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July 18, 2006
FEATURED CHEESE: Mini Babybel
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What's noteworthy about Mini Babybel is not so much the cheese itself -- a bland, moist semisoft -- but the packaging. Each Mini Babybel is sealed in red wax, wrapped in plastic and placed inside a tough, net-like bag. Freeing the cheese from these multiple layers of protection requires a tool (scissors to cut the bag), dexterity (to peel back the plastic and wax) and time (about 30 seconds, give or take). After the cheese has been consumed, one is left with a small, interesting piece of red wax. What can be done with this red wax? I'm glad you -- I -- asked. Here are my results:
-- Will the dog lick and attempt to eat the piece of red wax if it is offered to her?
Yes.
-- If balled-up and thrown at the kitchen wall, will the wax stick?
No.
-- What if it is balled-up and thrown at the kitchen wall again, but this time with greater force?
Still no.
-- If placed next to a heat source, will it get all melt-y?
Yes.
-- If dropped in a glass of water, will it float?
Affirmative.
-- Can the red wax be molded into a slightly creepy head-like shape that when viewed at just the right angle vaguely resembles an extremely tiny bust of a middle-aged Will Rogers?
It can.
-- After these experiments, will the red wax be truly, genuinely disgusting?
Indeed it will.
Posted by teb at July 18, 2006 08:03 AM