Reading this was like I was reading a Swindon news site!:

California Police Seize 375 Pounds Of Bathtub Cheese

A Southern California couple is facing criminal charges after allegedly being caught with 375 pounds of “bathtub” cheese at an open-air market in San Bernardino County, the California Department of Food and Agriculture says.

The illegal soft cheese products are known to cause serious illness such as listeria, salmonella or E. coli.


Floribel Hernandez Cuenca, 29, and Manuel Martin Sanchez Garrido, 44, of Montclair, were arrested for selling a variety of unlicensed cheeses to the public. Ms. Cuenca was also arrested on felony cheese making charges.


The 375 pounds of seized illegal cheese included panela, queso fresco and queso oxaca varieties, the CDFA says. It was a significant find, the department says.


“Illegally produced is cheese is serious threat to public health,” says CDFA Secretary A.G. Kawamura.
[www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com]

And Jasper predicts the future yet again!

Apologies to the US FM's, but whenever I've been there seems to be only two types of cheese available 'Swiss' and I can't remember the other one???

Cheddar!

Flavoured-Yellow-McPlastic-Pressed-into-Flat-Squares-and-Wrapped-with-More-Plastic(TM) like we have in Oz? (NOTHING better for a guilt-ridden cheese toasty)

True, for cheese on toast etc the rubberiest cheese is the best.

I never knew that stuff was meant to be cheese Kitten! I thought it was a strange new plastic sandwich fettish

I thought that was "cheese food"-
how edible can it be if you have to annouce that it's food on the label?

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Velveeta and anything that has "cheez" on the label.

My dad gets something at Costco called "Irish Cheese" it is deee-licious but I have not yet looked at the label to confirm the origin!

I am amazed at how some things are considered to be food!

Fluro coloured things should not be eaten!! Especially chemical residues like cordials...

And another thing!
Why don't photographers get you to say "Cheese" anymore?

Nowadays it's all, "Say, 'Holidays!'" or some such rubbish. "Holidays" has some perfectly horrendous mouth movements in it - catch everybody in the first syllable and you've got a group of goldfish sucking air - whereas the whole of "cheese" requires a smile-like mouth movement.

I once had a panoramic photograph taken of a very large group that I was with, using a special (truly panoramic) camera that would pan slowly across the group. Since this took considerably more time than an ordinary photo, they told us to say "Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" and hold it until the shot was done. (There were also some kids on the starting end got to duck down and run behind the group over to the other end, so they appeared in the photo twice.)

No way!

MS's story about the kids running to the other end of the photo reminded me of this -
if the poulation of China paraded past you, walking eight abreast, the parade would never end because of the birth rate. Or, if you like, the first row of eight would be back in China and there would still be people in the marshalling area, waiting to start.

Sounds really cool! I've never heard of a photo like that before...

Back to Cheese:

My father liked Blue Vein cheese.

I am of the opinion that anything with a life of its own should be put down before being eaten..... as these things gave me a fear of being sabotaged from within and eventually discovering that my internals had been converted to a cheese byproduct which would eventually take over Australia if not the world.

I never considered these things to be suitable food for a civilised race, let alone Australians.

Urgh. Sock cheese. All my family bar me adore it.
The worst bit is, you can smell it coming out of their skin the next day!

Actually, when I didn't eat dairy foods, I could smell it when other people had the same way (like with garlic). Now that I do have dairy foods, I can't. I must smell like milk now too!

Weird, no?

Yes, I know! I don't have very much dairy at all, no milk, hate cream & butter. Eat mini amount of cheese or yogurt from time to time, very rare these days. You can definitely smell it on people- weird and people don't believe you!

Obviously some of our fforumites, such as the two preceding entries, are of such pure disposition that milk and milk products may be smelled as emanating from them.

Do you mean you wash as well?

How do go with a good garlicy lasagne?