y'all, I fear my house is not going to be ready for this person to come look at it on Sat. I have taken 2 loads of stuff down to storage, stuff that was sitting around on the floor (shelves and framed pictures and whatnot that no longer are up on the walls), but I could easily take triple that and then still need to find places for a bunch of clutter.

This to differentiate it from "orange cheese," which is Kroger-brand cheddar.

Orange powdered cheese product in the can? Or chunk cheddar?

I deeply, deeply, DEEPLY love the orange powdered cheese product in the can and will, more often then not, eschew marinara sauce to top my pasta with powdered orange cheese product and butter.

Because, when I was a wee tot, I hated tomato sauce -- I wouldn't even eat pizza because of it. And so when my mom made spaghetti, in order to get me to eat it, she'd top it with that canned powdered cheese food product, on the grounds that it was similar to macaroni and cheese, which I loved. And it worked and I ate it.

So now it's this total Proustian comfort food for me, but the thing is, it's really hard to find that canned powdered orange cheese food product, so whenever I'm at the one store that carries it, I'll buy 4 cans. Because if I run out, there is hell to pay.

I do, these days, love a good tomato-based sauce, and will happily eat same. But there's something about the canned powdered orange stuff that makes me so happy.

I just had some nice pasta, and the good cheese was too melty or something. Also, I need to get the green-can cheese to put with butter on pita and broil. Delicious! And once referred to by my grandfather (possibly before I was born) as "those cardboard things," so that how I always think of them.

Is it New Guy? Because he seems like the kind of crazy fool who would taunt Batman.

He better know better. He looked crosswise at Hellboy (my lunchbox), but at least he knew to call him Hellboy. If he slams the Batfamily, I can hardly be held responsible for my actions.

What is green-can cheese? I am feeling culinarily culturally adrift.

It's Kraft grated parmesan, ita.

ita, it's grated/powdered "parmesan" cheese - it comes in a green tube-shaped container (paper covered container).

The inevitable cross-post!

So now it's this total Proustian comfort food for me, but the thing is, it's really hard to find that canned powdered orange cheese food product, so whenever I'm at the one store that carries it, I'll buy 4 cans. Because if I run out, there is hell to pay.

For some reason, my campus grocery store carries it. This store is maybe 15 feet square, if that, and has the oddest selection of goods I've ever seen. It has canned powdered orange cheese and several types of canned frosting. It has organic unsalted peanut butter, and Skippy. There is an entire aisle of potato chips. The only pasta they sell is the super-expensive organic one. The only cheese they sell is the really cheap processed kind.

The old campus grocery store that closed when this one opened used to sell whole frozen kosher chickens. At Passover, they'd have gallon jugs of borsht.

y'all, I fear my house is not going to be ready for this person to come look at it on Sat.

It's not a looky-loo-- this person is specifically interested in your place. That stuff won't matter.

Is it wrong that I like green-can cheese better than real Parmesan for most things I use it for?

If that is wrong, then I don't want to be right. In fact, I even discovered that I don't care if it's store brand green can cheese. I buy it in volume.

I use real Parmesan for some things, but it's wasted on the stuff I really like.

I am feeling culinarily culturally adrift.

Foreigner.