Restaurant at Tokyo Disneyland used expired cheese for menu

can taste nasty when it is 'aged'; it is too old. Feta can be even nastier when it is old. Who wants their brie to be anything but creamy? Brie gets either moldy or too firm if it gets very old. I am speaking of age after the product reaches the consumer. Mozzarella is meant to taste fresh; when it is professionally aged (beyond the short aging period for Mozzarella before it reaches the consumer)it would usually be considered Provolone. I have had magnificent aged cheddar. I often look for aged cheeses so my palate is not off. I now have both Parmesan and Romano that I have owned over 2 years. Some cheese is meant to be aged after the consumer receives it and some cheese is not meant to be aged past the initial process and it is still good for an allowable time following its purchase. I love the very sharpest cheddar which is an indication of age. Since everyone was making an analogy to wine I will make one to aged beef; you can't age beef in your refrigerator at home. I have studied it on the web; some try to tell you that you can set up a special refrigerator at home; it will never be anything near to the quality of professionally aged beef. I would not hesitate to use Mozzarella one week after the expiration date. Mozzarella that is too old smells bad.

 

Only in Japan would this even become a news story. I swear, this sounds like a headline from The Onion or something--"Area Eatery Uses Cheese One Day Past Expiration Date".

I defy anyone to find an American restaurant that serves cheese in any of its products that hasn't used cheese a day past expiration.

Unless you're dealing with a really fine, delicate cheese (which Disneyland wouldn't be serving anyway, I'm guessing), a day past expiration is nothing. Even if this were milk, I'd say the stuff is O.K. As long as red mold hasn't started growing on the cheese, or unless the cheese has dried into an inedible, stale block, it's still O.K. to eat.

Japan cracks me up. And JT cracks me up for turning this into news.

 

Once I found an old cockroach in my shoyu dispenser at a sushi shop near Ueno. I suggested the proprietor change his sign to "Gokiburi-zushi" but he was not amused.

The Weekly Economist in November 2003 did a shocking story on how Japan is the biggest food waster in the world on a per capita basis. As I recall, the retail value of the box lunches and rice balls discarded by convenience stores comes to 200 billion yen a year. The food Japanese throw away, the article said, was equivalent to 80 percent of the total volume of ALL food assistance provided to needy countries in the world -- enough to feed 50 million people a year!

 

I never eat Cheeze for a reason. You dont need to eat cheeze, there is no reason for cheeze to be in Japan. It is a sign of western obesity and excess.. why would you eat fat. Go back to the old ways and live longer.

 

...obviously you know nothing of cheese!

This cheese was old because Mickey Mouse prefers original stuff!

 

The cheese (has/had) expired. Ha-ha. There is no such thing as expired cheese. Clever reporters joining a trend will be loading news channels with info about expired products, ranging from french fries and ice cream, peanut butter and jelly, to walnuts and raisins. And cheeseheads?

 

However, there are a lot of food products you don't need to eat. Japanese tables and restaurants are loaded with them. Fat is an all-time favorite. You are greatly misinformed when labeling cheese as a sign of western obesity and excess. Go back to the old days and live longer? Yeah - come on and get a life.

 

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I'm not sure but I believe the verb should be 'were' as the subject 'grams' seems to be plural.

And this is just a personal preference but 'some' could easily be replaced with 'About' or 'Approximately' and be much more clear and precise. (Clear and precise? while using 'approximately'? on JT? Wow.)

fireant

 

I'm not sure but I believe the verb should be 'were' as the subject 'grams' seems to be plural.

JT got it right this time.
The pricinple is called "notional agreement." It means that the verb does not agree with the grammatical subject.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1110/p18s02-hfes.html

 

I'm not sure that article cleared that 'grams were/was' thing as they were talking about plurals of things like teams, businesses, and the like. A gram is very much countable. I can see their point about 'cheese' being the focus, but with the specific (approx.) 140 grams that were used, it still seems to cry out for 'were.'

However, I learned something about grammar (revisionist?) so thanks for the link.

fireant

 

Looks like they have a handle on it at home... well, at Disneyland.

Thank God expiration dates are most times set for flavor than for safety.

LM

 

More here:

http://theslot.blogspot.com/2006/02/bunch-of-us-is-wrong_22.html

Moderator: Back on topic please.

 

for natto?

 

Who is the investigative reporting geneious that blew the lid off this story? I call for a mass boycott of all Disney!

 

I eat outdated cheese in my frig all the time
As long as it hasn't morphed into another life form,It's game!