Mr. Cruz, a Texas senator, has long professed his affections for the Wisconsin staple, which he had called his favorite food well before the laws of local pandering required it.
On Monday, he achieved something approaching political nirvana: an afternoon stroll, on the eve of a primary he is expected to win, through a placed called the Mars Cheese Castle.
Initially, there was disappointment: “When they promise a cheese castle,” he said upon arrival, “you sort of expect to be able to eat the castle.”
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Blessed are the cheesemakers, for they throw things at the FDA…
…and make the regulatory agency behave:
Late on June 11, the Food and Drug Administration, besieged by the outcry over a newly released document suggesting the agency would start banning cheese makers from aging their products on wooden boards, issued a new statement, putting an end to any likelihood that the practice would be banned – at least in the near future.
Come, I will conceal nothing from you: I knew that the FDA was going to walk this back. Why? Because, as Mary Katharine Ham noted (not entirely happily): the folks that normally would be all about pushing the regulatory state are also people that would go Full Metal Bugnuts if the feds took away their fancy foreign cheeses. Because people are always the most conservative about the things that they like or know the best. We see it every time.