/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>7984482
spreadsheet autist here, I didn't post this thread. I'm also being accused of being "MN guy shilling", maybe you should just accept that it's fun to watch you people defend your shitfood, and that a lot of people do it

>>7921059
And here we have the commodity garbage cheese ghetto, aka WIDF - the cheese section. If you don't think pre-sliced bland pasteurized crap is the best thing in the universe, you hate America and have literally never even set foot here.

Just kidding. It just means you have a functioning palate.

>>7531691
Probably just got banned for extreme shitposting. Kind of like how Wisconsin cheese is banned from the good cheese section and stays in its own special ghetto of pre-sliced bland garbage.

>>6978029
this, tbh
>>6978027
the cheese curds are good. they probably make some decent quark, or at least you'd hope so. although they probably call it something hilarious.

as for "real" cheese, no thank you please. what they know how to do is slap the name of a european cheese on there, and then start parroting some talking points from their wisconsin dairy industry brochure. which only makes it worse because you can't help comparing it to the real thing, they should just call it something else altogether.

I don't know if it's regulations, or if it's just a fear of anything with the characteristics of real cheese (intense flavors, irregular textures, often visible mold), but they're basically incapable of going beyond bland and creamy. and even the creamy isn't a very rich flavor, it's like they made it out of UHT pasteurized skim milk or some shit.

>>6491663
Down here in regular America, we get a lot of imported cheese from Europe. At a grocery store, depending on the store it can be anywhere from 80% European to around 40%, with the remainder coming from the northeast and california, and a few random midwestern cheeses that somehow found their way into the good cheese area.

Generally we have a separate area for bad cheeses (from wisconsin).

>>6485755
>>6484215
>but anon, cheese is cheese

>>6449660

That's the selection, they have a separate section for fresh cheeses in water (feta and such, almost entirely local), and a garbage cheese section which is in this picture and the previous one. I didn't count either of those, but here is a final pic for humor value.

The counts, for what I'm able to read in these pictures, are:

1 Belgium
7 California
1 Connecticut
1 Croatia
14 England
20 France
1 Georgia (US state)
3 Germany
1 Indiana
2 Iowa
1 Ireland
18 Italy
2 Massachusetts
7 Netherlands
1 New Hampshire
19 New York
1 Norway
1 Oregon
20 Spain
6 Switzerland
18 Vermont
5 Wisconsin (not counting the garbage cheese at the end)