"Oh, hell no!"

This Monday during my class titled: "You Are What You Eat," we were discussing food scares and people's reactions to them. We talked about the recall on ground meat in public schools in MA, listeria scares with milk, ecoli in Peter Pan peanut butter, the bird flu in Vietnam, the spinach recall last summer, and more. We talked about how food issues come up and people immediately stop buying and eating that particular food item. This happens more easily when the scare is in a food item most people do not like any way. Take for example, high mercury levels in tuna. Not many people are affected by this scare because more people do not eat tuna on a day-to-day basis.


My professor posed a question. She said something like... What would you do if there was a mozzarella cheese scared?
Almost everyone in the class gasped in shock! One student got so heated and couldn't contain himself and shouted "Oh, hell no!" Not only was this funny, but showed how people would genuinely feel if there was a mozzarella cheese scare. Perhaps any cheese scare, for that matter!

Then my professor asked us to think about whether people would stop eating pizza...
Well, I though about it... I think if just mozzarella cheese was recalled, then people would not stop eating pizza. I think people would just make pizza with a different kind of cheese.
People love pizza and they love cheese. The combination might taste a little different, but I think people would try it, like it, and continue to eat it.

Well, I would at least. Would you?