Originally posted by Rupert Norm, what you are saying is that we need to take the alcohol out of beer, wine, and other spirits because it is only an enhancer? Let's see how many votes that will get you?
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As you'll note, that's what you Americans do. Or as we say up here.
" If the beer is too strong for you, get the heck out out of Canada. "
You've got this all backwards.
Alcohol isn't the enhancer, alcohol is the product.
Originally posted by Rupert I think you are just angry
because I awakened you to the fact you have been getting cheated all these years with crooked cheese sellers that have shorted you those fantastic enhancers. Go down and get yourself a few boxes of Velveeta and start making up for your loss. You will love the delicious creamy flavor and as a side benefit, squirrels love to eat the boxes.
Regards!
And I think you've deluded yourself into thinking fillers are enhancers. Fillers are just cheap stuff you add to the good stuff. You take advantage of the superior taste and nutrition of the good stuff by thinning it out with tasteless, nutrient weak, fillers. It's like adding water to beer.
There is nothing in a Velveeta bottle that compares in any way to an aged cheddar. In fact, I'm starting to wonder if you ever tasted a properly aged cheese. I'm starting to think this whole conversation is based on the fact that I lived for 9 years within 5 mile of a world famous cheese factory, you must have lived near a small corner grocery or something. It's all about we've learned to think is "acceptable."
While you might think Vleveeta is more a "common man" kind of thing, and therefore socially preferred, there are great numbers of us for whom, Velveeta is as un-acceptable for us, than an aged Balderson Cheddar is to you. For us, Velveeta is imitation cheese. It's not the real thing, and that's what the label says. It's not cheese, it's "Cheese Spread."