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String cheese, hula hoops and lunch boxes
2008-09-10
After playing with our hula hoops, sit-n-spins, barbie dolls, transformers, skip-its, cabbage patch kids (and garbage pail kids), what did we all eat as kids? What dominated those muppet lunch boxes and oh-so-cool and generic brown paper bags we brought to school? Did you trade those fruit rolls ups, string cheese, and twinkies, or were they your favorites? Remember, these are the days before deep fried twinkies, so we had to make do with the originals (oh yuck!). Was cheese a central food in our delicious culinary lives as it is now? I wonder.
Did you eat cheese growing up? What kind?
Jennifer from Boston answers, "Yes! Parmesan- I'm Italian and we put it on just about every dinner meal." Julie from Washington D.C. responds, "Yup. Most kinds that non-picky kids eat- cheddar, american, provolone, havarti. I know I didn't like swiss or brie." Jeff from Boston reflects, "My parents were mild cheddar people. I'm branching out, but still conservative."
Let me start by saying that I would have been thrilled to grow up in Jennifer's household, with lovely parmesan available for every meal (no offense, Mom!). Forget salt and pepper, why not stock every dinner table with cheese? That sounds amazing. *Sigh*
I would put forth that parmesan is similar to the other cheeses Julie mentions that "non-picky kids eat- cheddar, american, provolone, havarti." I am quite impressed that she grew up with such a varied cheese repertoire. Kudos to her mom! While the cheeses she mentioned may be on the milder, more kid-friendly, side, I did not get many people tell me they grew up eating havarti. That's cool. And it is no surprise that a kid would avoid more distinctive tasting cheeses like brie and even swiss. The important thing is to eat lots of those as an adult to make up for years lost!
Jeff's response brings up another very interesting question. How much does your cheese upbringing affect who you are as a cheese adult? It's the whole cheese nature versus cheese nurture argument. (Doesn't every argument sound better when you stick "cheese" in front of each part?!)
But seriously (or a little bit seriously), I wonder if you grew up only eating orange american cheese if you're less likely to indulge in some fabulous limburger or roquefort cheese as an adult. I was definitely encouraged to try lots of new things as a kid and, as you can guess, I enjoy quite the range of cheeses. In Jeff's case, he acknowledges that he is trying to branch out. And I know that when he has a party, I can always count on him to serve some spicy pepper jack cheese! That's no mild cheddar, my friend! So I guess there's hope for all of us to appreciate the mild, the strong, the sweet, the creamy, AND the stinky.
Next time we'll answer the question, "How much cheese do you eat in a week?"
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