have a treat.

alt image (catbox, high quality)

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

  • Zoop@beehaw.org
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    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!!

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      What? Why? It’s good chese. You can even grill it a bit to make it extra tasty

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    Mother ate a lot of babybel when I was growing up, I think they were easy to work into weight watchers number things.

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      The wax is also not even compostable so idk what they’re getting at with any pretense of environmentalism.

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      But if you don’t add cling wrap, how do you make the chocolate covered banana nice and smooth?

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    13 hours ago

    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.

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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<

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          17 hours ago

          pffff i’m not doing it for free, i get to read your peeps’ comments on it! and that makes me happy.

          thank you for enjoying the post <3

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            16 hours ago
            CW: veganism

            Tbh I would enjoy it even more if it didn’t promote paying for babies to be taken from their mother and slaughtered mere months after birth, but I can’t deny this drawing is really well done. I’ll just pretend it’s the cruelty-free plant-based babybel (which does exist!)

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              i get where you are coming from and i did consider using the vegan babybels for the post. buuuut i couldn’t find any of these at my local store so these were used instead.

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              Thanks to your unnecessary rant I’m going to buy veal this week. I have no problem with veganism and have had long stretches where I was meat free but nobody gives a fuck about your opinion on cheese.

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      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.

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        Wax wrappers are not compostable. They’re also made with a petroleum mix. These are not ecofriendly.

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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

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      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.

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      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.

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      It’s a semi-soft cheese that’s mild and creamy in flavor. It’s closely modeled after young Edam cheese.

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        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