The Anglican Church of Canada and Cheez Whiz

Dean Southworth invented Cheez Whiz. Not only did he invent it, he liked eating it. Until one day in 2001 when, on sampling a jar, his taste buds recoiled with disgust:

So it was with considerable alarm that he turned to his wife one evening in 2001, having just sampled a jar of Cheez Whiz he’d picked up at the local Winn-Dixie supermarket. “I said, ‘Holy God, it tastes like axle grease.’ I looked at the label and I said, ‘What the hell did they do?’ I called up Kraft, using the 800 number for consumer complaints, and I told them, ‘You are putting out a goddamn axle grease!’ ”

The reason for this less than satisfying culinary experience was revealed on reading the list of ingredients. Kraft has taken the cheese out of Cheez Whiz:

One crucial ingredient was missing, however. From its earliest days, Cheez Whiz always contained real cheese. Real cheese gave it class and legitimacy, Southworth said, not to mention flavor. Now, he discovered, not only was cheese no longer prominently listed as an ingredient, it wasn’t listed at all.

What has this got to do with the Anglican Church of Canada, you may be wondering. Simple: when you remove a vital ingredient from something it tends to become repellent. In the case of Cheez Whiz, the missing ingredient is cheese; for the Anglican Church of Canada, it’s Christianity.

2 thoughts on “The Anglican Church of Canada and Cheez Whiz

  1. Big Business took Christ out of Christmas years ago.
    Canada wouldn’t be the only place where the hierarchy in their infinite wisdom, or lack thereof, have taken Christ out of the Christian Church.

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