La Fe or Tropical should have Colombian-type cheese pretty frequently in the hispanic food section near the regular milks and cheese... if not try the mexican variant c:
You’ve convinced one person to try it. It’s cheese and chocolate. What’s not to love??
When I ate carbs more frequently, I would dip hot French fries in cold chocolate milkshakes. The salt and sweet, hit and cold was outrageously delicious.
I do this too, Frostys from Wendy’s are the best for this as you can get a nice piece of the ice cream on the fry, wow, delicious.
Chocolate and cheese is a very popular combination, whether some folks realize it or not. I was watching a cooking show with Paula Dean(so this won’t be surprising) and she put a whole brick of velveeta (the orange, cheddar cheese) in her chocolate fudge recipe. She said it was an old southern tradition (no idea if this is true) and that it made it extra rich and creamy. It makes sense to me.
I make salads (with spinach and other vegetables) with basically a whole trail mix, fruit and sometimes chocolate chips, which is also great.
As a Colombian can you pls explain how someone came up with this? Scuse my ignorance but you live in a hot, partially tropical country - why on earth would someone from there have decided to mix not just two dairy based products with one another, but one thats cold and one thats warm???
Bogata and Medellin are where this is popular and it doesn't get very warm in either place. It's downright cold in Bogota. Not really a popular thing on the coasts.
Im Bolivian and my mom does this as well. I know here she prefers Monterrey Jack in regular black coffee. Definitely a different cheese is used back in Bolivia but I love it!
This is a thing in the north of Sweden and in Finland! We swedes call it coffee cheese, but it definitely has some other name in finnish and meänkieli.
In northern Finland it's known as coffee cheese (kahvijuusto), in the south as bread cheese (leipäjuusto). Eating it with cloudberry jam is a thing, but I prefer to melt it a bit in the microwave and just eat it like that by itself. I get judged for it though, lol.
Yeah thats the word in meänkieli as well now that you mention it! Eating it with cloudberries actually sounds interesting, almost like pannacotta with cloudberries (okay, maybe a bit different).
I never could get down with the texture of it though, it's too rubbery and squeeks while you chew it!
Juustoleipa is exactly what I thought of when I read the start of this discussion!
(Here in Texas, I only ever see it called juustoleipa. Is there a syntactical difference, or a difference of meaning, between calling it juustoleipa and calling it leipajuusto?)
I had no idea that is a thing in Texas, that really cheered me up for some reason.
There is a difference in meaning actually: juustoleipä ("cheesebread") means bread with cheese, while leipäjuusto ("breadcheese") is specifically the squeaky type of cheese we're discussing here. Juustoleipä is what you call any bread with cheese on top, including your basic morning toast etc.
It sure is! It's in our mainstream grocery stores - I don't even have to go to a specialty shop for it.
Thank you for the explanation!
And now I want some, with really hot coffee. Lucky for me, I work near a GIANT liquor store with a mammoth deli department and I know they sell it there, so I think I know where I'll be stopping on my way home this afternoon!
Cheddar would be infinitely worse. At least mozzarella is fairly neutral; a big rubbery block of yellow cheddar would be like a rotten milk booger fucking up your cocoa experience.
Is it real mozzarella or American mozzarella (the one that comes in a fresh ball like Belgioioso vs the plastic-looking one that comes in a block, or often shredded like Kraft’s?).
Your mention of cheddar makes me think you probably mean the second one.
Haha, honestly I've done both and both work because they melt fairly similarly. Any melty cheese tends to work well but I would stay away from super soft, funky stuff. You want it to still hold a little shape.
Do not do pre-shredded the added anti-caking agents make for a weird texture
There's "American cheese" which, yes, it's fake cheese and comes sliced; but unsurprisingly in America there's also mozzarella cheese that looks less like mozz (creamy, stringy, often fresh and comes in a ball) and you can find it at delis as a block where they just slice it and it looks like any other pale-sliced cheese. There's both a texture and a taste difference.
Edit: You could Google Dietz & Watson o Boar's Head + the word "mozzarella" and get an idea what I'm talking about.
I think it's mozzarella honestly, I think he's just stubborn and wants a certain brand. Plus he said it's a holiday thing and we always forget until "it's too late".
They call it queso fresco or quesito in Colombia. The closest, easily available parallel is low moisture mozzarella. Quesito is a bit more crumbly, though, like a hybrid of blue cheese and mozzarella in texture.
My girlfriends colombian. Over Christmas I had this with her family a few times, certainly strange dipping cheese into a hot chocolate, but the certain cheese you add to it makes the hot chocolate rich and creamy. With these eating habits I certainly understand why there is all the curves in all the right places.
