I want your stomach lining and digestive enzymes INSIDE my cheese
I was browsing a pack of Woolworths cheese(I often like to spend my public holidays doing this) and came upon something on the ingredients list: “Non animal rennet”
Interesting then that I did not know what this is. It is a well known fact that I know almost any well known fact. Not this one it seems. I mean obviously I know what you are thinking now(You are a good writer), but this animal rennet thing had me confused. I Googled myself(Which is now why I have a lazy eye) and then later on Googled “Rennet”
This directed me to Wiki wiki wa-pedia where I decided to spin some vinyl for a while(Hence the wiki wiki wiki theme) After mixing the Wikipedia decks for a while I was suitably informed and suitably not hungry anymore.
Rennet is “a natural complex of enzymes produced in the mammalian stomach to digest the mother’s milk”
It goes even deeper, on the subject of calf rennet: “Dried and cleaned stomachs of young calves are sliced into small pieces and then put into saltwater or whey, together with some vinegar or wine to lower the pH of the solution”
I don’t know what this all means, and I was not keen to read on.
Look, that’s about as far as I got before I needed to make some ginger tea to calm my stomach, which is now feeling like a cement mixer.
Who ever thought to use stomachs and digestive enzymes to make cheese? I guess it’s kind of like the old school where they would use horses to make glue.(Read HERE for more information on that)
So when you are buying cheese, check the ingredients list. If you are cool with having the enzymes from the stomach of cattle in your cheese, then go for gold and take any cheese. I’m just mentioning though that the Woolworths cheese seems to be free of any of this.
Oh also to let you know Woolworths are going with the whole Christmas theme and are now selling turkey sandwiches with a cranberry sauce. Mmmmmm…come to think of it I wonder what Santa Claus is bringing me this year?
I sent a letter to the North POLE, asking for a supermodel to be gift wrapped and delivered to Casa del Lloyd, so I wait now in anticipation. He better give me what I want or I’m stealing his Reindeer and selling them on the black market.
How you like them milk and cookies, Santa?
Sean Lloyd
Editor
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