05/18/2011- Hoop Cheddar Cheese

The 16th meeting of the International Cheese Club commenced on May 18th, 2011. Members present were Moobs, Scott, Jesse, Tony, and Susie the Cat. The cheese sampled was a hoop cheddar cheese. It was served grilled on Italian bread and cold with mini-toast and apples.

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Smell:

Moobs- Smelled like cheddar cheese.

Scott- It was a nice cheddar smell.

Jesse- It smelled like cheese. Not much of a smell at all.

Tony- I forgot to smell it.


Taste:

Moobs- A very good cheddar cheese, not as sharp as some I'm used too, but still a very good robust flavor. It seemed like a high quality cheddar. Almost the idealistic cheddar cheese.

Scott- It's a good cheddar cheese taste. I like it better than the blocks of Kraft.

Jesse- By itself a canned chicken or cat-food taste. Tasted like the smell of tuna fish.

Tony- It had a kind of rubbery bite to it, but an excellent cheddar flavor. Very good cheese.


Best Application:

Moobs- My favorite was the cheese by itself. I felt like the applications got in the way of the flavor of the cheese.

Scott- I liked it on the grilled cheese the best. The butter used in making it brought out and balanced the flavors pretty nicely. A damn good grilled cheese.

Jesse- The grilled cheese had the best application, but the mini-toast was good. The texture of the cheese once melted was good, not too creamy and a lot of flavor. The grilled butter toast matched the canned preservative taste, overriding the weird after taste.

Tony- I liked the grilled cheese a lot. The bread was good and went well with this cheese. The mini toast was kind of gross, might have gone bad.


Final Thoughts:

Moobs- I liked it, interesting to try a different type of cheddar cheese.

Scott- It was a very good cheese, now that I've tried it I would probably choose it over other blocks of cheddar.

Jesse- I had some initial thoughts that this was government cheese, using Google I still stand by it and have a bias against it. In the end turned out to be a good cheddar cheese. Not much flavor though, you'd get more from a Kraft sharp cheddar.

Tony- An excellent cheese. Good substitute for Kraft cheddar. Everyone should try this cheese.

Susie the Cat: Liked it.

05/02/2011- Velveeta Cheese

The 15th meeting of the International Cheese Club commenced on May 2nd, 2011. Members present were Moobs, Scott, Jesse, Tony, and Susie the Cat. The cheese sampled was Velveeta. It was served cold, with mini-toast, warmed over nachos, and apples.

Reactions

Smell:
Moobs- It smelled a lot like American singles, a pleasant smell.

Scott- It smells like processed cheese, a nostalgic smell. Brings back good memories of sandwiches from when I was younger.

Jesse- It's a smell of processed, cheap cheese. A sour smell.

Tony- It smells like a plastic bag that cheese has been in.


Taste:
Moobs- Delicious. Takes me back to grade school digging cheese out with a red stick and smearing it on crackers. Like a creamy American single.

Scott- It's very good. Reminds me of a saltier Kraft single.

Jesse- I don't think so. Very creamy, processed, and cheap. Poor artificial flavoring.

Tony- It taste like crap. Salt and milk. The most uncheeselike cheese taste you can find. Cheez-Its taste more like cheese than this.


Best application:
Moobs- The best was the nacho chips. The saltiness of the chips went well with the cheese. My least favorite was the apple. The cheese brought out a sourness in the apple. A strange taste I didn't care for.

Scott- The nachos. Having it warm and melted on the nachos makes it better. The apple was my least favorite. Not bad, but out of the choices my least favorite.

Jesse- The mini-toast. A pleasant experience. Throwback to Handi-Snacks. My least favorite was the apple, it brought out the sourness of the cheese. Tasted too healthy for such a salty cheese.

Tony- Nothing. I'm not sure why anyone would do anything with this cheese besides throw it out.


Final Thoughts:
Moobs- I would eat it again, especially for the price. It's a lot of cheese. I think a grilled cheese with this might be particularly delicious.

Scott- Very good cheese. Makes me want to make cheese dip and binge on it till I'm sick.

Jesse- I generally don't seek out cheese that's a molecule away from being plastic. Probably not going for it again, but cheese club is opening me up to creamier cheeses. I would go for cheese dip with it though.

Tony- Spend another dollar and get real cheese. Life is too short for awful fake cheese.

Susie the Cat- Liked it.