I occasionally buy groceries online. Well, except for fresh produce. Anyway, one of the stipulations for free delivery last time was that I purchase a loaf of Velveeta. I hadn't had any Velveeta since I was about seven years old, and my friend's mother put it on a sandwich. I thought it tasted pretty good, then.

Fast forward a little better than forty years. I'd seen the commercials about how well it melts in the microwave, and so on, so I figured "what the heck," and ordered a loaf.

So, just now I made a plate of nachos. I sliced and diced olives, tomatoes, sausage, jalapenos, and put some Velveeta in a 2 cup Pyrex measuring cup in the microwave to melt. I wound up with this thick gloop, so I poured in a little milk, and microwaved it again. After about 50 sec, I took it out, whisked it, and wound up with an acceptable consistency. So, I made up my plate of nachos, poured the "cheese" over it, and microwaved it for another thirty seconds.

No surprise here, perhaps, but it was AWFUL! In about a minute or so, it cooled and got this plastic feel to it. I wound up dumping about half the plate into the disposal.

So now, I have, sitting in my sink, a Pyrex measuring cup that has hardened Velveeta around the inside, I wasted food, and I have the rest of this plastic fake cheese loaf in the cupboard. By the way, it would have been much easier for me to make a bechamel and then a cheese sauce from that. Or, of course, to simply grate cheese over everything.

Does anyone out there actually LIKE this stuff, and if so, do you have any suggestions about how I can use the rest of it?

Not bad on a grilled cheese when stoned, but over all it should not be eaten unless one is hosting a hurricane party!

Eew. Um... I agree with Dane.

What restaurant do you work with? I'm in Florida also.

Um, I agree with Matthew. HORRIBLE stuff, but then so is most of the "cheese" on cheeseburgers from the national chains.

So, apparently in VERY small quantities, it's okay. Or, am I missing something? Is the "cheese" on my Big Mac somehow superior?

BTW, what is it about an incipient or actual storm that makes this crap better? :)

I'm in South Dakota currently. Executive Chef at Enigma.

Umm.. I don't eat fast 'food' so

What, NEVER? You've never eaten at a fast food place?

If your having a hurricane party in florida chances are three things will probably happen.

1) You will be drunk

2) You will be drunk without any power unless one has a generator

3) You will be drunk without power and velveeta will probably taste pretty damn good.

So, let me get this straight. There is drinking involved? :)

Dane: I live in Tampa during the fall and winter, so hurricanes haven't really affected me of yet.

Kelly: The last fast food I ate was probably when I was 15...

Being as I have NEVER in my 50+ yrs alive have I eaten a Mcdonalds burger of any kind and the only time I was subjected to velveeta was in mac and cheese.. Fortunately there were also some kinds of real cheese and it wasn't bad -till it congealed. To get me to try either would require lots of drinking and hurricanes or is that drinking hurricanes? Maybe not even then.

There are people giving that stuff to kids, there are people eating that stuff because they say it taste good. There is that generation that grew up with industrial food that do not know anything else. It is not their faults, their mother were told it was good for them. This is why there are so many obese people. They were told it was good for them.
Let's get away from all and I mean all industrial, prepared food. We have to give a decent heritage to our kids.

Velveeta (sealed) can be stored for months without refrigeration. A cheese sauce can be made with velveeeta, dry milk, cornstarch, water and some seasonings.

A week into no refrigeration and after a hard day lifting debris, Velveeta sauce and pasta tastes really good even without booze.

It's definitely backpacking and hurricane food.

Moms with negligent husbands, tend to hide away Velveeta for hard times when Daddy doesn't bring home a paycheck for a couple weeks. Then when they have some reaching it's expiration point, they add it to family meals to use it up. They don't always tell anyone WHY they sometimes make their mac and cheese with Velveeta :-)

These moms hide away all sorts of foods like Tang, dry milk and other dry goods that need to get rotated, used up, and incorporated into the family meals. They are like insurance.