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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Someone beat you to it. https://charlesefromage.org/website-design-for-charles-e-fromage-bistro
I doubt they beat me to the idea, but they certainly did on executing it. That is glorious!!!
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Charles Divertissement Fromage, non?
I don't think we should count Wisconsin either. They have so much they wear it on their heads.
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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!
Your sarcasm is weak.
I've had more kinds of cheese in a day from one generic grocery chain than you can easily find anywhere else.
I lived in Wisconsin for a year.
I know there are a lot of cheese varieties in the US (although I couldn't name one original American cheese off the top of my head).
But when the only grocery store within a 45 minute drive is Walmart, it's difficult to try them.
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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 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.
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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.
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?
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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.
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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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Nice try, nacho cheese doesn't come in blocks
Where would a meal be without a tasty beverage to wash it down with?
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American here. Actually this is only about half of the cheese I eat in a day.
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That's the average, I eat that for breakfast. My local deli has twice daily cheese shipments just to replace what I had for breakfast.
Nothing beats a sausage, egg, and cheese and cheese and cheese and cheese and cheese and cheese and cheese and cheese and cheese and cheese and cheese and cheese and cheese and cheese and cheese and cheese and cheese and cheese and cheese and cheese and cheese and cheese and cheese and cheese and cheese and cheese and cheese and cheese and cheese and cheese and cheese and cheese and cheese and cheese and cheese on a toasted everything bagel.
This but on an asiago cheese bagel
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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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.
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It's in their constitution.
I will NOT let that sink in.
I have no idea what that thing has gotten into.
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Is that with the plastic on or off?
Plastic inside
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