a ruling experience. DAY 39 [OC, brainmade]
(midwest.social)
maria ~
196have a treat.
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so i got a net of babybel. they are expensive, wow. but they are really fun treats too. so now you get to take part in the babybel experience.
they really are little cheese wheels, aren't they? i guess it's the easiest stable of shape to get with cheese. a ball would take up too much storage and is harder to eat. but this flattened circle shape is pretty good.
i really want to get cought up on posts so that means two more today. i have a plan for the first, the second will be more difficult. let's see.
i wish you a wonderful day and I hope that you treat yourself after a difficult day <3
This is precious and cute and really fun and well done!! I love it. & Unwrapping them may be the best part, although they're very tasty, too. I also like playing with the wax and wadding it up into a ball and throwing it at someone.
The way you put this together is very satisfying! It's like the closest I can get to doing the unwrapping myself without actually having any. Good job!!
Mother ate a lot of babybel when I was growing up, I think they were easy to work into weight watchers number things.
Why do they need paper wrapped around the wax?
Kinda like cling wrap on a banana
The wax is also not even compostable so idk what they're getting at with any pretense of environmentalism.
the wax burns fine
But if you don't add cling wrap, how do you make the chocolate covered banana nice and smooth?
I was so stoned once I ate them with the wax and everything. Still survived.
Anyone who dares to call these things cheese should get prosecuted and put behind bars.
What? Why? It's good chese. You can even grill it a bit to make it extra tasty
Clearly you never have had proper French, Italian, Dutch, British (yes they can do it too), Spanish, Portuguese and/or Swiss cheese.
These things are just tasteless factory junk.
Nah, the other comment was rough in its delivery but I agree, Babybel is one of these things that didn't hold up to my childhood memories when I tried it again as an adult, it's not bad, it's just mostly tasteless.
You forgot the most important part, playing with the wax!!
...and then saving the wax, because it looks useful and you'll probably need it in the future, and you've been doing this for a while and now you have a big ball of red wax in the kitchen.
The forbidden snacc
I take these on multi-day kayak trips. Some day I'm going to gouge my hull and the wax will save me. I can't wait to be a sponsored article in the local news.
This is missing the part where you play with the wax afterwards :3
multiple bites? I always thought two of them is one bite
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am not connected with that company in any way vut ye I tried to make it look fun which... ended up looking like an ad so yeaaa >v<
Wait, they switched to paper wrappers? YAY PLASTIC FREE CHEESE
Yes and I really like the new papers. The plastic was often hard to open and it ripped into smaller pieces. The paper is super easy to open and obviously a bit friendlier to the environment. Which makes the product itself basically super ecologically friendly.
Wax wrappers are not compostable. They're also made with a petroleum mix. These are not ecofriendly.
OMG I WAS JUST EATING ONE WHEN I OPENED LEMMY AND SAW THIS POST!!!???
SO WAS I!!!!!!
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I get babybels for my boyfriend each week and yeah they're pricey! But unwrapping them is fun and they're a handy way to transport cheese for hikes and stuff :3
I'm glad they use paper now instead of plastic
yesss they are a really sweet treat.
apparently the paper wrapper is a roll-out thing so we will have to wait for 2027 for this to become mostly universal.
I bought some for backpacking and apparently they keep for at least 8 hours unrefrigerated 👍🏼
Absolutely. I never tried to test it, but the taste is the same, only the texture is softer.
Would love to know how they get produced, because I believe they create quite a sterile environment inside the wax. Like not fully sterile but like enough to keep it good for a couple of days.
They're wrapped in wax, I'd expect them to stay good at least a few days.
I can never get the second half of the cheese out intact.
I squeeze the corners of the wax inward a little, at the ends parallel to where you removed the strip and that makes it fully let go of the cheese. Then you can just take the full cheese out. Hope this makes sense if not I can try drawing it!
samsiesssss ~ i tried my best here, but you can see a little horizontal tare in the first "nom" image (where the shell is opened)
it's hard, but you can do it by just pushing the wax up a bit from below and that makes it come out. am surprised i didn't think of this as a kid.
ive never had one, what kind of cheese is it?
It’s a semi-soft cheese that’s mild and creamy in flavor. It’s closely modeled after young Edam cheese.
And you can clearly taste some slight sour notes, as you would taste in yoghurt.
It is a young cheese so does not really have a strong cheesy flavor
First off, aaawwww! OK, that’s said. I love having a babybel! Such a cute snack. Fun fact, in Canada the wrapping’s still plastic.
hmm interesting! just looked it up, apparently they want to make paper the standard until 2027 (yes, the babybel company specifically) also in Canada and US and northern europe. maybe it arrived here in northern europe.
