>>>Let's just say our cheese cultures (pardon the pun) are very different.
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>I'm telling you based on recent experience that it's changing. ;-)

So, there's hope? They finally have cheese with milk fat in it? Mind you, I'm now five years out of physical touch with the country.

>>>And Disney is an acquired distaste :).
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>Obviously you never took a photo of your 3-year-old daughter shaking hands with Minnie Mouse or accompanied a 2-year-old through "It's a Small world" or sailed with them into the Whale's mouth on the fairy tale ride? ;-) Sheesh, at age 15 I went on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride and even as an oldster almost as disgruntled as you, I still enjoy sailing through the attack on the fort.

I grew up on Mickey and Donald and the rest - in printed form. A short daily strip, two weekly pages, and an occasional movie. When I was about age 8 the first TV sets appeared, and we watched Disneyland around sunday noon... and by the age of 12 I had enough. The humor is shallow, the characters never get out of character and the plots were predictable even at that age and with only a couple of years of viewer experience (not redmondese this time). Later it only got worse the more I sampled.

To the point that we've spent a week in Orlando and our only contact with the corporation was when I missed a turn and had to drive down Buena Vista boulevard to get back to the highway. It looked like a cheap movie set, somehow sterile and lifeless.