Sunday, February 5, 2012

Cheese!



Cheese is delicious! Cheese is nutritious (kinda?)! Cheese is smooth, cheese is crunchy, cheese is sweet, cheese is tangy, cheese is everything that you could want out of a foodstuff that you want to be able to eat with something else. At Whole Foods, there is a whole cheese section devoted entirely to this incredible dairy product. When you think "Cheese and Crackers," it sounds delicious, but when you think hard about it, at least 70% of the awesome there is coming from the cheese, if not higher. Cheese is as pervasive as alcohol around the dinner table, whether a cozy family dinner or a fancy Christmas party. Just saying "cheese" makes you smile a little, which is why photographers always ask you too.

Once, when I was walking around South Station, passing the time as I waited for a train to Providence, I saw that I thought captured the glory of cheese.


Indeed, cheese dips are used for everything from pretzels to nachos. And then there's fondue! OMG, fondue. I think the fact that chocolate and cheese are the two most common fondued foods is really a very telling sign of their importance. However, I shortly saw another sign about cheese within the next 5 minutes that really hit the mark:


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