Episode 304
Morning 6-Pack - Let’s Get Cheesy: Weird Cheese "Facts" Are Here! 🧀✨
Morning 6-Pack - Let’s Get Cheesy! It’s National Cheese Day, folks, and we’re diving deep into the gooey goodness that makes everything better! Seriously, pizza, burgers, tacos, you name it—cheese just elevates all the eats! Did you know the average American munches through nearly 40 pounds of cheese a year? That’s a whole lotta cheddar, my friends! We’re also dishing out six totally legit, bizarre cheese facts that’ll have you laughing and saying, “Wait, what?!” So grab your nachos, kick back, and let’s celebrate this dairy delight together! 🧀🎉
Takeaways:
- Cheese is America’s culinary MVP – it makes everything better, even tacos!
- Did you know the average American munches on a whopping 40 pounds of cheese yearly?
- There are more types of cheese than there are Duggars – cheese diversity is real, y'all!
- Celebrate National Cheese Day by learning that blue cheese might just need some therapy!
- On this cheesy day, let's not forget: 99% of the time, when you cut cheese, it's the dog's fault!
- Lactose intolerance? More like a fancy excuse to complain about our love for cheese!
Transcript
It is National Cheese Day, time for America to take a moment to celebrate the food that somehow makes every other food better.
Speaker A:You know, I mean, think about it.
Speaker A:Pizza, better with cheese.
Speaker A:Burgers, better with cheese.
Speaker A:Tacos, better with cheese.
Speaker A:I would even say potatoes better with cheese.
Speaker A:I mean, of course, cheese has been around for thousands of years, but we Americans have really elevated it to an art form.
Speaker A:And I don't mean the cheese itself.
Speaker A:I mean what you put it with.
Speaker A:We put it on sandwiches, fries, nachos, salads, eggs, hot dogs.
Speaker A:Probably things that shouldn't have cheese on them, but somehow it works anyway.
Speaker A:The average American eats nearly 40 pounds of cheese a year.
Speaker A:40 Pounds.
Speaker A:And of course, fancy cheese lovers will tell you about aged Gouda, an imported brie, an artisanal cave ripened whatever.
Speaker A:But let's be honest, most of us are perfectly happy with a giant bag of shredded cheddar from the grocery store.
Speaker A:But on this National Cheese Day, I think it's the perfect time to take a look at this totally legitimate list of the top six weird but true facts you never knew about.
Speaker B:Cheeseback.
Speaker B:Crack open the mooring six pack.
Speaker A:The top six totally legitimate facts what you never knew about cheese.
Speaker A:Number six, the most popular cheese in the world is Jimmy Fallon's comedy.
Speaker A:Number five, cheese was first made 7,000 years ago, and that's just your slice of Velveeta.
Speaker A:Number four, there are more varieties of cheese than there are Duggars.
Speaker A:Number three, the variety of cheese that is most likely to need therapy is blue cheese, of course.
Speaker A:Number two, 99% of the people who cut the cheese.
Speaker A:Blame the dog.
Speaker A:And the number one weird but obviously true fact that you never knew about cheese, Lactose intolerant.
Speaker A:People can eat cheese because lactose intolerance is a condition that we white people made up so that we can moan about something.
