Friday 27 November 2015

How things change in a lifetime. Part 1 Cheese

Cheese. How cheese changes? Cheese is cheese, is cheese, surely! Cheese when young was bought as a block. Purchased eagerly as a brick of cheese deliciousness. Said block had substance, solidity and a satisfying weight in your hand. The following  is submitted as a worthy example of such a piece of cheese. A lump of cheese that would have required a team of highly coordinated and strong mice to make off with. When slicing it a part would always crumble away. Thus a bit for the sandwich, aa taster for the diligent sandwich maker.
And what has happened? Cheese met the modified atmosphere packaging movement. Protect. Protect your cheese against dirty microbes. Which is strange as they are fundamental to the  making of said cheese. Even the cheese is made ready, as if for dummies.Go to the correct corner, you know, the one which has been prepared for us to pull. Open with the sound of adhesive succumbing to the might of your pressure as the cover is retracted. And there we have it. A slice, yes its already sliced so you don't haave to think again. Simply plop the slightly sweaty, limp slice on your bread. Sandwich ready.
And now we have a plethora of terminology to accompany our cheese. Sliced Cheese packaging in flow pack wrapper (HFFS) in Modified Atmosphere (MAP) using BDF Shrink Barrier Fil. And on, and on it goes. Cheese in a lifetime.

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