Untouchable … the cheese roll.
Chris frowns for a couple of seconds, then shakes his head. “Nup.”
“You sure?” I plead. “I reckon it’d be good.”
He shakes his head again. “Nup.”And that’s it: my grand plan for revolutionising the cheese roll, for taking a simple snack into a new stratosphere of gastronomic excellence, for shaking the cheese-roll-eating community to its very foundations, is scuppered by one word: nup.
Apparently, residents of Dunedin, in New Zealand, don’t take kindly to Aussie-come-latelys attempting to improve on a local tradition. Some things are brilliant in their simplicity and cheese rolls are, apparently, some of those things. The message I’m getting is loud and clear: if the cheese roll ain’t broke, don’t try to fix it.
I am, admittedly, a cheese roll rookie. Ten minutes before my suggestion, I’d never even heard of the things, let alone pondered ways to improve them.
It’s almost incredible there could be a foodstuff in the Western world I hadn’t already heard of – not because I’ve done a lot of travelling but because in this shrunken, globalised world of ours, word usually gets around pretty quickly about anything that’s good.
I think Trevor’s irrational dislike of cheese rolls is an aberration
Sounds tasty!
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I think you might find your ‘Dunedin’ delicacy in fact was invented in Southland.
Noe where again is your electorate?
Well it depends on whether you support the dairy farmers and get sick or you eat well and business NZ adapts and caters for that.
Our number one killer is cardio-vascular disease.
By the time a young Kiwi has fed on the national diet for 20 years, his veins are a bit of a mess and from there on it is all downhill.
Lots of info out there that is ignored as we are bombarded with advertising and false information. Even the food pyramid ( for healthy living ) had dairy folk right in amongst the “nutritional advisers”
I think a few more brains need to be applied to our diet and the offshoot could be that waiting lists in the public health system will disappear.
There is a whole industry based on heart disease, that saps our resources and does not treat the causal problem.
Cheese does not auger well in the health stakes.
Comment from a brilliant man and thinker.
“Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”
Albert Einstein
There is nothing wrong with a good feed of Spuds.
Think I’ll stick with me cheese on toast.
Cheese
Onion (and not those tasteless red onions either)
Granulated Garlic
Black or ground pepper
Toast under grill.
Cheese rolls or “southland sushi” cannot be improved upon. Mainlanders outside dunedin aren’t stupid, if there is a way they can do things better, they usually do. Dunedin is a classic example of having all the talent, all the opportunity but no ability to do it right. Shame, dunedin used to be awesome.
@John W –
Agreed
Except about this!!!!!!!!
“There is nothing wrong with a good feed of Spuds.”
Gulp,
Southern sushi does originate from further south. But us southern people are pretty united on many issues, including the colours of the Highlander jerseys.
So I reckon that the good people of Gore, Clinton, Riverton and Invercargill etc will forgive a Dunedin girl’s fondness for the southern delicacy and her desire to promote it to the world.
Let me introduce it to the Jafas. My fondness for cheese will be taken to another level.
May I have a recipe/instructions to produce a great tasting cheese roll please?
iRuss here’s the winning recipe from the The New Zealand International Science Festival ‘ultimate’ southern cheese roll recipe by Joy Jones
500 grams grated cheese – (Mainland Mild Blend or Mild Cheddar)
1 tin Nestle carnation evaporated milk
1 pkt Maggi onion soup mix
1 finely chopped onion
1 teaspoon mustard powder
¼ cup cream
Heat in microwave for 6 mins – stirring in between time, cool – spread lengthways onto long cut white bread from Marlow’s Bakery, South Dunedin. Roll into cheese rolls (3 folds).
What’s with this advertising of brand names, or is it ‘product placement’!!!!!
As an Invercargill girl I know they were invented there. Long live ASouthland cheese rolls and don’t let the Australians claim it as theirs.
Only one of the items of the reciepe will be free of GST if Labour wins.
Cheese on Toast
That’s on home-baked wholemeal bread with bacon in it (I was experimenting with different flavours and so that’s what I had available).