The average american only eats 2 ounces of cheese a day.
Charles Entertainment Cheese, who eats 7 billion pounds of cheese a day, is an outlier and should not be counted.
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When reached for comment, he replied "Please, Charles Cheese is my father. Call me Chuck."
Reminds me of a joke (kinda) thought I had years ago. Chuck E Cheese should open a fine dining white tablecloth restaurant called Charles E. Fromage.
I'm fully on board with this, provided they offer a prix fixe, 12-course meal.
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Hors d’Oeuvre: Parmesan bites with marinara
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Amuse-Bouche: Stuffed banana peppers
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Soup Course: Minestrone
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Salad Course: Caesar
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Appetizer: Cheesy bread with artichoke cheese dip
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Fish Course: Slice of anchovy pizza
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First Main Course: Slice of Hawaiian pizza
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Palate Cleanser: Orange sherbet
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Second Main Course: Slice of meat-lovers' pizza
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Cheese Course: Mozzarella sticks
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Dessert: Cinnamon rolls
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Mignardise: Chocolate lava cake and medium-roast Folger's coffee
Vintages:
1985 Coca Cola
1997 Pepsi Cola
1987 RC Cola
1996 Dr Pepper
1999 Mr Pibb
1979 Mountain Dew
2004 Moutain Dew Code Red
2004 Mountain Dew Baja Blast
2001 Sprite
1998 Fresca
2003 Barques Root Beer
2003 A&W Cream Soda
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Dutch guy here. That's not cheese. Don't you dare place that junk in the same category as our holy (pun intended) gold.
I'm sure France, Switzerland and Italy agree with me.
Look, nobody is eating cubes of American cheese and pretending it's gouda. It's for cheeseburgers and grilled cheese sandwiches. It's uniquely suited it. It melts better. The flavor is strong and unsubtle, which matches well with a well-seasoned burger or stands on its own in a grilled cheese.
Just because you don't understand a food doesn't mean it's bad.
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Dutch girl here. There is absolutely good American cheese. It's a huge place and they have a lot of great cheese makers, just like how europe has some absolute crap. Go to the Jumbo and pick up some "White salad cubes" and tell me they're better than this.
That said, none of this cheese pictured is good, or even mediocre.
Dutch gal here also, can confirm all that cheese is shite. I don't even get the appeal of cheddar.
Gouda and Emmer master cheese
True, there really are a lot of people making proper cheese in the US. Wisconsin has a large amount of Dutch-style cheese production (stemming from Dutch immigrants). There's plenty of French ("mold cheese" like camemberts) and Italian style fresh (ricotta, mozzarella) cheese producers. Probably proper British cheddar producers as well.
So yes. Tons of proper cheese being made in the US, all [insert country]-style cheeses though.
But what exactly is "American cheese" then? I'd say this can only refer to this plastic crap. The US exported this yellow dyed cheap plastic curdled milk through McDonald's, then the rest of the world started making "American style cheese" because it is cheap to produce and has a long shelf life.
I would genuinely be interested to hear if there's any exceptions? Are there any actual cheese making processes that were invented in the US that are not a derivative of immigrant cheese-making?
Any Native American (buffalo?) cheeses maybe?
American Cheese is made with Sodium Citrate which is totally fine to eat. It's an emulsifying salt commonly used in molecular gastronomy... It's not plastic. American cheese has its uses like someone else said. It's literally just other cheeses like cheddar or Colby, melted in milk and emulsified with the sodium citrate. What is so bad about cheap cheese that has a long shelf life? Not everyone can afford to eat the fancy mountain-cave aged Swiss alp cheese.
Besides... People have been making cheeses for thousands of years, like how many more different ways to make it can we come up with? It's all the same basic ingredients at the end of the day. There are only so many permutations someone can come up with. The rest of the world kinda had a head start.
Also I just thought of another American cheese invention. How about cream cheese? Do you hate that too?
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I used to for sure. I was raised in the midwest in the 80s and taught to drink milk by the gallon. Once I became an adult I stopped eating so much dairy and felt way better. The USA in the 80s-90s when I grew up was rife with health disinformation and straight up lies to the consumer.
On the other hand, I never saw so much cheese as when I went to Europe and saw the cheese aisles in France and Netherlands. And you can buy entire wheels at Euro farmer markets. Most traditional Dutch food is ham and cheese type dishes. I asked my Dutch friend his favorite food and he said he likes Thai food lmao.
OK, I no longer hate France.
Also, why wouldn't you drink milk by the gallon? You need to to have strong bones, that's why the viagra companies hate cows
America has more varieties of cheese than any other country in the world.
While they can be roughly grouped into 3 categories (White, Orange and Mixed), America isn't limited like other countries to using different milk, surface treatment and aging. Instead they can produce unlimited variety by adding specific amounts of hydrogenated mineral oil, synthetic flavoring, modified starch extracts, industrial waste products and high fructose corn syrup.
There's no end to the ~~creativity~~ profitability!
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The US would have to be made of milk. Idk what the conversion rate is, but we're talking a couple of feet of milk on the ground at all times.
I mean you'd have to make the cheese just for a spot of dry land.
Eventually, the milk would overcome the US and then the World.
It's the Milky Way.
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CHEESE GROMIT
Please, Wallace has standards
True story, i just had some lovely cheese. Costco as they do had some random wedges amongst the Jarlsberg and whatever. This one was "Cloth Bound Cabot" cheddar and it was the best cheese I'd had in a while. Sadly they'll probably never have it again.
American here. Actually this is only about half of the cheese I eat in a day.
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what? that seems impossible
Probably forgot to divide by days of the year.
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Yeah, that's about right. I love cheese in or on just about everything.
If anyone ate that much in a day they would achieve levels of anal retention that would make most political pundits blush
Cheese binds you up because in the fermentation process it produces an opiate, just not one that crosses the blood brain barrier and or gets you "high," it doesn't effect your brain, but the opiate does work on your opiate receptors in your gut, just like loperamide, the anti diahrrea med is also an opiate that doesn't cross the blood brain barrier.
My source is a little paragraph in a national geographic, it didn't give me any more detail than that and that is as I recall.
Little more than I needed to know but thx anyway
The pound must have gone to shit after Brexit if this is all that 90 quid'll get you.
Thoughts and prayers for the starving Brits.
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Not that particular cheese, but yes I panic when the cheese box is empty. Please, I need my stockpile of cheese. I think there is a national warehouse full of cheese too somewhere. Probably Wisconsin.
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