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Haha yes, mustn't digress!

Enjoy that yummy cheese, can just imagine it with a fresh baguette.... Try melting the maroilles on sauté potatoes, that's extremely yummy too...

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Okanagan's Choice cheese (it says packed by Castle Cheese, Lumby BC) is very good and I get it at Super Valu in Oliver. I discovered it last year and am glad they still stock it.
Re: meat My late friend Wilson the chef from Wallacey used to cook for the Sask Legislature in winter and the Wascana Golf & Country Club in summer and he believed human beings required no more than 4 oz of meat per day. When the club hosted Roughrider dinners he'd have to prepare steaks weighing between 16 - 36 oz and he was amazed at how some of those big defensive linemen could put them away. Amazed, but disgusted. :blink:

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Ok, keeping with the cheese theme on the cheese thread...are there any cheeses you dislike? I once had the misfortune to try a brownish looking concoction from Norway. Awful stuff, but they called it cheese.

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Ground beef and frozen chicken breasts (3kg box $15-$20) can go a long way with pasta and rice dishes.

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I thought Jarlsberg was rubbish, but maybe it wasn't a good sample. Edam...what's the point of that? Cheese for babies? :lol:

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Those two are rubbish^^

I don't like any of the cheese that comes in little packets in the supermarket, it usually tastes like crap. The shredded cheese that you put on tacos has no taste to it.

I've only tasted 3 or 4 good Canadian cheeses. The rest have been imported:thumbup:

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That would be German butter cheese! Edam is good, they're almost all good; I used butter cheese instead of mozza once on pizza in the bar because that's what I had and it was great.

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Strong flavoured cheeses are the way to go... can't quite see the point of those "plastic" cheeses!

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Just wondering what you mean by plastic cheese. Vacuum packed stuff? It's fine in the UK, it's just that most of it is so tasteless over here.

What gets me is that back there you could rely on a 'Canadian' cheese as being between 'tasty' and mature. What do they do, export the good stuff?

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In Britain "Canadian" is just used to describe a sharp British cheddar. It is a bit ironic that most of the cheddars in Canada fall well short of the mark.

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And 'sharp' cheddar over here, while having plenty of flavour, doesn't seem to match what is in the UK. Too salty.

Not to mention orange. :lol:

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I dislike the massively processed cheeses that you get in north america... both those fake kraft cheese slices, which aren't cheese, but also the bricks of Cracker Barrel and the like... that isn't cheese.

Jarlsberg is one of my favourites... Edam I'm not nuts about... Favourites go to cambozola and really sharp cheddars. Had some lovely jarlsberg and stilton last night with crackers. nomnomnom. Cranberry cheddar is also excellent. I particularly like cheddars that have the little salt crystals in them... oh, and I had beemster dutch cheese fir the first time last week, I'm pretty sure I could have eaten the whole wedge in one sitting.

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Camembert would be at the top of my list...it kinda melts in your mouth!

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No it isn't! Tesco sells Canadian cheese made in Canada.

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You know your life is a lucky one when you can look at vintage cheese related pictures and post about it, at length, on tinterwebnet.