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Disturbing Cheese Ads With Luis Guzmán And His Fellow "Cheddar Hunks"


Okay, we're just going to say it: calling men of a certain age "cheddar hunks" just sounds like they all smell like stinky feet. That's a table I want to stay far, far away from. Nevertheless, Cabot Cheese of Vermont has launched a new television campaign featuring Guzmán and his Stinky-Feet-Friends sitting around drinking beer and eating cheese. It's weird. And though we have always liked Cabot Cheese, now it's going to be hard not to think of middle-aged toes (and werewolves) whenever we go cheddar shopping. Urg. More »

11:52 AM on Tue Jan 15 2008
By Chris Walters
861 views, 9 comments

Latest by Gavinthorp: Cabot cheese really is fantastic. I am not from the company by the way. more »

cheese

California Police Seize 375 Pounds Of Bathtub Cheese

Meet Floribel Hernandez Cuenca and Manuel Martin. California police arrested the pair on "felony cheese making charges" after they tried to sell 375 pounds of bathtub cheese at an open-air market in San Bernardino. Bathtub cheese, otherwise known as "illegal soft cheese," can cause a range of maladies including listeria, salmonella, and everybody's favorite gut goblin, E. coli.
The 375 pounds of seized illegal cheese included panela, queso fresco and queso oxaca varieties, the [California Department of Food and Agriculture] says. It was a significant find, the department says.
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9:10 AM on Sat Oct 27 2007
By Carey
26,493 views, 58 comments

Latest by snidelywhiplash: I don't really have anything useful to add, just wanted to say that "Bathtub Cheese" would be a cool band name. SW more »

leaks

Subway's Incorrect Use Of Isosceles Cheese Actually A Vast Conspiracy

Subway's penchant for not using their triangle cheese correctly is actually part of a diabolical mind-control plan to get you to pay more.

Back in July, Lefthandedtoons drew a cartoon mocking how Subway has triangle cheese, but never arranges it in a rhombus on the sandwich. Instead, Subway invariably lays it in a razorback formation, which the cartoonist felt led to "unnecessary dairy overlap" and "soul-crushing disappointment."

Amused, a UK subway worker printed out the cartoon at work. His boss was not amused and hung the above sign in the storage room, which reads, "Cheese triangles need to be placed [drawing of razorback formation] -> this will promote the need for customers to desire extra cheese - as it doesn't cover whole sandwich. Double cheese [picture of double razorback] = 40 p extra!"

Subway: A Method to Their Cheesy Madness [Left-Handed Toons]
PREVIOUSLY: Dear Subway, Please Use Your Isosceles Cheese Correctly

7:55 AM on Tue Sep 11 2007
By Ben Popken
11,526 views, 49 comments

Latest by "13 September 2007: Morning" on The Morning News: Bush to sell his limited Iraq pullout as plan to unify America, prior to entering the election jaws. Two soldiers who helped author last month's big Times op-ed killed in Baghdad. Directions provided by Subway manager show isosceles more »

security

Airports On High Alert After TSA Seizes Block Cheese

The Associated Press reported that the alert came after curious seizures since last September at airports in San Diego, Milwaukee, Houston, and Baltimore. Items seized, according to the bulletin, included "wires, switches, pipes or tubes, cellphone components, and dense claylike substances," including block cheese.
Cheese is a catalyst for fondue, an explosion of flavor and fun in your mouth.

Logan security remains high as terror concerns are raised [Boston Globe] (Thanks to Dork Esquire!)

12:45 PM on Wed Jul 25 2007
By Ben Popken
2,456 views, 85 comments

Latest by Cowboys_fan: @drjayphd: more »

complaints

Dear Subway, Please Use Your Isosceles Cheese Correctly

Come on guys, you got the putting calories on the menu thing right. Now, let's try draping the calories across the sub in a geometrically satisfying pattern, the one that fulfills the design destiny intended by your sandwich scientists. Spurn not their legacy.

An Open Letter To Subway [Left-Handed Toons] (Thanks to Ryan!)

9:14 AM on Wed Jul 18 2007
By Ben Popken
71,825 views, 82 comments

say cheese

Pizza Hut Raises Prices, Unveils New Strategy: Treat Cheese "Like An Extra Topping"

Pizza Hut has declared that cheese is a topping, meaning that plain pizzas and pies with one topping will now cost the same. The chain's declaration comes in response to the rising price of block cheddar, the light sweet crude of the cheese market. Pizza Hut buys 300 million pounds of cheese each year.
Jennifer Little, a Pizza Hut spokeswoman, said the new strategy is to treat cheese "almost like an extra topping." Little said the price change also could be justified because a typical cheese pizza has about 50 percent more cheese than a similar-size pie with one topping, such as pepperoni.
Papa John's has no plans has no plans to treat cheese like a topping; the Pizza Hut rival hedged its cheese supply, guaranteeing steady prices through the summer. — CAREY GREENBERG-BERGER More »

