I’m in Austin. I’m used to California Mexican food. Burritos don’t have stuff on the outside and they aren’t deep fried. They don’t (I hope) have rice in them either. I don’t know what part of Texas you are in where you have “delectable and heart-stopping filling” in your burritos. Here in Austin, I’m lucky to find a single burrito on the menu and it’s usually just a little beef, bean and cheese, often (too often) with rice added as filler. I’m thinking of a burrito I used to get in LA which had beans, two kinds of cheese (NOT cheese food), shredded spicy chicken, a whole avocado mashed up, and sour cream. Eating it was an adventure in not busting out all over. Sigh.
What I meant was that the Mexican food you find in Dallas will be different from what you find in McAllen. They’re 500 miles apart, which is the same distance from New York City to Detroit, Quebec, and Fayetteville, North Carolina.
I know. I was just taking the piss. 
ETA: Apparently I’ve been watching too much Gordon Ramsay.
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Oooo… he’s a mean bastard, isn’t he? I used to love Kitchen Nightmares where he’d kick the asses of people who had no business running restaurants.
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Mmmm- now I want Jack in the Box tacos for lunch.
I get the use of the phrase “cheese product”, but “cheese food” has always left me faintly uneasy. Are there some types of cheese or cheese-like substances that aren’t food?? Or is it something I should be feeding to my cheese, like dog food is fed to a dog??
I guess it’s just one of those little things that weird me out.
OK.
Almost never.
Oh, no, no, no, Grasshopper. 
Jack in the Box Tacos are an abomination.
My bold.
Actually, yes. It is the food that the cheese feeds on. You feed it to small wheels of cheese and they grow into those giant truck-tire wheels of cheese.
My name is Kunilou and I use the stuff.
[The Teeming Millions gasp in shock and horror!]
I’m watching my cholesterol, okay? This stuff has no cholesterol, and it adds a little - ummm - body to sandwiches.
But, good heavens, DON’T try to cook with it!
If two out of the first four ingredients on the list are food starch and modified food starch I wouldn’t think it suitable material to construct a low carb treat even if it did work.
What is 'cheese whiz" made from?
It’s the processed sap from the cheese whiz tree. Vermonters don’t like to noise it around, but they’re planted among the maple groves. You haven’t lived until you’ve been to Vermont during whizzing season.
That got me. I burst out laughing at the end.
I love when the first green leaves unfurl, the sap begins to run, and you can hear the first sounds of the cheese whizzing.
I love the way the short, groovy poles hang from the trunk, channeling cheesy sap towards the whiz bucket.
I suppose you don’t like Wienerschnitzel Chili Cheese Dogs, either? :dubious:
Go to Freebirds! There are several in Austin, and they’re pretty much a CA style burrito from what I gather.
I prefer the smell of the boiling whiz, as they concentrate it before putting it into jars.
Thanks, bumb. I looked at their menu and apparently they want you to build your own. (The picture they show has rice in it too; turns me right off!) There are a couple of other places that offer this do-it-yourself burrito style (Chipotle; Qdoba) so I guess I’ll have to get used to that. I liked it when the restaurant offered some choices since then I might find a combo I would never have thought of. Maybe I’m just lazy. And none of these places seem to have good cheese (to get back to the thread topic). However, I will try Freebird.
Kraft Singles make a great pill delivery device for giving medication to dogs. I tried an off brand once and it was a complete mess, just impossible to handle.
I was intrigued with your microwave crisp method, and tried it with some Kraft singles (cheese product) we have had in the fridge for forever.
Came out crunchy and cracker like. I’d say Goldfish or Cheez-It wouldn’t be too far off. Not awful.