Welcome back to the Big Cheese Bracket! We’re now entering the semifinals, the Elite Eight. The “specialty” cheeses have largely fallen by the wayside, as have the lesser standards; the powerhouses remain in the running, spiced up with a few underdogs and wild cards.
The Wild Card playoff was a nailbiter–you all can’t see the results as they come in, but all weekend long I got to watch the votes for Queso Fresco and Paneer rack up, the leader changing every hour or so, the margin rarely more than two or three votes! This held true through the end, with the winner up only three votes.
Results for Day 10:
Queso Fresco 51% v. Paneer 49%
Because of last week’s oh-so-close competition between Parmigiano and Feta, today’s match includes the next-level fight for the Wild Card between Feta and Queso Fresco. Will Feta make a grand comeback? Or will Queso Fresco continue its winning streak? The second match-up throws the underdog Asiago against the mighty Cheddar.
Persephoneers, ready your position’s artillery! Load your argumentative bullets! Aim your curdled darts and arrows at the enemy! Stop me before I make more horrifyingly limp metaphors!
FETA FOREVER.
I think it is pertinent to say here that a large portion of my lunch consisted of feta, both straight and covered in phyllo dough. As much as I adore queso fresco green chile fries, feta will always have my heart.
CHEDDAR AND QF!
(Sorry, feta, the mexican place next door makes cheese fries with queso fresco and dammit, I love those things.)
Dear Feta,
Kick some ass!
Love,
Me.
Cheddar is my OTCheese.
I snorted. Let’s be friends. : )
VOTE FETA TO AVENGE PANEER
That is exactly what I did and why I did it.
PANEER WILL BE AVENGED.
At first, I could not choose between Asiago and Cheddar. Then I remembered Pizza. Sorry Asiago, as good as you are with spinach and Parmesan, Pizza, Lasagna and Nachos much prevail.
I also could not choose. They are both so good! But then I was like “Well, if I had to live without one of them forever, it would be Asiago because I could not do that to cheddar.”
Exactly. It was one of those which cheese would you bring to a deserted island. Cheddar. Clearly!
FETA/CHEDDAR
GO BIG OR GO HOME.
Everyone who disagrees with this is wrong. Wrong I say!
Word.
Truth.
CHEDDAR!!!!!
queso fresco can DIAF. I’d vote for feta anyway, but particularly today, to avenge paneer.
You think you know and like someone, and then you find out that they vote against queso fresco.
Queso fresco is like a warm blanket of cheesy goodness.
I will support feta until it it looses its name around the world.
Even though all cheese makes me incredibly ill, I will always vote against Feta.
Ha ha!
Oh man, you’re gonna make some enemies today!
That’s fine. The friend of my enemy is also my enemy :)
Though seriously, just the aroma of this cheese makes me cramp with fear. That and bleu cheese. We are mortal enemies.