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Retrophilia: Cheese-tastic

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retrophilia (ret troh FEE lee uh) n. 1 An intense attraction for things of the past. 2 a weekly series for popsucker wherin the irrepressible Wootini reveals the horrors of the past to the present to avoid making the same mistakes in the future.

The holiday season is kicking off now, which means it's time for entertaining. And that means feeding your guests. A good place to start with that is with appetizers. Like this cracker with cheese. Seems innocuous enough, even if there is more cheese there than cracker. But if you make the jump, it gets worse. Much worse.

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Let's start with the cheese itself. It comes in quite a few varieties, but the only really egregious one is "pimento." Everything else is pretty standard cheese flavorings. It just creeps me out that it comes in a little sausage casing like that. That's just not how cheese should be. Also, was Kraft trying to be youthful and/or hip with the purposeful misspelling of "Squeez-A-Snak?" Because I don't think they quite made it.

Moving on to the food itself, this is basically Cheese-Whiz, but in a tube instead of a can. Somehow it still comes out the same, though, with that lovely pattern. My concern is what Kraft seems to be suggesting you put their "process cheese spread" on. I mean, I'll give you the Triscuit, the melba toast, and even the pretzel. Possibly even the hot dog. But cauliflower? Really? That's kind of nasty. Stuffed Tomato? And cucumber? That's not right to start with, but then the amount of "cheese" they put on it is so overwhelming. Just eat the "cheese" and forego the vegetable. Who are you fooling at that point anyway? Actually, they've put a lot of "cheese" on a lot of these items.

Memo to Kraft: There are some foods that cheese doesn't go with, as much as you'd like to think otherwise.

Oh, and the creepiest part is in the text where they suggest hanging this ad full of ideas up in your cabinet where you keep your Squeez-A-Snak. Cheese that doesn't need refrigeration, even after opening, just makes me a little nervous.

5 Comments

Eshto said:

Why do I need a chart? Clearly there is nothing that cannot go well with cheese.

There should have been two simple steps:

1. Pick a food, any food.

2. Squirt fake cheese on it.

Save room for all your other kitchen posters!

Is that a slice of apple?

*gags a little

Reo said:

I'll stick to plastic cheese in nice, manageable single-serve squares, thankyou....

davedoty said:

Why not an apple? As disgusting as I find it, many, many people put cheese on apple pie. Never heard of putting Squeez-A-Snak, or Easy Cheez for that matter, on one, though. Some things even I don't love cheese enough to do. And I lick out the queso bowl!

Mark said:

As a science oriented nerdy kid in the 70's Squeez a Snak fascinated me! How could a milk product remain unrefrigerated for years and still be edible. We left an opened "sausage" container of the stuff in our treehouse for the hot humid summer of 1977 and in September found it in between the floor planks. I remember sucking the salty cheese-like goo out and it still tasted good...No mold, sourness, rot etc. Truly amazing!! My Dad suggested that it could replace embalming fluid as it was much cheaper and as effective.
Where is it now??? Discontinued, I heard in the early 80's. Keep an eye out for it in old warehouse liquidation stocks..I can guarantee that it will be as fresh as the day it was made when Smokey the Bandit still ruled. Food science truly amazing.

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