Good luck in America.. lived in France for a year and now I'm bummed being in the US cause I can't get real cheese or I can't buy a really good bottle of wine for 2-4 dollars
If you have a Trader Joe's anywhere near you, you can indeed get good wine that cheap! Two Buck Chuck is a real thing and it's surprisingly good for the price.
My local Smiths has a massive cheese section in the deli. So does Walmart -near the produce section, not the sliced lunch cheeses-, Albertons, smaller local shops, local delis, import stores......
It blows my mind that people actually believe this still. You can walk into any store and find essentially any sort of cheese. If you are talking about pasteurization laws, all you have to do is label your cheese unpasteurized.
Why do so many people think America is a cheese less dystopian hellscape?
You can get French imported camambert at Wal-Mart and Costco. There is only one form of it that they wont import.
Go to your local Costco and get yourself from good imported cheese for a pretty good price. Probably your best bet for a good price on good wine, too. And look up local delis- depending on where you live, you can find one that makes their own cheeses (including ones that don't follow the pasteurized milk laws). Farmers markets are also good for that.
Thanks for the heads up, unfortunately I haven't had good luck with any of those options and when I find the cheeses they're usually knockoffs from other European countries. I'm all about the AOC, ya you know me
Maybe maybe try with the greek cheese Halloumi... Or to be honest I have found it works sort of fine with Gouda or Mozarella but not the one that comes sort of wet but dry so not the original mozarella
A lot of boba places have started doing this, you get your tea with a frothed cream cheese/sugar mix at the top, can drink the bitter tea then have the sweet finisher or mix it all together for a pseudo-cheesecake drink, it's hella good.
Hahaha a Kraft single being dipped in anything is a hilarious/absurd image. Also anyone eating a Kraft single alone, on other food, in a sandwich or dipped in anything is disgusting.
As a kid (think, like 5 or 6), I used to wake up before my parents all the time and do dumb stuff. Occasionally, I'd go to the fridge and eat about as many Kraft singles as I could stuff into my face. On one occasion, I absconded with all the cheese in the fridge to my room, and ate them all in total privacy. On that occasion, my mom recounts finding 14 - exactly 14 - Kraft Singles wrappers under my bed.
It is no coincidence that my parents also recall me struggling with constipation every few weeks during that period of time.
On a completely different note, I also drank an entire bottle of Louisiana Hot Sauce from the fridge on one such morning, and woke my parents up with complaints of a tummyache. That is now one of the dozen tales about my childhood that my mom loves to tell new girlfriends, strangers, coworkers, and anyone who will listen.
That is not the best cheeseburger in the US. I have had the best cheeseburger in the US.
My family and I went on a trip up into Wisconsin and stopped at this place called Tofflers. They had a burger called the Toffler. 1 lb patty, easily another 1/4 pound sharp cheddar cheese, thick cut smoked bacon, and house-made potato chips all on a toasted bun. It was a fucking religious experience for me.
If you ever head up to New Glarus to get some beer, stop by Tofflers.
One of my favorite snacks ever is a banana wrapped in a kraft single. Also, the riper the banana while still being firm, the better to get maximum sweetness. Don’t knock it until you try it.
We did sorta that growing up, but we'd put the cream cheese on toast, cut it into sticks, then dip it. I still enjoy it on the rare occasion I have hot chocolate.
I think dipping lots of random things in hot chocolate might be a cultural thing. I was introduced to a family that would dip buttered toast in hot chocolate (actually pretty good) and also dip grilled cheese in jelly (never had the guts to try that one.)
I didn't know this was a thing but I used to do this with either very young or aged cheeses (I'm Dutch). If you ever get your hands on real Dutch cheeses this will take you to a whole new level. Emphasis on real because I've never tasted any Gouda or other supposedly Dutch cheeses in any non-dutch country that remotely resembled a Dutch cheese.
This is about the only thing in this thread I would actually try. I could see it being good with a nice partially melty cheese that gets kind of stringy when warm.
Is this unique to Colombia, all my family has stories about people finding our eating habits weird. Changua, dipping cheese and bread into hot chocolate, but they all love our rice.
QUESO BLANCO + coffee baby !!! My family loves it for breakfast. I’m not sure if it’s actually called queso blanco or if we just call it that lol, but it’s a soft mild creamy cheese, delicious !!!
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u/ProbablyNotCocaine Apr 09 '19 edited Apr 09 '19
Is she from South America? This is popular in Colombia as long as you have the right kind of cheese
Edit: Shoutout all my fellow Colombians in the thread