Can't win them all. Just find out where McDonald gets their cheese (probally some biochemical plant) and stock up.

nothing wrong with the vegetarian thing except the 100% all beef patty...

I heard McDonald cheese is close to plastic. So nothing wrong with the vegetarian thing, just everything wrong with the edible food part.

(especially with your French "semestre" eh, Mary?)

I remember something like that (the whole rennin thing) from the Polka Dot Door way back when... apparently my young brain was good at absorbing information like that and retaining it. and I do have to say that the whole extraction process sounds a little too involved and expensive for the likes of, oh say, the processed cheese manufacturers, but you're likely to find it in things like goat cheese, feta, oka, and all the other fine, locally/small-batch made cheeses available. They should say on their lists of ingredients whether or not they include rennin or rennet.

What I think will be a major roadblock for you will be things like eating out. ... Subway's famously friendly and knowledgeable sandwich artists are not likely to be willing to divulge the secrets of their cheese... or Boston Pizza for that matter.

I know there's vegetarian cheese out there, you're probably going to have to read some labels to get a sense of what's available/likely though.

Rennin is only used (traditionally) in the production of certain kinds of cheeses (as I understand). So Par...you can eat some kinds of cheese? Maybe?

But as Chris said, you should check. Don't take my word for it. (Although my understanding is that natural rennet is the cheesemaker's choice).

But again - this is totally unsubstantiated Mary-blather. More like Mary-thinks-she-remembers-what-she-tried-to-not-learn-from-her-parent's-cheese-tour -of-Alberta-when-she-was-13-blather. That's right. My parents dragged my sister and I to most of the cheese producing dairies in Alberta and some in B.C. one summer. Sucked as a angst-laden teenage girl, sounds cooler to do now.

I appologize for any spelling mistakes - but as the semestre is over, I don't care right now.

Thanks, Beck. I'll let you guys know what they tell me.

And thanks, Chris, I think I may have to check up on that.

I'm pretty sure cheese is still safe. With the amount of cheese that is produced annually and the amount of milk it takes to produce 1 L of cheese, rennet from cow's stomach probably wouldn't be sufficient enough. At least that's what I learned in my milk production and technology class (yes, the UofA offers a course like that). Saying that, you should check.

Try here Par: http://www.snickers.com/contact.asp

Snickers no longer satisfies... nor do Mars, Bounty, and Milky Way, for me anyway.

The story is from the BBC, so it's not immediately clear whether the change applies in Canada, but their website magnificently lacks any contact information that I can find, so asking them seems kind of out of the question.

Ah well, at least I learned something about rennet, and I'm no longer certain about cheese. Great day.

Morgan Freeman as "Easy Reader"... who knew he was such a singer?



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