Since we’re talking about yesterday’s cheese exploits, I might as well add that after lunch we hit the grocery store and among the spoils (should I refer to groceries as spoils? hmm…) were a big bag of cheddar, two small bags of “Mexican Blend” (Hello taco dinner!) , and one block of cream cheese.

Thought you ought to know.

A couple of weeks ago, we won a free-lunch-for-two at First Watch (another one of those corporate breakfast and lunch  places – see also Scrambler Marie’s, Sunny Side Cafe, etc.) as a door prize at our high school’s International Potluck Supper.  We finally got around to using it yesterday so naturally, I ordered this:

Cheese to the 5th Degree

Swiss, Havarti, Monterey Jack and Cheddar cheeses melted between grilled Parmesan-crusted sourdough bread.

Here’s a couple of pictures click on them to load up the originals.

You can’t make this stuff up. Well, maybe you can, but really…

The Irish Times is reporting:

THE DEPARTMENT of Agriculture has raised concerns with the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) about a proposal to restrict the advertising of cheese to children on television.

Further reading produces this gem:

The Irish Farmers’ Association criticised the classification system cited in the report, which classifies cheddar cheese in the same bracket as french fries, biscuits, cakes, and pizzas, and deems it “less healthy” than diet coke.

Area Development Online shares news that

Glanbia Foods, a cheese manufacturer, will invest at least $10 million to build a new corporate headquarters and innovation center in Twin Falls, Idaho.

This is good news in this struggling economy of ours. Indeed, Glanbia’s CEO, Jeff Williams had this to say about it:

As we have grown, and as needs in the cheese market change, it was essential to address two critical items.

See the article for the rest of Jeff’s statement.

I have to admit that I’m a little weirded out by the idea that cheese is ‘Manufactured” but I’ll get over it.

WisBusiness.com reports that the Dairy Pricing Association is going to “donate 2,000 pounds of cheddar cheese to Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin.”

The donation to Second Harvest will be fifty 40-pound blocks of cheddar cheese. Once received, volunteers will split the blocks of cheese into two-pound, family-size portions that will be distributed through a network of partner agencies to thousands of individuals, families, children and seniors who struggle with hunger.

PanArmenian Net reports on Armenia’s annual cheese production, and it’s relationship with the Russia, The European Union, and the U.S.A.

According to Armenian producers, Armenia outputs 17 thous. tons of cheese yearly, of which 200-400 tons are exported. Over 25 sorts of cheese are produced in Armenia, such as chanakh, lori, suluguni etc.

We here at They Come with Cheese have been a fan of Jess Hagy’s Indexed for quite a while now. We’ve had a link to it in our Links box almost since day one.

From time to time there’s fodder for the blog:

Back in mid-2010, Subway announced that it would begin tessellating cheese on sandwiches, instead of their traditional cheese orientation.  Here’s Gawker’s report on the subject.

You will measure your life before and after this moment. After years of merely overlapping triangular pieces of cheese on their sandwiches, cruelly loading one side with more than the other, Subway will now tessellate the slices, according to Consumerist.

 

Well I’m here to tell you that cheese tessellation compliance is spotty.  I’m not sure whether it is dependent on the franchise or on the artist crafting my sandwiches, but I would say that unscientifically, I’ve been getting a  0.4 tessellation factor on my sandwiches, across all of the Subways in my sample set – approximately 2.

Here’s a link to somebodies web site where they have a transcript of the Cheese Shop sketch from Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

Vai ABC East SA we get the news that an Australian Cheese producer will be increasing production:

Warrnambool Cheese and Butter will produce an extra 4,000 tonnes of cheese a year under a five-year deal with Coles supermarkets.

This is a boon to dairy farmers because

The president of the South Australian Dairy Farmers Association, David Basham, says an extra 50 million litres of milk will need to be sourced each year.