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It's actually Monterey Jack, but commonly called Jack.
Ahhhh...so it's a blend of colby and monterey jack cheeses. I use a shredded cheese blend in my tacos every week and it has colby jack in it. So can you buy monterey jack cheese by its self?
Every Walmart doesn't carry the same thing! My Walmart hasn't been fully stocked since mid-March. You're lucky to find any cheese. Seriously some days there is no cheese.
I'm guessing Oaxaca cheese, which will be difficult to find except in a Hispanic grocery store.
We have many of those.
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Again, it would have been difficult to get American made cheeses in 1943 during WWII. It’s hard enough to get American cheeses in Mexico now. Manchego would have been the Mexican cheese, at the time, closest to American cheddar. In any case, Colby is now difficult to get anywhere due to a lack of production, with jack taking its place in Tex-Mex cooking.
Manchego is a Spanish, not Mexican, cheese.
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Ahhhh...so it's a blend of colby and monterey jack cheeses. I use a shredded cheese blend in my tacos every week and it has colby jack in it. So can you buy monterey jack cheese by its self?
Yes, and with peppers and a few other versions. I really like Monterrey Jack.
The first time I ever had Nachos, at age 13, they were similar in appearance to the picture that went along with the recipe I saw.
Ahhhh...so it's a blend of colby and monterey jack cheeses. I use a shredded cheese blend in my tacos every week and it has colby jack in it. So can you buy monterey jack cheese by its self?
it's thought that Monterrey Jack was probably developed by Spanish Franciscans in California. I'm not sure it reached any sort of popularity in the Midwest until sometime in the Seventies.
But then neither did Tex-Mex food. I had my first taste in western Colorado in the mid-Sixties.
I found a recipe in the NYTimes for what is supposedly the original nachos and it asks for Colby cheese. Simple, three ingredients plus dipping sauce if you want: fresh tortilla chips, Colby cheese, sliced pickled jalapeños. They even gave recipes for the fresh tortilla chips and pickled jalapeños.
BUT I cannot find Colby cheese anywhere!!! I can find at least 8 brands of Colby-Jack and find it in chunks, sliced, shredded, you name it, but plain Colby? Also, I looked it up and it's not just cheddar, so anyone who tells me it is is going on my ignore list. Please let me know if it exists near you and if so, what brand it is, so if any of those companies distribute around here I can try asking for it.
I haven't seen Colby since probably the early 1980s. I'm not sue why, but it's gone.
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I always thought it was just called colby jack. So you can buy them separately?
