felony cheese making We live in a place where the phrase 'felony cheese making' actually
has some meaning. How bizarre and distressing.

http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?id=6794

A Southern California couple is facing criminal charges after
allegedly being caught with 375 pounds of "bathtub" cheese at an
open-air market in San Bernardino County, the California Department of
Food and Agriculture says.

The illegal soft cheese products are known to cause serious illness
such as listeria, salmonella or E. coli.

Floribel Hernandez Cuenca, 29, and Manuel Martin Sanchez Garrido, 44,
of Montclair, were arrested for selling a variety of unlicensed
cheeses to the public. Ms. Cuenca was also arrested on felony cheese
making charges.

Also see the hatchet-job at this place (notice the cat-and-tub, when this cheese had NOTHING to do with bathtubs of any sort):

http://consumerist.com/consumer/cheese/california-police-seize-375-pounds-of-bathtub-cheese-315849.php

The comments in both places are pretty incredible; both on the bad and
good side. My favorite:

Is there any evidence that the cheese was ACTUALLY produced in a
bathtub? Or is that simply a nickname that implies it's disgusting?
How do you know they didn't actually make it in sterilized food-grade
5 gallon jugs? (And they probably did, actually, you don't want to
lose a batch of cheese to the bad bugs). It's all about trust -- do
you trust a huge megacorporation with bought-off FDA inspectors (e.g.
look at how many recalls of factory meat there have been in the last
couple years). Or do you trust a local producer who you see every week
at the market, and whose family may have been making cheese for
generations in Mexico? I have no idea about the specific details of
this case, but it's a judgment call you make every time you buy food.
Factory food isn't necessarily any safer than homemade food.

Someone else notes the connection between brown skin and the charges,
and wonders whether maple syrup or apple cider vendors in Connecticut
would receive the same treatment.
  ¶ 10:05 AM