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Default Cheese shop visit

On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 00:52:18 -0700, "Julie Bove"
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>"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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>> On 10/27/2017 5:06 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>

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>>>>
>>>> The best place to get cheese over here would probably be Costco. I don't
>>>> think we have any cheese shops on the rock.
>>>
>>> Costco has good cheese and good prices but you have to buy so much at a
>>> time!

>>
>> We buy at BJs, pretty much the same as Costco. I can buy 12 ounce packs
>> of Cabot cheddar. If that is too much, cut it, wrap well to keep air out
>> and it will last months.

>
>No BJs or Cabots here. I think Costco cheese is usually around 5 pound
>blocks or bigger. Let me check. Yep. Blocks of cheddar are 5 pounds but you
>can get 40 pounds. Sliced cheese is often a 1.5 oz package. We can easily go
>through a 12 oz. block. One problem with a bigger block is that it can be
>hard to cut into and just deal with in general. And I like to keep a variety
>of cheeses. We do probably eat more cheddar than anything though.
>

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that must be just at the business Costco. Cheese is available in 2
places in my store. One place is just the upper end cheeses and those
packages are less than a pound to maybe 2.5 pounds max. The other
aisle has 2.5 to maybe 5 pound packages of name-brand cheese. Nothing
larger here.

Janet US