Foyle’s War and Easy Cheese

Foyles’ War is a British series that blends historically accurate events with the investigations of its main character Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle. It takes place in the town of the Hastings on the Southern Coast of England during WWII. Eunice and I have gotten into watching the series and recently watched the episode titled Bad Blood.

There is a scientific experiment in this episode that is based on real life WWII biological experiments focused on the use of anthrax. Scientists often used themselves as guinea pigs in their own experiments. Considering some of the things they were testing its not surprising it often turned out bad.

So what’s this got to do with Easy Cheese? I can eat processed cheeses like cream cheese, cottage cheese, American cheese, and mozzarella cheese. It finally occurred to me that I could probably eat Cheese Whiz too. It’s not that I have a hankering for Cheese Whiz but the thought of Nachos was in my head. Tearing up American cheese and trying to make Nachos just wasn’t doing it for me. But to be able to use a can of Cheese Whiz to spread it made it more palatable. I keep saying Cheese Whiz but it turns out the stuff in a can that you can shoot out over crackers, chips and so on is called Easy Cheese. Gotta believe it is the same stuff only in a can instead of a jar. Here are the ingredients for Easy Cheese (American flavor) copied from the can (some website versions may be different):

WHEY, CHEDDAR CHEESE (MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES), CANOLA OIL, MILK PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF SALT, SODIUM CITRATE, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, MILK, CALCIUM PHOSPHATE, LACTIC ACID, SALT, SODIUM ALGINATE, SORBIC ACID AS A PRESERVATIVE, ANNATTO (COLOR), APOCAROTENAL (COLOR), ENZYMES, CHEESE CULTURE.

I know it says Cheddar Cheese is an ingredient but as processed cheese goes, this stuff is really processed. It all looked safe to me. So like the scientists in Foyle’s War I decided to experiment on myself and the results were good; I didn’t get injured and the Nachos tasted better than you are thinking.

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