If anyone ate that much in a day they would achieve levels of anal retention that would make most political pundits blush
what? that seems impossible
CHEESE GROMIT
Let that sink in!
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.
Cows aren’t the only critters with teats yknow
Wasn’t this the exact plot of a danger mouse cartoon…?
What does milk have to do with American “cheese”…?
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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May interest you!
Of course they had to package it like it’s an ammo box or something
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 for 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.
are we still talking about Kraft Singles, here? because those have zero flavour
maybe I need to get a refresher on the differences between american cheese in Canada and in the US
If you think Kraft Singles have no flavor, then we must not be talking about the same thing. There’s much better American cheese than Kraft Singles, but I can’t imagine describing them as bland.
Make a cheese burger or grilled cheese sandwich with American plastic and one with proper Dutch cheese and compare. No way in hell the American cheese (like in the picture) wins.
Just because you don’t understand a food doesn’t mean it’s bad.
Just because you never had proper cheese means you don’t know what you’re talking about.
just because you’ve never had proper cheese
Do you seriously think the only cheese that exists in the entirety of the US is kraft singles?
I’m sure your cheese is delicious but I’m also positive I’ve had some cheese that’s much better, and I got it in America. It’s a big country.
I’ve had many different cheeses on my burgers. I’m sure I’ve even had a gouda burger. They can be fine if you’re going for like a specialty burger with other non-standard toppings, but a straight-up cheeseburger? That’s not what proper Dutch cheese is made for, so why would you use it like that?
Different ingredients are better in different contexts.
Gouda in the Netherlands is not the same as gouda from anywhere else
Cheese burger with Raclette cheese :p
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.
Cool. Another Dutch girl here. Hallo!
There are dozens of us!
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?
“It’s literally just other cheeses molten in milk and emulsified.” That’s solidified cheese sauce and still made from [insert country]-style cheeses. The “making cheese of milk”, the proces that produces actual cheese and flavour already happened.
I don’t even hate it, I like it on a burger or in Mac and cheese. It’s just not really cheese, and not really American. My question was, is there an actual American cheese?
The cream cheese is a nice one! I’m genuinely into cheeses and wondering what type of actual American cheeses there are.
Also, I find this a really funny analogy for USA culture in general.
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
Pretty sure it got popularized by being distributed to the troops in WWI (and then even more in WWII), not with McDonald’s.
Interesting!
I only know this type of cheese as cheap cheeseburger cheese.
But I can now find info about this “processed cheese” included in the rations for US soldiers.
France agrees with you but also looks down on your cheeses and calls all of them “Gouda” even if not from Gouda haha
Ah I don’t mind. It’s France, they only have Nice people in one city so I get it. And honestly, Dutch cheese is nice on bread but French cheese is a delicacy. Same with the bread. And I don’t know if you ever had Dutch wine, but I’m deeply ashamed we even dared to name it wine.
Nice pun.
Thanks I worked hard on it.
Thanks I worked hard on it.
Tryin’ to figure out which of those words is a city in France… 🤔
I just needed a win, I don’t want Toulouse
I’ve had some once at a restaurant in Amsterdam that was grown in Brabant, the sommelier said with climate change it was similar conditions to Burgundy in the 70s, but I certainly couldn’t taste that hahaha.
Cheese wise, I like them a lot but indeed they feel maybe a bit more utilitarian than a delicacy (like a lot of Dutch food actually), I would say that some of the ones with more age are tough.
I like to say, the Dutch eat to live, the French live to eat ;)
I like to say, the Dutch eat to live, the French live to eat ;)
It even goes as far as that we export the highest quality products and keep the shit ones for ourselves because we’re too cheap. Export high quality vegitables to France and import mediocre quality from Egypt for example.
Yes! I learned about this recently and to be honest, I was outraged haha. How I wish I could find a nice coeur de boeuf tomato for example…
…and Austria and Germany.
Y’all are a tad bit too adventurous with cheese to my Basque Spaniard liking even.
other dutch guy here, france makes moldcheese 🤮 and america makes plastic cheese, we are the only country that knows how cheese is supposed to taste
It’s a matter of taste. I love French mold cheese. But also the French, Spanish, Portugese, Swiss and Italians can make really nice yellow cheese. Better tasting than the average Dutch cheese if you ask me, although the Dutch cheese I buy on the market is really good and much better (and cheaper) than supermarket cheeses.
Please tell me it’s a typo/rage bait and they eat that much in a year
You actually think it’s possible to eat this much in a day?
This comm for my fellow red-white-and blue blooded Americans, and our cousins to the north and south, not limp-lilly Frenchmen, thanks.
And before you ask, no I will not get my blood tested, I cannot afford it
American here. Actually this is only about half of the cheese I eat in a day.
I would need three times as much to fill the cheese drawer in my fridge.
That’s a big fridge, but I bet you hear that from all the boys.
Its the ladies that are really impressed.
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.
please do not doxx me
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
i’m requesting french onion, not minestrone
“Very well. Let me just go and confer with our chef to make sure we can accommodate your request.”
[Distant, muted sounds from kitchen, including plates crashing and yelling.] “…Che Cazzo? Vai a dire a quel figlio di puttana di andare a farsi fottere, e se quel pezzo di merda chiede un’altra sostituzione nel menu, digli che gli taglio le palle io stesso…”
“I apologize, but the chef…uh…respectfully declines menu substitutions at this time.”
theres more cheese in the french onion tho
We’ll get you some parmesan for the soup.
It better be like 90 pounds of it
Barques got me
I wish I could takes credit for that one, but I tried to spell it from memory. I knew there was a ‘q’ in it, but not much more.
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Charles Edward Cheddarton’s. He’s a fat British mouse but runs a fine establishment unlike his American cousin.
Someone beat you to it. https://charlesefromage.org/website-design-for-charles-e-fromage-bistro
Holy shit, it’s a real restaurant (and a front yard business, to boot)!
I doubt they beat me to the idea, but they certainly did on executing it. That is glorious!!!
Charles Divertissement Fromage, non?
I don’t think we should count Wisconsin either. They have so much they wear it on their heads.
Speak for yourself, I personally eat 100lbs each day (200lbs on Sundays)
Casual!
*adn
I came to the comments specifically looking for this joke 😂
Same, didn’t find it so I got to make it myself this time lol
I believe they call this American Cheese.
Sorry, I may have skewed the numbers a little bit.
This is why it’s important to use median, not average. smh
If I could afford it, I’d eat that much cheese too.
It’s just 90 eurocoins of cheese Michael, what is it, 10 dollars?
