# Pimiento Cheese
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pimiento-cheese/759255
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 6, 2016, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pimiento-cheese/759255 "2016-07-06T20:08:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2016, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pimiento-cheese/759255/21 "2016-07-07T16:56:08Z")
Googled it. “Better Call Saul.”
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2016, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pimiento-cheese/759255/22 "2016-07-07T17:02:56Z")
> [@Sattua](#):
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> I used to subscribe to Southern Living, which is why I know what it is. Never eaten it or had it offered, though, and I don’t know if I could buy pimientos at my grocery. Not ones that aren’t already stuffed into olives, anyway.
Sure you can. Look in the pickle aisle.
If you DO live in a pimiento-free zone (unlikely), just roast and peel some fresh red bell peppers. Same thing.
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2016, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pimiento-cheese/759255/23 "2016-07-07T17:43:00Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> Googled it. “Better Call Saul.”
Mr. Ehrmantraut also had a huge presence in “Breaking Bad”.
However, his fondness for pimiento cheese was not revealed until it was noted in that show’s prequel, BCS.
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### Author:  [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2016, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pimiento-cheese/759255/24 "2016-07-07T17:57:47Z")
I’ve never heard of it and it does not sound yummy to me at all.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2016, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pimiento-cheese/759255/25 "2016-07-07T18:20:56Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#):
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> I’ve never heard of it and it does not sound yummy to me at all.
More for us!
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### Author:  [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pimiento-cheese/759255/26 "2016-07-07T18:40:40Z")
I wan’ a p’minner cheese sammich rat now.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2016, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pimiento-cheese/759255/27 "2016-07-07T18:44:39Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#):
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> sammich rat
[Sandwich rat](https://cf.geekdo-images.com/images/pic1690252.jpg)?
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2016, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pimiento-cheese/759255/28 "2016-07-07T20:17:20Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#):
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> I’ve never heard of it and it does not sound yummy to me at all.
I am EXTREMELY partial to the foodways of the great American Southeast, own several Southern, soul food, and white trash cookbooks, and am a fan of [southyourmouth.com](http://southyourmouth.com). But you do have to be careful. Mandy’s recipe for “cheeseburger pie” sounded good to me, and I whipped one up once, and it was positively God-awful.
Pimiento cheese, though, is something I just have to try. I like the idea of substituting cream cheese for some of the mayo.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2016, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pimiento-cheese/759255/29 "2016-07-07T21:49:06Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> But you do have to be careful. Mandy’s recipe for “cheeseburger pie” sounded good to me, and I whipped one up once, and it was positively God-awful.
You forgot the [link](http://www.southyourmouth.com/2013/06/cheeseburger-pie.html). 😉
It looks mildly ghastly.
> [@](#):
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> So, we’re on that stretch before payday when all I have left in the freezer is ground beef. And I swear to you, if I eat one more plate of spaghetti, I’m going to lose my shiz.
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> Since we’d already had Hamburger Steaks with Cheddar and BBQ Onions, cowboy beans and meatballs in the last week, I was wracking my brain trying to think of something else to make with it.
You know what’s good to make with hamburger? _Hamburgers!_ :smack:
Ot tamale pie. Brown your meat (and onions, if you have any), add a packet of taco seasoning (or make your own taco seasoning), simmer for five or ten minutes, mix in a can of corn, put into a baking dish, top with cornbread batter or even just cornmeal mixed with water. Bake.
Or tacos. Brown a pound of ground round, add taco seasoning and simmer, put in corn tortillas. Eat them soft, or fry them for tacos dorados… Or make taquitos. Or wrap in a flour tortilla with some shredded lettuce and diced tomato and whatever else you want and have burritos.
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2016, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pimiento-cheese/759255/30 "2016-07-07T23:20:40Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> It looks mildly ghastly.
Really? I thought it looked gooooooood in that link, in a White Trash Cuisine sorta way. But it was a trick. It sucked.
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2016, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pimiento-cheese/759255/31 "2016-07-07T23:22:54Z")
Maybe…if an internal layer of Pimiento Cheese was added before popping the casserole into the oven…hmmmmm…
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### Author:  [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2016, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pimiento-cheese/759255/32 "2016-07-07T23:53:28Z")
> [@davey77](#):
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> It’s a staple in southeastern Ohio, as well. Great on crusty bread, topped with iceberg lettuce.
Yup. I grew up on it. Tastiest on a Ritz cracker.
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### Author:  [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2016, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pimiento-cheese/759255/33 "2016-07-08T01:45:49Z")
The last time I was at Whole Foods in Chicago, they had a sample of pimento cheese spread (and of course crackers to eat it on) so apparently it has managed to escape the South. 🙂
Fairly gloppy in texture, but **good** , and I dare say the Whole Foods cheese department carries only actual cheeses and things made with actual cheeses, not Industrial Process Cheese-Food. 🙂
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2016, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pimiento-cheese/759255/34 "2016-07-08T02:20:22Z")
If it’s gloppy, it ain’t pimiento cheese. It was probably made by some Yankee.
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2016, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pimiento-cheese/759255/35 "2016-07-08T12:11:20Z")
> [@silenus](#):
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> It was probably made by some Yankee.
So some Jan Kaas, or John Cheese, made it then.
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### Author:  [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2016, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pimiento-cheese/759255/36 "2016-07-08T13:52:06Z")
When I was growing up it was my “job” on Saturdays to make it for my dad. Does anyone else add a spoonful of peanut butter?
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2016, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pimiento-cheese/759255/37 "2016-07-08T15:11:59Z")
> [@silenus](#):
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> See, there is your problem. Never use a food processor for this. The cheese has to be hand-shredded. The texture is part and parcel of the dish. Food processor = mass produced crap. Hand-shredded = Grandma loves you.
That’s stupid. My food processor stuff is amazing, according to me and according to others and according to the empty bowl after every potluck. The processor has nothing to do with it. But thanks for your fine, nuanced feedback!
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