Arnold N. Nawrocki, Cheese Innovator, Dies at 78 [INVENTOR OF INDIVUALLY WRAPPED CHEESE SLICES]

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[paulklenk]

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July 12, 2003

Arnold N. Nawrocki, Cheese Innovator, Dies at 78

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSrnold N. Nawrocki, the man who made it practical to sell individually wrapped slices of cheese in the 1950's, died on June 30 at his home in Sun City, Ariz. He was 78.

The cause was complications of kidney disease, his family said.

Mr. Nawrocki first tried to wrap slices of cheese with wax paper before finding a profitable way to do it with cellophane while working at the Clearfield Cheese Company in Curwensville, Pa., in the 1950's.

Wrapping the cheese — which required a seal that would keep oxygen out — stretched the product's shelf life from about a week to more than six months, allowing families and shops to store it and the military to ship it to soldiers around the world.

Mr. Nawrocki was not necessarily the first to wrap slices of cheese individually, but "his was the first practical apparatus," said Vincent L. Zehren, the emeritus director at Shreiber Foods in Green Bay, Wis., and the co-author of the book "Process Cheese." "The company I work for, we were able to do it much better," he said. "But this was the beginning. This was the first."

Mr. Nawrocki left Clearfield Cheese in 1972 to work at the Pauly Cheese Company in Green Bay.

He is survived by his wife, Jean Kettring Nawrocki, three sons and two daughters.

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[paulklenk]

LOVE IT

[paulklenk]

RIP, indeed.

[paulklenk]

Thank you for the snappy indexing.

[danmar]

He is survived by his wife, Jean Kettring Nawrocki, three sons and two daughters.

...but,but...uh how about the Moose?

[Catspaw]

Mr. Nawrocki left Clearfield Cheese in 1972 to work at the Pauly Cheese Company in Green Bay.

And I'm proud to say that he's a Green Bay boy.

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_11207230.shtml

[ricpic]

Another agent of progress (the downward path) leaves us.

Individually wrapped cheese is tasteless.

[mdmathis6]

I trust post burial he will be well wrapped.

[William Terrell]

It's sign of the declining times that American "cheese" is refered to as just cheese. Whatever American "cheese" is, it is not cheese.

[FreedomPoster]

Ah. Stilton?
Sorry.

[Velveeta]

Thanks for the ping. I'm not feeling 'gouda bout this sad news.

Q: What do you call cheese that is NOT yours?
A: Nacho cheese!

[Cyber Liberty]

A black day at the cyber household, Col. Klenk....

[LibertarianInExile]

Edam well wrapped American cheese better than any other human up to that point, and that's something you shouldn't brie joking about.

In fact, Havarti alerted the moderator about this string.

[MeekOneGOP]

Rest in peace, Arnold!

[MeekOneGOP]

[Calvin Locke]

I gotta call my mother. She'll be in mourning. Whenever I stop by her place, she leaves those d@mn wrappers on the counter.

(Lord help you for tracking in dirt, dust or mud in to the kitchen though.)

[Slip18]

"Pauly Cheese Company in Green Bay."

Any relation to you?

May he rest in peace.

[Slip18]

"Q: What do you call cheese that is NOT yours?
"A: Nacho cheese!"

You should write the little ditties on Popcycle sticks!

[Dog Gone]

There's still a fortune to be made for the inventer of individually wrapped slices of peanut butter.

[Young Werther]

His dream will live on as long as cheese racing endures! {snif}

Gentlemen start your motors!

CHEESE PLEASE!

[MeekOneGOP]

Sounds like a sticky situation to me ! < /bad humor >