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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You're worried about that? Looking at that much cheese gives me a hemhroid

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Honestly the only issue I take there is that it’s not heated

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

A heated cold sandwich just isn't on mate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Never heard of cheese curds? Take that same block of cheese from the sandwich chop it up batter it then deep fry it and you have a delicious socially acceptable appetizer. Hell, it would be a small portion size for that appetizer.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

That's not what cheese curds are and if that's how they're serving you cheese curds where you are I'm sorry.

Cheese curds are literally tiny little curds of cheese and should be kinda springy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's a delicacy in the northern Midwest. Batter, cheese (can be curds proper or cheese cubes), a good deep fry.

It's like a heart attack and keeps you warm with every bite

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Gotta love the state fair cheese curds that can make you actively feel your arteries clogging. Probably makes your heart run like an F250 stuck in ecoboost mode on a steep incline but they're delicious.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The best cheese curds are the squeakiest. I think this debate is a Canadian v Midwest American one but either way if someone wants to deep fry my cheese curds before putting them on my poutine I'm not gonna argue that heart attack.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

"Natural byproduct of the cheesemaking process" is the key term here. They don't chop up blocks of cheese to get curds, curds are curdled chunks that form when the cheese is still liquid.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To be clear, I'm taking issue with the cut up bits of cheese part, not the battered and deep fried part

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Ah, yeah. Ideally you get the natural curds. In a pinch you can just chop up blocks though. The best ones I've actually ever had were fried cubes in a small town dive bar.

There are far bigger food crimes out there than frying cubes of cheese and calling them cheese curds.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think the entire province of Quebec just shuddered at that description of cheese curds.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm not sure I want to know what Québec considers a cheese curd now.

Proper cheese curds are a Wisconsin delicacy and his description is exactly correct

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Proper cheese curds are a Wisconsin delicacy

I've seen Wisconsinites go down on cheese curds. There's nothing delicate about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I'm pretty sure the LD50 of cheese was discovered in Wisconsin.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I mean sure, but in the U.S. if something is delicious, the obvious answer is to batter and deep fry it so it's more delicious.

It's just like common sense

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No it's not. Cheese curds are springy, almost spongey.

They're not just little bits of chopped up cheese. If that's what they're selling you in Wisconsin, you're missing out on actual cheese curds. If you'd ever have any you'd notice the difference immediately, it's not subtle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It's deepfried, so I just assumed it was melted cheese in the batter. It could be battered cheese curds deepfried which would make sense too

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

a delicious socially acceptable appetizer.

That is very location dependent.