Poll of the Day > If you don't have something good for long enough, bad versions become good.

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So, I like muenster cheese. It's like my favorite type of cold cheese by itself, often even over mozzerella (though they are close). I used to have lots of good places to get high quality, soft, yummy muenster cheese in California.

I moved here 3 1/2 years ago, and couldn't find it anywhere, seriously you could by it sliced at Safeway, but yeah, it was some kind of processed, long term stored, blah muenster cheese, I would never have considered eating it in the past. I found some at Heagen, but it was freaking 16$ a pound.....yes $16 a pound for cheese. It was more expensive then ribeye steaks. Doesn't matter, my wife was alive then, I was making money, I bought the cheese.

About....2 years ago though, they stopped carrying it, no more muenster at all, let alone high quality. I have pretty much gone without for over a year at this point. Today, I went to Safeway and picked up 2 packages of lucern swiss cheese (loved grilled sandwiches with it) since I have a month long special for $2 a package. Next to the swiss cheese...was a package of sliced muenster. I remembered vaguely trying it in the distant past and turning my nose up at it.

Well I am eating some now, and yum. Maybe compared to the cheese I used to get it sucks, but...It's been so long I can just compare it to swiss pretty much, and it's so much better. So now I will get it in the future and enjoy it. I think maybe I'm getting there with the crap they consider tacos in washington as well, maybe some year I'll be able to eat them and think yum as well.......probably not....they are really not good here.....but I mean, I guess it's possible, i'll call it the muenster affect!
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This is true for many things. Still, even a bad muenster is better than most cheeses.