What Is Going on with CHEESE?
 

I put this thread here because it's not so much about cheese as the PRICE of cheese.

Hoffman's super sharp cheddar is NINE dollars a pound at Kroger.

Excuse me, but isn't that a bit much? and the 8 oz. foil package of cheese was five dollars!

Have I missed something? Is cheese now a rare commodity?

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Have you looked at the price of milk lately?

here milk is - 2.50/gal...? I think. not so bad. Not nine-dollars-a-pound bad.

The peanut butter bubble is about to burst too. I hear on good authority one should stock up on peanut butter. (Well, my mom heard it from the grocery guy.)

They gotta get us somewhere: gas went down 15 cents and the evil corporations are starting to feel it in their collective pocket. Gawd forbid we start getting all cocky, saving money and buyin' other stuff besides food and gas, or just walkin' around with our extra dollar. The man is keeping us down. :tinfoil:

Oh, and I think the price of milk and cheese went up because there was a run on cows due to Dave's New Cheeseburger.

Come on, you didn't really think it was made out of DAVE, did you?

Pretty sure our regular milk is like $3.50/gallon. But we buy organic and that's a lot more. around $5.

Kinda pathetic that I don't know. We just buy it regardless of the price because it's a staple. It's a lot though.

I never thought about the dave's cheeseburger angle - food for thought!

oh, and glatt? Organic milk? really? What next - carob chip cookies?


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Yeah. I know. But then I did a blind taste test. Don't do a blind taste test if you want to keep drinking the regular less expensive milk.

you want I should send you some?.. we got more cheese here than you could shake a cow at.
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ME ME ME! I'm part swiss, and I want cheese! Not swiss cheese though. Bleh.

Do Swiss make Cheddar?

please !!¨.. wash your mouth out with cheese !!!.. the ONLY proper cheddah comes from England

and sorry if I'm being a bit pedantic... ALL cheese here is Swiss cheese :p:... "swiss cheese" as you know it is called Emmental ( from the area it started in )



ok /end pedantic

Then I don't want any. Cheese that smells like feet? No thanks.

I used to get a wonderful sharp white cheddar from New Zealand.

I usually don't pay attention to the price of individual things in the supermarket unless I am looking at the meat case ... I just figure that I need stuff, so I buy it. Okay, I occasionally play shelf-tag bingo and get the cheapest unit price out of a number of choices of a similar item.

But the other night I was in the store and suddenly noticed .... when the fuck did bread get to be $5 a loaf? I'm only buying that shit on sale from now on ... or I'll buy ingredients and make my own.

Cheese, on the other hand, is still doing okay. Kraft American (which I know is not really cheese, but makes a fine toasted cheese sandwich) is 2/$6. I stocked up (which means I forgot that I bought some two weeks ago and bought some more because I was shopping without a list), which is okay, because cheese is open dated and that stuff lasts close to forever.

I don't know what it is.. but Emmental is much milder than the "swiss cheese" I used to get in Boston ... must be the cows

I'm allergic to chocolate, so Mrs. Z will sometimes make me carob chip cookies. They're not bad if you can't have the real thing.