I never liked string cheese.
The name, itself, is off-putting don’t you think? String equates to “stringy” which sounds tasteless and hard to chew. I think I tried it once but found it as described – tasteless and stringy.
However, my son and the 3 grandgirls were visiting this holiday and brought a giant package of organic string cheese which they seemed to thoroughly enjoy.
“I don’t think I like string cheese,” I said.
“Oh, Grammy – try it.”
I proceeded to chomp down on the end of my stick thing.
“Noooo. You don’t eat string cheese like that,” rang in the 3 grandgirls. “Peel off a skinny string and savor the flavor.”
And yes, I am now a string-cheese fan!
I suppose I look young eating it too – savvy and in-the-know you know.
Isn’t it wonderful the things we learn from the young?
From en.wikipedia.org :
String cheese came to prominence following the market crash of 1929. Families desperate for cheese would take discarded cheeses from the aristocrats of the time. They would divide the cheese into sticks. The individual families would then take the sticks and break them into long strings to give to each of their many children. Children would often ask to be given their “string of cheese,” which was eventually shortened to string cheese when cheese manufacturers began selling the product after the U.S. economy recovered.
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