Swiss cheese help!

[quiggibub]

I work in a supermarket and corned beef is on sale in preparation for St Patrick's day. This means Reubens galore for me in the near future. I like mine with swiss cheese, but the cheese available in my local supermarkets are, shall we say, boring. It's tasteless and plasticy, like supermarket provolone with holes in it. I'll be venturing to a

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[alicephilippa]

I like a good cave aged Gruyère.

Personally I think the only valid place for sauerkraut is in the bin. But YMMV.

[sparklediamant]

I agree about the sauerkraut - I'm told that my grandma makes The Best Sauerkraut, and at the age of 30 I still haven't tried it. The smell and the appearance as well as a taste of regular sauerkraut was enough to put me off it for life!

[quiggibub]

I feel the same way about wine. Every wine I have ever tried tastes like sadness.

[layers_of_eli]

ditto.

[lotus555]

just wondering, what's the correlation between st patrick's day and corned beef in america??

[quiggibub]

I have no idea. I'm just happy because it's cheap and I love reubens.

[wldrose]

When masses of Irish fled to america during the famine they lived in neighborhoods with a lot of Jews and adopted many of there customs of which Celebratory meal of corned beef was one.
(the brisket was a cheaper cut but not super cheap corning it meant it could be shipped in vast quantities from the mid west to the east where the irish and jews were)

But then again the traditions of the Irish Americans are different very different in the 150 years from the mast migrations, in some ways they resemble the times when they left rather than Ireland these days.

[lotus555]

ah, i see. Thanks for that.

[paulistano]

Gruyere or Emmenthaler is the way to go for swiss cheese. Delicious!

[randomstasis]

Imo,Jarlsberg works really well for Ruebens. it's a little stronger tasting. It doesn't really have that sweet flavor most Swiss does, though.

[xalle]

I'm sorry. I know this is kinda off topic and is going to sounds like a rant.. but where in the name of Christ did people get the idea we eat corned beef here in Ireland or that it is somehow a traditional Irish dish? It isn't. It never has been, it never will be. WE DON'T EAT IT HERE!!! I mean yes.. we eat corned beef, but it comes in a tin, it's imported from ENGLAND, it's not Irish.

Oh..and one more thing, if I see another bastarding four leaf clover being used for St Patrick's I'm going to start killing people. Clover and Shamrocks are NOT the same thing.

[dearnana]

Sounds like something for Reddit. I am kidding though.

I liked one of the posts above.

Wildrose wrote:
"When masses of Irish fled to america during the famine they lived in neighborhoods with a lot of Jews and adopted many of there customs of which Celebratory meal of corned beef was one.
(the brisket was a cheaper cut but not super cheap corning it meant it could be shipped in vast quantities from the mid west to the east where the irish and jews were)

But then again the traditions of the Irish Americans are different very different in the 150 years from the mast migrations, in some ways they resemble the times when they left rather than Ireland these days. "

[dearnana]

So considering it is America over here, that we celebrate the Irish American Immigrant custom that came to be after they immigrated here.

[xalle]

Oh I *get* that things change. Course I do. But the traditions aren't Irish no matter what way you look at it. St Patricks Day is a saints day, not "Irish American Day" and if you want to eat traditional Irish food, then you should eat that, not Irish American Melting Pot food. There is no point in saying "oooh we're eating traditional Irish food, when you aren't. Beef has never been a meal the Irish ate. I mean yes... we eat it today, course we do. But corned beef isn't Irish. Never has been, never will. It *will* never *be* a "traditional Irish dish". It's just something made up. It would be like eating Chicken Tikka Masala and claiming you are eating "traditional Indian food" when you aren't. You are eating a dish that was developed specifically for the western tastes when the Indian immigrants came to the UK. You wouldn't catch an Indian eating it claiming it was a traditional dish in the same way no-one here in Ireland would beat corned beef and claim it was a traditional dish either