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Now here is a truly remarkable cheese.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Saturday, 25 January 2003 18:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Esp. good:

1) with olives & red peppers of course, but also
2) in chunks placed atop come hot basmati rice & drizzled with spicy oil

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Saturday, 25 January 2003 18:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Feta cheese on warm bread. Fantastic.

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Saturday, 25 January 2003 18:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Generally not good. Needs to be used with care and moderation. Appalling choice for a sandwich filling.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 25 January 2003 18:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Mmm, creamy and salty.

Good in Spanakopita, and feta and tomato pasties.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 25 January 2003 18:16 (twenty-three years ago)

The invention of Feta:

1. A long time ago in Greece someone tried leaving milk out for a very long time to see if it would turn alcoholic

2. It didn't, it just turned into cottage cheese, and the people were very disappointed

3. Not to be dissuaded by the initial failure of the experiment, the Greeks decided to leave the cottage cheese out even longer to see if perhaps they could develop alcoholic cheese

4. Instead they got the Greek version of marmite/vegemite etc. and found that by putting it on everything they could prevent other civilizations from ever wanting to eat any of their food.

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 25 January 2003 18:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Feta is fantastic with phyllo dough in small doses, but I never think of it as a "cheese" cheese, like what would you eat while sampling gruyere and stilton and chevre and manchego. am i wrong? are there especially good kinds/producers of feta?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 25 January 2003 19:07 (twenty-three years ago)

The Bulgarian kind is awful.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 25 January 2003 19:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm fondest of French feta when having it with rice because it melts real quick & the texutre's nice, but take any feta you can get-a that's my advice

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Saturday, 25 January 2003 19:17 (twenty-three years ago)

This shit will make ya fat! Tons of salt for water retention plus fat for fat enhancement. Also, it works best with other fatifying foods like bread, olives, olive oil (yes it's good for you, but it'll make you fat, too), stuffed grape leaves.

Mmmm, we live in a Greek neighborhood and lived on the best stuff for about 3 years until we realized we were turning into fatties. Haven't had feta since the summer and it's my fay-vo-rite! Also, I'm an olive junkie.

― Scaredy Cat, Saturday, 25 January 2003 19:19 (twenty-three years ago)

oh no, not fat!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 25 January 2003 19:24 (twenty-three years ago)

you may try to scare me away from the feta if you like Scaredy Cat but you are wasting your time, I am hungry as a horse

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Saturday, 25 January 2003 20:09 (twenty-three years ago)

classic on pizza too!

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 25 January 2003 20:34 (twenty-three years ago)

TS: feta vs. democracy as their greatest cultural achievement

i vote feta

― geeta, Saturday, 25 January 2003 20:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Search also: mytzithra, manouri, and kefalograviera.

― Paul Eater (eater), Saturday, 25 January 2003 21:01 (twenty-three years ago)

mytzithra roxx!! also is best cheese name ever

― geeta, Saturday, 25 January 2003 21:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Place a chicken breast on a row of good streaky bacon, put a generous slab of feta on the top of the breast, wrap the bacon around the top and skewer with a cocktail stick. Roast. Serve with chilli roast potatoes and asparagus.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Saturday, 25 January 2003 21:34 (twenty-three years ago)

The Bulgarian kind is awful.

Yeah, it's a bit too sour.

Yummy quick snack: put feta and calamata olives, along with a drizzle of olive oil, inside a pita, and heat it up in your toaster until the feta melts. Mmmmmmmmm.

I hardly bother to go to the supermarket anymore (exc. for milk), I just shop at the local Lebanese and Iranian markets, where I can get all kinds of feta and olives and oil and..... I'm sorry, I'm going to go eat now.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 25 January 2003 21:38 (twenty-three years ago)

P.S. Does anyone else love pickled turnips?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 25 January 2003 21:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I am ashamed to say that during a broke period of my life I subsisted on the complimentary pickled turnips that a wonderful Middle Eastern restaurant served every evening during their (nonalcoholic) happy hour.

― Paul Eater (eater), Saturday, 25 January 2003 22:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Feta is awful stuff. You people are all completely bizarre.

― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 26 January 2003 00:54 (twenty-three years ago)

cheese, cheese, vegetarian please! i love feta, its second only to the feast of queens, blue cheese.

― di smith (lucylurex), Sunday, 26 January 2003 00:57 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

dooooooooooooood

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 17 May 2004 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Feta is bettah. Bettah than evah street.

― Skottie, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

feta rules!

(this does not apply to chalky "canadian" feta)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Feta is so wonderful that I'm going to get some right now

*leaves*

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 02:42 (twenty-two years ago)

...got to believe he's getting feta

― Paul Eater (eater), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 03:28 (twenty-two years ago)

...getting so much feta all the time!

(I know, it's not "believe")

― Paul Eater (eater), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 03:32 (twenty-two years ago)

feta's pretty good because it doesnt give me gas

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 04:16 (twenty-two years ago)

...got to believe he's getting feta

I got feta! mmmmmmm

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 04:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Glad to hear it wasn't an ill-feta'd experience.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 04:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm so much feta for it

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 04:26 (twenty-two years ago)

If you keep eating it you'll get feta and feta.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 04:27 (twenty-two years ago)

(feta black)

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 04:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Ed said Good in Spanakopita last year: yay CHEESE PIES (as they are listed in Cretan restaurant menus). I refrained from buying feta last night from a nice Turkish shop because I already have Caerphilly and Double Gloucester. *sigh*

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 07:45 (twenty-two years ago)

According to The Observer food magazine's Greek food expert - the best Feta to be had from major stores in the UK is from Aldi of all places.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 07:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Aldi have their import shit DOWN, man. Cheap-ass amaretto is my friend.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 07:46 (twenty-two years ago)

true, in France their meat is pretty fantastic too, not to mention - HORSE SAUSAGE

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 07:48 (twenty-two years ago)

mmm, feta, is there anything it can't do?

Works a treat alongside tabbouleh, and of course is classic with olives, tomato, cucumber.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 07:51 (twenty-two years ago)

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