So I recently saw a Facebook event in my area about some sort of "Mottz" competition. Naturally, I believed that people were showing off mangy dogs or something, but I then became aware that it was actually a competition for cheese. See, "Mottz" is apparently short for mozzarella, and I don't mean the group responsible for maintaining Firefox.

Apparently, some people will spend hours of time and over ten dollars a pound on mozzarella. I'm not sure why, given that the stuff you can buy in the grocery store is a few bucks a pound and pretty good, but hey, maybe they're richer than they look. I ain't gonna judge.

Mozzarella has, in fact, become one of my favorite cheese. It goes great with chicken, which is the only meat I regularly eat, and the one complaint I have about it is that it doesn't stay nice and gooey for very long out of the microwave. Still, it's great to roast a chicken breast, throw some "mottz" on it as it gets finished, then pull it out, spice it up with some Texas Pete's or Frank's Red Hot, and eat it, even as you try very hard not to remember that it's basically a disproportionally large avian boob.