Chocolate cheese slices

by Nick Vagnoni, Posted Dec 22nd 2005 @ 4:05PM

As if things like Velveeta and that spray cheese with a nozzle weren't already stretching the limits of what we call cheese, New Zealand-based dairy company Fonterra has recently released chocolate-flavored cheese slices in markets in Asia. Essentially, the Chesdale chocolate cheese slices are individually wrapped squares, not unlike a Kraft Single, but with "a mild chocolate flavour, matched to a light Cadbury flavour," according to a Fonterra marketing director quoted in a New Zealand newspaper. Sales of dairy have never been remarkably high in Asia, however Chesdale has captured 10 percent of the cheese market in Taiwan since it's release six months ago.

Filed Under: Ingredients, New Products
Tags: asia, cheese, chesdale, chocolate, chocolate cheese slices, fonterra, new zealand

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12-22-2005 @6:49PM alps said... they have been making chocolate cheese at michigan state universitys dairy farm for years. I haven't tried it though, something about it just doesn't sit right with me
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12-23-2005 @1:17PM M-L said... Oh but not far behind must be the "you got your chocolate cheese in my peanut butter cheese!"

Seriously, that Norwegian Gjetost that tastes like peanut butter...wonder how the two would pair?
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12-23-2005 @11:07PM Sparkina said... Sounds absolutely nauseating! Definite flavor discord. Chocolate cheese, to me, is like putting whipped cream and cherries on bologna. My face is green just thinking about it, and I don't think faces are supposed to be green.
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1-07-2006 @4:05PM yelena said... is it odd that when i first saw the article the first thing that popped into kind was velveeta fudge? i heard that velveeta fudge is really quite good, but have never made it or tried it myself. maybe this is just the next step for those chocolate and cheese fanatics...
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1-07-2006 @7:40PM rainey said... Is it actually (or does it actually pretend to be) cheese? Or is it the shape and delivery system of sandwich cheese slices so that the word "cheese" is used merely as a reference point?

Some American company is marketing peanut butter in similar square, cello-wrapped, sandwich size individual "slices". (...because spreading peanut butter is just soooo taxing.) Perhaps someone has just developed a chocolate that can be sold in similar packaging.
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