Repeat after me,
"Good cheese comes from happy cows. Happy cows come from California."

(my apologies for stepping on trademark toes, but my readership is so small that if you care you have no life)

Tonight I made Ring Tum Diddy for dinner. Some may already be familiar with this fine quisine, those who aren't should be. All that you need to known is that it requires cheddar cheese. I think that the recipe should make it clear that it calls for California cheddar cheese. Thanks to the supermarket strikes and the supermarket's strange way of dealing with it, normal brands of foods are not available. Actually, many food forms have become totally scarce. For instance, most of the vegatables are wilted or simply not available and the same goes for the fruit. Good bread has been even harder to find. Chicken has disappeared in some places. There is a vanilla yogurt shortage and you should always be prepared to buy the wrong percent milk because you can't even hope that they'll have what you need. So today my mom came home with Oregon cheddar cheese. This was not her fault, she knows better. Why the supermarkets decided they would no longer provide California cheese is beyond me. Anyway, I open it up and it wasn't the right color. It was much too pale for a medium cheddar. I tasted some and it tasted funny. But I figured it would be fine for cooking. Wrong. Tonight we ate tastless Ring Tum Diddy. Mooooo!