Cheese is on track to blow up, baby. Global Industry Analysts projects a 20 percent worldwide increase in cheese-munching from 2008 to 2015, when the world will gobble 21 million metric tons of the stuff, according to a press release on PR Web. [More]
Court to McD's: It's Wrong To Fire Someone Over A Slice Of Cheese
By January 26, 2010
A McDonald’s worker from the Netherlands was fired after she gave a cheeseburger to a colleague who only paid for a hamburger. A court has found that this is not a good enough reason to fire someone. [More]
15-Year-Old Cheese Sells For Only $50 Per Pound
By December 9, 2009
Do you enjoy cheddar cheese? Do you prefer your cheese well-aged? Perhaps you would enjoy, for $50 per pound, what the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel calls “the single malt scotch of cheddar.” It’s 15-year-old cheddar from Hook’s Cheese Co. of Mineral Point, Wisconsin. And the few stores allowed to carry it can barely keep it on the shelves. [More]
Actual Appearance Of Domino's Pasta Bread Bowl Melts Expectations
By July 22, 2009
Oh, it’s easy to make fun of the bread bowl pasta that Domino’s introduced a few months ago. And we certainly did. But no matter how much you like carbs, this product’s gap between advertised image and actual appearance is a little….melted.
FDA Recalls Mrs. Grissom's Salads Cheese Spreads Due To "Undeclared Anchovies"
By April 10, 2009
If you bought some cheese spread from Mrs. Grissom’s Salads, and are allergic to or just don’t like anchovies, the FDA has some bad news for you.
By March 10, 2009
Don’t eat Queso Fresco Fresh Cheese Mexican style soft cheese and Queso Cotija Molido Mexican style grated cheese manufactured and distributed by Peregrina Cheese Corp. It might be full of Listeria monocytogenes, which can cause severe headaches, nausea, diarrhea, or miscarriages.
Fred Meyer Says Cheese Is Not A Dairy Product
By August 12, 2008
Go shopping for cheese at the Ballard Fred Myer in Seattle, and you’ll learn an interesting new fact about your food:
KFC's "Vegetarian Sandwich" Isn't, Stop Kidding Yourself That Fast Food Restaurants Have Vegetarian Options
By July 22, 2008
In an effort to appease PETA and other angry vegetarians, KFC recently began selling a vegan, “Unchicken” sandwich in its Canadian locations. Guess what? It’s not vegetarian.
Disturbing Cheese Ads With Luis Guzmán And His Fellow "Cheddar Hunks"
By January 15, 2008
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.
California Police Seize 375 Pounds Of Bathtub Cheese
By October 27, 2007
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.
Subway's Incorrect Use Of Isosceles Cheese Actually A Vast Conspiracy
By September 11, 2007
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. [More]
Airports On High Alert After TSA Seizes Block Cheese
By July 25, 2007
Logan security remains high as terror concerns are raised [Boston Globe] (Thanks to Dork Esquire!)
Dear Subway, Please Use Your Isosceles Cheese Correctly
By July 18, 2007
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. [More]
Pizza Hut Raises Prices, Unveils New Strategy: Treat Cheese "Like An Extra Topping"
By June 23, 2007
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
Stop & Shop: Cheese From The Deli 66% More Expensive Than The Same Cheese On The Shelf
By April 16, 2007
Salmonella From Illegal Cheese Strikes Chicagoland
By March 24, 2007
Kane County health officials said Thursday that cheese may be causing a salmonella outbreak that has made at least 20 people sick.
What Is The Definition of "Real Kraft Cheese"?
By February 5, 2007
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.
McDonald’s Re-Gifts A Burger
By December 27, 2006
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.”
