A Ridiculous History of Processed Cheese

Ridiculous History

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.3 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Let's be honest: cheese is inherently weird. As humanity advanced, civilizations leveraged positively alchemical science to arrive at the perfect cheeseburger melt. In today's episode, Ben, Noel and Max explore the evolution of processed cheese -- the not-quite-cheese that changed the world.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show fellow ridiculous historians.
0:29.3	Thank you, as always so much for tuning in.
0:32.5	If you can hear me cheeszing on the mic,
0:35.2	it's because I'm pleased as punch to be joined with our brain trust of a host of producers starting with super producer, Mr. Max Williams.
0:44.8	Oh, hello.
0:47.3	I'm here and you're starting with me.
0:49.6	Pleased as cheese, you might say.
0:52.7	Yes, yes.
0:54.0	Cheese is so hard.
0:54.9	I have cheese.
0:56.1	That's Mr. Noel Brown.
0:58.4	The condition.
0:59.6	Yeah.
1:00.3	Yep.
1:00.7	That's Mr. Noel Brown.
1:01.9	This is going to be an interesting episode for our pal max due to the condition.
1:07.9	I am Ben Bolin.
1:09.7	We are joined vicariously with our research associate,
1:13.1	Wren, and recently off-air, we had a brief conversation about foods that we're interested in.
1:22.8	We did talk a little bit about haggis off air after our Daring Gap episode.
1:28.7	But I feel like it's fair to say, condition aside, in principle, we're all fans of cheese.
1:35.8	I think so. Max, can you have vegan cheese?
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from iHeartPodcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of iHeartPodcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.