:41 GMT
- Article-I.D.: reed.1992Nov17.214841.8685
- References: <1e9nj1INN4ep@mizar.usc.edu> <1992Nov17.053627.25536@reed.edu> <BxvCJ4.DCG@cs.vu.nl>
- Reply-To: nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar)
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- In article <BxvCJ4.DCG@cs.vu.nl> fjvwing@cs.vu.nl (FJ!!) writes:
- >Careful dear, some people think that eating velveeta is quite exotic
- >and shows affluence, as you can only get it in very selected import
- >shops here.
-
- Well, I admit that I've eaten Velveeta (TM) and enjoyed it. There's a
- quick and dirty sort of cheese dip you can make with it. (Down in
- Texas we call it "chile con queso", which is odd in that there's very
- little that's chile about it).
-
- The base for the gunk is a pound of Velveeta (TM) and a can of chopped
- Rotel tomatoes, melted together. I used to think it was pretty tasty.
- Last time I tried to eat it, it made me sick.
-
- If you're keeping track, I'm partial to mild brie-type cheeses. One of
- my favourite cheeses in the whole world is Cambozola, a double-cream
- brie with blue cheese mold infused in it. It has to be young, though -
- if Cambo gets old it begins to smell and taste like sweaty socks.
-
- Has anyone had success with Explorateur, an unpasturized triple cream
- brie? The stuff I had was rather odd, but I think it was too mature.
-
- I'm not big into cheddar. I do enjoy eating hard cheeses like good
- Parmesian plain. Soft port wine cheeses are yummy. In fact, I like
- most things except "swiss cheese" and strong cheddar.
-
- >Ok, I _am_ 'some people.' That wonderful Jim Turner sent me a jar of
- >the 'spread' version of velveeta, 'Cheez Whiz,' and I think it could be
- >a wonderful basis for a salad dressing. The taste is quite exotic to
- >me, there is nothing over here that emulates molten PVC to a degree
- >that edible.
-
- I like your molten PVC analogy, sounds about right. Frito-Lay
- (American junk food company) packages a cheese dip in little cans. You
- can heat it up and eat it straight out of the tin, it's quite noxious.
-
- I like Spaghettios, too. Little pasta circles canned with tomato-like
- sauce. For best effect it has to sit on the shelf for six months, so
- all that keeps the noodles from disintegrating completely are the
- chemicals placed in with the foodstuff.
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