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To: epicure who wrote (7037)	2/7/1998 1:24:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Exactly. No wonder we're such good friends. We agree on everything. And if you could catch a flight quickly, I happen to have an extra ticket to the opera tonight and would dearly love some company. I am forced to go alone, as none of our friends are elitist enough to enjoy breathing an evening of such refined musical air, and Dan insists on seeing Ammo's basketball game. The opera is Turandot and I've waited all season for it so I will pack up my mace and head into South Dallas solo. Puccini is worth the risk. I'll wear black and try to look mysterious. Maybe something romantic and cool will happen. I especially loved your rather startling leap into cheese. There is nothing more scarily pseudocheesy than that stuff that comes out of a can in a bright orange string, and that people spray on the ubiquitous Ritz cracker. When Dan and I first met doing 1776, I invited him to my apartment after a rehearsal for a toasted cheese sandwich. When I served it, he was horrified. "This isn't toasted cheese!" he exclaimed. I had made cheddar on wheat. For him, toasted cheese was American on white. It's a wonder our relationship progressed from that point. Could a man whose mother apparently served only American cheese on white bread find happiness with a woman who thinks American cheese must come from a seriously ill mutant cow and white bread is a combination of overbleached flour and Elmer's glue? Somehow we moved beyond that, though he still has a peculiar penchant for mayonnaise and peanut butter sandwiches.

To: epicure who wrote (7037)	2/8/1998 12:23:00 PM
From: BlueCrab	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Xunk, once again I must cross words with you. As a resident of Wisconsin, home to some of the finest cheese in human dairy endeavor, I can honestly say that Americans make (and improve upon) many of the cheeses you mentioned. They also make a great amount of the "American" and the processed cheeses because there is great demand for it. One must use CARE when attacking American-made cheese in THIS part of the world, or we'll see ya in an Oprah-style predicament. Your name has been forwarded to the Wisconsin atty general for closer examination of any cheese-related faux pas you may have committed...

To: epicure who wrote (7037)	2/9/1998 12:52:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I will NOT sit quietly and allow you to defame the flower of our, uhm, dairy culture. Cheese food product is worshipped by some present here.

To: epicure who wrote (7037)	2/9/1998 2:21:00 PM
From: Thomas C. White	Respond to of 71178

"They have never been to a symphony or ballet (unless forced to go with a school.)" I'll never forget the time they hauled my high school sophomore class off kicking and screaming to the Metropolitan Opera, for one of the daytime rehearsals (happened to be Otello with Jan Vickers as tenor). And Ricky Kahrs sat down, casually put his feet up on the seat in front of him, lit a cigarette, and sanguinely awaited the overture (which Otello does not happen to have). When the teachers rushed up to him in abject horror and admonished him to put the smoke out, he looked about nonplussed and indignantly pointed out that there was not a single "no smoking" sign to be seen anywhere.