This article is dedicated to cheese. Yes, cheese. Cheese is awesome ‘ who wouldn’t want to write about cheese? As tired, stressed and busy college students, we need an outlet for entertainment ‘ for something satisfying and crucial to enhance our lives. That, my friends, is cheese.
Every time I go shopping, cheese must be incorporated into my list. Cheese is one of the very few things remaining stable in my life. I trust cheese, and so should you. Not only is cheese an ideal snack, it is also a loyal companion, through thick and thin (literally). We must remember not to favor any particular type; each variety has its own purpose, and we must respect that.
Many cheeses are delectable, but clearly the most useful cheeses are the individually wrapped ones.
For instance, mozzarella string cheese is a great kind of cheese. It is individually wrapped, so you can take it on the go. You can play with it. You can pull it slowly and gracefully, or you can take your aggression out and snap that cheese stick in half. Yes, string cheese is a therapeutic type of cheese.
Another great cheese is the Laughing Cow creamy Swiss cheese. It comes in a circular package, with delicious foil-wrapped triangular-shaped cheese inside. This type of cheese is not solid, not liquid, but something magical in between. You can eat it solo or you can use it as a spread. Multi-practical cheese is a fantastical type of cheese.
Next cheese up is sharp cheddar. I have found a gold mine of this type of cheese: individually wrapped Heluva Good sharp cheddar cheese (literally). Yes, that is the brand Heluva Good, and they have delicious cheeses individually wrapped. So you can eat one now, and anytime when that cheese craving hits. You can even slip some in your pocket for a secret snack. Stealthy cheese is a healthy cheese.
Other types of cheese that are glorious, but are not individually wrapped, still tickle the taste buds of an avid cheese connoisseur.
Fresh mozzarella may be a cheese that can get you in some trouble. It’s fresh and tempting, and everything you’ve ever dreamed of. You might just become a savage and eat the whole circular cheese pound in one sitting. Gross? You know you’ve done it.
Monterey Jack ‘ in a block ‘ can have multiple uses. In the brick block kind, it is hard enough to throw at your enemies, yet soft enough to cut with a butter knife. What a passionate and compassionate kind of cheese.
I know some may have a palate for the more sophisticated Roquefort or even Brie, but unfortunately, I do not. I can’t handle the refined complexity of such a cheese. But for those who do and can, embrace your elegant taste, and enjoy the choicest cheese.
So perhaps you get your cheese from the deli, your cheese shipped from Europe, your cheese from the store, your cheese from your friend’s fridge or your cheese from the floor. Either way, cheese is good ‘ and great ‘ and everything in between, and it should be honored as such. So let your guard down, enjoy life a little and admit it: every cheese morsel of heaven ingested satiates your hunger, if not your life, in the most gratifying of ways.
‘ Nicole Zimmerman is a sophomore psychology major. Yes it’s true’ she really has mentioned cheese (including this one) 44 times in this article.