The Most Important Question Of The Day

[ericcoleman]

[Poll #1168339]

edit We were talking here at work and were not able to decide if Velveeta came in a brick or a loaf. Feel free to discuss this in comments ... I'll post my name for it shortly

Comments

[born-to-me.livejournal.com]

Velveeta, the versatile cheese product.

Okay, where's a can of Rotel? I need cheese dip...

[ericcoleman]

It's not a cheese product, it's a cheese FOOD

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

That's right - it's what cheese eats if it wants to grow up big & strong.

Some of my previous bandmates began referring to things like: "Pasteurized Process Music Food" or "Pasteurized Process Food Food".

Personally, I'd prefer not to eat anything named after "Whiz".

[ericcoleman]

Who said anything about eating EITHER of these ???

[born-to-me.livejournal.com]

I do! I love me some Velveeta*!

And I am partial to anything named Whiz. I was, after all, a Whizzer for four years of my life.



*apparently my spell check knows that Velveeta needs to be capitalized...

[born-to-me.livejournal.com]

Yum. Even better.

[rsmit212.livejournal.com]

Can only make a Philly Cheese Steak with Cheez Whiz.

Though, I prefer Velveeta Shells over the blue box mac & cheese.

[ericcoleman]

Velveeta shells ROCK !!!

[alymid.livejournal.com]

neither - they are both oogie . . .

[ericcoleman]

You still have to choose ... I made my choice on the name ... Cheez Whiz is just a funnier name.

Brick or loaf

[ericcoleman]

Neither ... it's a Bloaf

[budsharpe.livejournal.com]

I always thought of Velveeta as coming in a brick, but now I'm fascinated by the loaf concept. Let's try it out:

"A loaf of cheese, a quart of milk, and a stick of butter."

Yes, I think that works. Loaf it is!

[geekymary.livejournal.com]

Officially, it's a loaf.

[ericcoleman]

WHERE'S THE FUN IN THAT ???

[geekymary.livejournal.com]

Sorry mate, just speaking as your local Kraft representative.

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

What's the typeface they use on the box? Is it Velvetica?

[ducks and hobbles away, as he gave up running years ago]

This reply from the person who works in a print shop

[ericcoleman]

BAD ... BAD PERSON ... BADBADBADBADBADBADBADBADBADBADBADBAD

bad

now going to repeat it to all of my co-workers

Response from guy who USED to work in printing company and recently watched documentary "Helvetica"

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

Ah. Then my work here is finished.

Now that you're done

[ericcoleman]

I would recommend fleeing the country ... a couple folks here at work are talking about driving to Chicago to have a ... ahem ... talk with you

This of course after they are done with me for repeating it ...

Re: Now that you're done

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

I don't have to be faster than the bear; I just have to be faster than YOU.

[partiallyclips.livejournal.com]

Cheez Whiz may be inherently funnier than Velveeta, but "loaf" is funnier than "brick" by orders of magnitude.

[born-to-me.livejournal.com]

I concur. My 81 year old Mother is undecided, though, and my three year old was unavailable for comment.

[ericcoleman]

But how do you both feel about the word Bloaf ???

[ericcoleman]

Oh, and I do agree, loaf is much funnier than brick.

[born-to-me.livejournal.com]

I love it. I can't really say I would refer to Velveeta as a "bloaf", but I've met some meatloaf that is best described that way.

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

Velveta is a square brick. If it was round then it would be a loaf.

[born-to-me.livejournal.com]

But a loaf of bread is square.

[jannyblue.livejournal.com]

It depends on the loaf.

Loaf pans are square...

*wonders if she has one*

[rmeidaking.livejournal.com]

I thought that Cheez Whiz and Velveeta were the same substance, just packaged differently (brick vs. jar). You can certainly use them interchangeably in recipes. Frankly, in mac & cheese and on nachos are the only ways I would use them...

[bammba-m.livejournal.com]

They're the same thing, just different viscosity. So my vote goes with the more viscous.

Mmm...viscous.

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

I vote "ick" and "ick". Did you want us to vote which is more edible (neither is edible) or which is more dreadful (I'm not about to do a taste test to find out).

I suppose if you wanted my opinion on them as art supplies, and someone else was buying, I could do some experiments with carving/pasting/painting with them...

[ericcoleman]

I'm not asking for any value judgment ... I'm just asking that you choose one or the other. What criteria you use is entirely up to you.

[born-to-me.livejournal.com]

But... how do you know how they are if you haven't tasted them?

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

I have (thankfully very long ago).

I grew up thinking I didn't like cheese, then thinking that I didn't like cheese except for muenster and monterey jack, which my parents served to their friends at parties...eventually, I realized that I like just about ALL cheeses except for any variety of "American" and any food product that has been modified to melt smoothly, even if they call it "Cheddar". I can't stand the fake sour cream flavorings they put on chips either. I suspect I only learned to like yogurt because of its property of reliving the runs, when they have been acquired by being on antibiotics too many times for the health of one's friendly food-digesting stomach bacteria.

I plead guilty to being picky about my dairy products.

My maple syrup too--if I go to IHOP I take my own, 100% real maple syrup. Most of the servers there don't even know that the stuff most people put on their pancakes is "maple flavored" sugar syrup.

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

Best ad campaign that never was:

VELVEETA: so vegetarians can have Spam too

[mplsfish.livejournal.com]

If you put velveeta on it, kids will eat broccoli. Or green beans. Nothig will get kids to eat brussels sprouts.

[jannyblue.livejournal.com]

Nothig will get kids to eat brussels sprouts.

Actually cash bribes work pretty well...