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Update, 4/12/08: Havarti wins narrowly with 51% of the vote.Brackets now updated for the Deli draw.
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Havarti is the goddess of cheeses in my opinion!
Havarti is lovely in its creamy goodness – but you cannot make half the things that are necessary to live without provolone cheese. Examples: chicken parm, italian hoagies, my mom’s French onion soup.
Go Havarti! Mozz is a perfectly acceptable alternative for parm, hoagies, and French onion soup (in my humble opinion – I’m a cheesemaker’s daughter, but I don’t profess to having his ability to judge in an unbiased way). Havarti melts on your tongue like butter, and I am totally on my way to the grocery store after work to get some.
Yum.
I’m totally refreshing my browser every few minutes to see where the results are at.
@Catherine- Sing it, sister! :-)
Havarti!!
Catherine, Gruyere purists are looking askance at your mom right at this very moment.
But I’m with you philosophically. As a resident of the greater Philadelphia metro, I feel like this place would be culinarily bereft in a lot of ways without the beloved Provie. Philly, help me out here… I think an OT upset by Provolone would make me feel better about my beloved Port Salut getting its ass handed to it. By a worthy opponent and all, but still.
Oh, and Sars needs an edit button so I can get rid of one of the two uses of “totally” up there. Sorry. Havarti apparently brings out rabid exuberance from me.
I went with Havarti ’cause I’ve never seen caraway, garlic and herb, jalapeno, or dill flavored Provolone. Although Provolone has its merits, the versatility of Havarti is certainly worth a win.
…And the Lord did grin. Yay, Havarti!
I think I have to come down on the side of Havarti. There are alternatives to provolone in ways there are not alternatives to Havarti.
I love Havarti (esp. dill and caraway). I don’t know a lot of those other cheeses in the other polls though. I do love me some Blue Costello and Cambozola but they’re “stinky feet” cheeses.
Y’all can have ALL of my blue cheese. Just give me the Havarti, and nobody gets hurt.