# "We're having cheese!" -- Does anyone remember this commercial?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 16, 2013, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-having-cheese-does-anyone-remember-this-commercial/647436 "2013-01-16T22:45:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-having-cheese-does-anyone-remember-this-commercial/647436/1 "2013-01-16T22:45:50Z")

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My sister, brother-in-law, and I were discussing old commercials the other day.  
My sister had a memory of a commercial with a a guy saying “Kids, don’t be late – we’re having cheese!” He also says something about “so-and-so cheddar is very underrated” – perhaps Wisconsin cheddar, but she wasn’t sure.

Does anyone remember it? Any help would be appreciated.

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**Author:** ![Nuveena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a587f6/32.png) [@Nuveena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nuveena)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-having-cheese-does-anyone-remember-this-commercial/647436/2 "2013-01-17T18:22:01Z")

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I don’t remember this commercial specifically, but it sounds like it might br one in the “Aaah, the power of cheese” series. The one I remember is Christmas morning and the house is full of presents. The father looks awed as asks the kid what kind of cookies she left for Santa. She answers, “I didn’t leave him cookies. I left him cheeeeese.”

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**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-having-cheese-does-anyone-remember-this-commercial/647436/3 "2013-01-18T02:21:36Z")

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I like the ad where the politician turns down a plate of cheese samples, saying “I don’t like cheese”. Everyone stops and stares, and the kid (possibly the same one as in the Santa ad) says “What a doofus!”. Guy loses in a landslide.

[Here it is](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5v9i04XsqU) - I had forgotten that Bob Dole has a cameo: “What does Bob Dole think? Bob Dole thinks the guy’s a doofus!”