Location Taken: Unionstar Cheese, Zittau, Wisconsin
Time Taken: June 2012
I think I shall dedicate today to cheese.
Yes, cheese, that most noble of rotten foods!
There are many cheeses, good and bad. And, of course, many in between, such as what you find in a standard grocery store.
The bad cheeses I have had were largely due to my own personal preferences not matching the cheese. I find brie too soft and not that pleasant taste-wise, but my Mom loves the stuff.
And then there’s the cheeses I’m allergic to. Well, more specifically I’m allergic to the holes in cheese. Every single cheese I’ve tried that has the characteristic holes best known in Swiss Cheese has given me a nasty headache. Really, I suspect I’m allergic to the remnants of the specific bacteria that produces the holes, but it’s far more amusing to say I’m allergic to the holes in cheese.
The good cheeses… Oh, how fabulous are they!
I’ve only had my absolute favorite cheese twice in my life. It’s a Colby cheese with bacon. The bacon smooths out the harsher flavors of the Colby into a marvel on the tongue, and well, bacon is good in its own right. I’ve only found it at a specific cheese shop in Wisconsin, Unionstar, located not too far from the cemetery some of my great-grandparents are buried in. If you’ve ever heard about Wisconsin and its cheese, the tales are all true. It is marvelous stuff. Nay, stuff is too generic a term, it is marvel itself!
And that same place sells Chocolate Cheese, a fudgy cheese filled with chocolate. It is my second favorite cheese in the world, and better than the finest chocolate I have had elsewhere.
Ahhhh… Cheeeeesssseee…