9:46 AM on Sat Jun 23 2007
By Carey
4,621 views, 53 comments

Latest by Thrust: I rather like Pizza Hut. One of the few places where the cheese still tastes like cheese (though they could lighten up on the deep dish oil). Little Caesars (Canadian at least) cut 90% of the Muenster and 100% of more »

stop & shop

Stop & Shop: Cheese From The Deli 66% More Expensive Than The Same Cheese On The Shelf

Reader J noticed the Cabot cheddar on Stop & Shop's shelf carries a 66% markup when purchased from the deli department. Cabot Seriously Sharp Cheddar sells for $4.38 per pound on the shelf, while the exact same cheddar costs $7.29 in the deli department. More »

8:46 PM on Sun Apr 15 2007
By Carey
6,099 views, 31 comments

illegal cheese

Salmonella From Illegal Cheese Strikes Chicagoland

An outbreak of salmonella poisoning in our homeland of Kane County, IL (Hey, there Elgin...) has been linked to an illegal cheese making operation. From WMAQ:
Kane County health officials said Thursday that cheese may be causing a salmonella outbreak that has made at least 20 people sick.
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11:43 PM on Fri Mar 23 2007
By Meg Marco
948 views, 21 comments

food

What Is The Definition of "Real Kraft Cheese"?

First it was guacamole with hardly any avocado in it. Then, Capri-Sun's "All Natural" label came under-fire. Now it looks like "Real Kraft Cheese" isn't so "real" after all. From Crain's:
These products get their flavor from natural and synthetic ingredients that add up to processed cheese — made in a laboratory, not on a dairy farm...
Kraft, like many food makers, often walks a fine line with its marketing, testing the limits of federal labeling regulations that are often vague or confusing.
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1:59 PM on Mon Feb 5 2007
By Meg Marco
1,136 views, 23 comments

Latest by acambras: Re Cheez Whiz -- If cheese is spelled with a Z, I figure it's not real cheese. Just like when crab is spelled "Krab." But yeah, I think it's possible to appreciate "fake" cheese (cheese food, cheese product) for what more »

gross

McDonald's Re-Gifts A Burger

Reader Joel and his girlfriend ended up going through a McDonald's Drive-thru in San Antonio, TX on Christmas, and they must have been naughty because McDonald's re-gifted their burger. After completing the drive-thru transaction and checking their order, Joel and his girlfriend noticed their burgers were wrong. He'd ordered no pickles, she'd ordered cheese. After the first bite was taken, it became painfully clear the cheese had been forgotten. From Joel's email:
    We turn around, go through the drive thru again, get up to the window and let them know that they forgot the cheese on her burger, and my two burgers (with a sticker and tag saying "double cheeseburger w/o pickles" on them) had pickles.
    I inform her that I'll just pick the pickles off... But we need cheese. A minute passes and she proceeds to hand me a chicken mcnugget box. I seeing it and being confused said, no, we ordered a home style burger with CHEESE. She said, yeah, here's the cheese.

Yes, they handed Joel some cheese in a box. Joel, being a sane person, refused cheese in a box. "I handed her the box of cheese, and the one bite missing burger, and asked if you could please remake it...Another minute passes, the lady comes back and hands me a very very hot box with a Home style burger in it, I hand it to the girlfriend and ...She opened the box and guess what! It's her exact same burger! With the bite missing. What they did was take the spare piece of cheese, slap it on the burger, and nuke it for about a minute." More »

11:22 AM on Wed Dec 27 2006
By Meg Marco
717 views, 45 comments

Latest by acambras: Joel, I think some people misused your post as a forum to express their feelings about picky eaters. I (and many others) do not think you were being picky to request the cheese you asked and paid for. What really more »

cheese

Buy Cheese, Fly for Free?

Good old Jason Kottke, hero of the internet, has posted a couple links to some folks who've discovered a way to replicate the "buy lots of pudding, get frequent flier miles" plot-line from P.T. Anderson's Punch Drunk Love, which, in turn, was based on "a caper well-known within the frequent flier community when David Phillips purchased over 1.2 million frequent flyer miles for just under $2400, which has allowed him and his family to fly to over 20 countries for free." More »

6:12 PM on Tue Nov 28 2006
By Meg Marco
202 views, 6 comments

Latest by kpchicago: The deal has gone south. Emmi's site now says "Due to the popularity of this promotion, our supply of AAdvantage miles has been exhausted. However, we are pleased to offer a Swiss Army Knife, valued at $20 with a valid code. more »

shopping

French Use Naked Women To Sell Cheese


The French finally have the right idea about something. Shying away from the stuffy pretension the lugubrious Frogs have usually employed to advertise their food stuffs, one sassy mademoiselle is promoting cheese in the way God intended: by photographing various semi-clad French wenches holding plates of camembert in their bras and panties. Can we — the loyal consumers of numerous baguette-spreadable cheeses — do anything less than offer this visionary a tripod salute? More »

2:51 PM on Thu Feb 2 2006
By consumerist.com
4,042 views, 6 comments