@marty , if we all survive this and make it through to the other side I’ll figure out a way to get you a can of cougar gold.
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marty isn’t the only canned cheese skeptic 'round these parts.
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Refrigerate upon arrival.
Hmmm. We’re speaking english here, but not the same dialect. Store it at ~4 degrees C or so.
Edit: Took me a while, but I got the joke. Maybe. Still not sure.
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It’s like when you find out some of the best seafood in the world comes out of cans.
I thought it was weird the first time I saw it in a can but don’t get the hate or skepticism or whatever. If it tastes good who cares. Wax is preferable?
Yes, but I’m not ordering lol canned cheese.
I more or less believe you guys and think it’s probably good cheese. However, I also very strongly suspect that it’s mostly just a regional pride thing and that “good” is about the best review you’re going to get from people who don’t have emotional ties to WSU.
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I’m a life long Husky who roots for the Cougars and a plane crash every time they play the Ducks. If this cheese doesn’t live up to the hype, my next few posts in this thread will probably get flagged.
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From MN bro. Wisconsin cheese was right next door.
PM me your address. Your first can is on me.
A few people on 22 who ordered it, raved about it – way better than ‘good’. IIRC they had no connection to WSU and only heard about it from other posters.
I’ll let somebody else be the Cougar Gold guinea pig. I do see that according to Wikipedia, the cheese won a silver medal at the World Cheese Awards in 2000 and gold in 2006.
I can’t find winner lists for either year, but the most recent year includes 84 winners in the Super Gold category, 286 Gold, 470 Silver, and 610 Bronze, so those wins were very far from the implied first and second place. Still, that’s world-wide competition and any placing is respectable, even if it was 15 years ago.
On the domestic cheese competition front, I note that last year a couple of the Cabot cheddars widely available near me took first place in their categories and were contenders for the grand prize, so I have a good reference point for what the cheese snobs consider good cheddar. The last time Cougar Gold even made it to the results list was 2011, in 26th place.
Oh man, this tasted amazing and you all have to give it a try: roasted poblano/cilantro pesto. Italian / American Southwestern fusion cuisine!
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That seems like a pretty fair assessment of Cougar Gold to me. Good cheddar? Definitely. Great cheddar? Sure. The best ever? Probably not, as there are shitloads of great cheddars out there. The canning is largely irrelevant to the taste, but if this is the zombie apocalypse, then you might be clamoring for can, as it’ll last a lot longer than your boutique cheddar.
Every single time you guys talk about Cougar Gold I giggle.
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Ok I’ve seen enough gold cougar talk I’ll buy some and add it to my canned food stash
You guys all don’t realize how much better even cheap cheese is in @marty’s neck of the woods. Yes the entire UK is a culinary backwater, but they do so 2 things objectively better than us - - beer and cheese. Even what we think of as good cheddar in USA isn’t even close to just average cheddar from Cheddar.
No idea about cheese, but I’m not going to give the nod to the UK over the US in beer unless you’re just talking about mass produced American beers.
I don’t want to completely derail the thread, but off the top of my head I can think of many stouts I would reach for before a Guinness. However it is good for a mass produced beer.