Saturday, 9 November 2013

58 - RA 19 - The First Cheese Week I

I think my favorite kind of cheese is going to a boring blog, but I’ll do it anyway

I doubt that I have the same wealth of cheese knowledge that you do, Andrew, being morbidly obese and all, but I’ll do my best.

My favorite kind of cheese would have to be Jarlsberg. I wouldn’t pick cheddar because it’s too common and obvious a choice, and I only know of those fancy, sour, bitter, moldy cheeses besides cheddar, so my answer is Jarlsberg.

We don’t often have Jarlsberg, but when we do, I make sure to carve out at least some of it for myself. This is much easier to do seeing as neither of you live at home anymore, but I still have to race to beat dad. It is quite a different texture to other cheeses. It’s more rubbery, and more robust, and probably wouldn’t melt if you left it in the sun (not that any cheese really does, it just gets more flexible.) But it also has a nice taste. Cheddar tastes like cheddar, and pizza tastes like pizza, and the others taste all bitter and gooey.

It can be used for any kind of sandwhich or wrap you want, is also good to melt on thing like pasta and grilled sandwhiches. So it tastes nice, is versatile, and easier to come by.

But on a more serious note (huh Andrew? You want us to lighten up? Well you didn’t listen to me when you were wiring our speaker system backwards, so I’m not going to listen to you,) our favorite cheese can be something of an indicator of who we are.

Cheeses come in all different varieties. There are hard cheeses, soft cheeses, cheeses that are meant to be grated, cheeses that are meant to be sliced. Those meant to be melted, those meant to be spread on crackers, and those meant to be eaten alone. Everything we do forms a part of who we are (something Dan, you’ll definitely agree on,) no matter how minor, like what our favorite cheese is.

My favorite kind of cheese is a sturdy, non-gooey, very elastic cheese that is general purpose. What does that say about me? Am I sturdy, non-gooey, elastic, general purpose person?

In some respects yes. I have an amount of morals and principles that I stick to, though I do make small breaks where necessary. I suppose that qualifies as being sturdy.
Non-gooey could refer to several things, like how emotional or overdramatic I am. It must mean being neither of those things, just being a calm, soft-spoken, suave gentlemen in the corner that all the girls want to buy them a drink. (There’s a short film for you Dan.) Sadly, I am absolutely not that. You can ask any of my friends.
Elastic? Hmmm… Well I am pretty agile, and can maneuver obstacles pretty effectively. But I guess it can also mean resilience, when things haven’t gone right, or I’ve been disappointed, or failed at something, being able to pick myself back and look forward. That’s something I can do.
General Purpose? I do have a range of quirky and largely useless skills. But I can perform just about any job that involves manual labor, or simple managing of things. But I guess it refers more to being able to adapt to various situations, even if you’re in them for the first time. In that regard, I think I spectacularly fail. I very easily freak out and get overwhelmed, so now, not really general purpose in the second interpretation.

So 6/10 as far as being like Jarlsberg goes.

But you see that simple decisions like that our favorite kind of cheese is can be a reflection of who we are. Like anything else in our life, it helps make us the person we want to be (yes, that was a Dan quote.)


R. A. Lyons.

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