File Under: Things You Don't See Everyday

I was downtown the other day running some errands and saw something very interesting when I was stopped at the light at First and Oak streets.  There walking down Oak Street was an Asian family carrying bags of groceries from the 'hood Krogers (affectionately called Kroghetto).   In and of itself, that's not very interesting, and it's a common sight for that area of town.  The interesting part was what was in the almost see-through plastic grocery bags; three of the family members were carrying grocery bags full of huge blocks of cheese.  WTF?  I've never seen anyone coming from a grocery store with so much cheese.

First, let me preface and say that I am not prejudiced, nor am I profiling by ethnicity.  But I didn't think that Asian people used that much cheese.  A co-worker's wife and in-laws are from Japan, and I hear him talking about the foods they cook with rice, tofu and various seasonings and spices.  But I've never heard him say that they cook using a lot of cheese. 

I did a quick online search and couldn't find any information about Asian cooking with cheese.  Maybe there are recipes out there, but I couldn't find them.  Who knows - maybe that family just likes cheese, and it was on sale so they decided to stock up.  I hope they also had a box or two of Ex-Lax or Metamucil in their grocery bags, too.