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[Imperium]

Is it true that in general America has awful cheese?

[MidKnight]

Not totally, we're getting better. America's had less years of practice than most of Europe, but the cheese quality is just fine if you're not some sort of connoisseur.

[smoth]

Is it true that in general America has awful cheese?

Not really, I have been to france, ate cheese.

American cheese is different, not bad.

It is just people being silly.

[KaiserJ]

its not my freezer, but i wish it was. i suppose it's a local delicacy too, not sure if anyone else makes it other than a canadian company.

as far as cheese goes, north america is fine for mild, but if you start to look at strong/aged cheese, the good stuff generally comes from europe; also the chocolate we get here is complete crap compared to what i've had from the UK and europe.

local delicacies :
bacon and other delicious pork products
maple syrup
beer (yes yes, i know europe has amazing beer, but we at least can lord our beer quality over the americans... as the saying goes, let a horse drink a barrel of canadian beer, he will piss out american beer. make him drink american beer, and he will piss out australian beer)
poutine (a french canadian dish, fries served with gravy and cheese curds)
also our cigarettes are pro

[smoth]

Aussies have good chocolate as well.

[Wartender]

ajonjolí is the shit (sesame seeds with... i think it's caramel... or something like that)

[1v0ry_k1ng]

austrian processed smoked cheese is ace

[Forboding Angel]

"American Sliced Cheese" is meant to be eaten melted. By itself it's not that great. But there are all sorts of cheese... Swiss (awesome), mozz (also awesome), etc etc, and they are american made (at least in most cases).

TBH the Germans I know over here eat some really hardcore nasty ass european cheese, which leads me to believe that both are simply an aquired taste.

Edit: Speaking of beer... Even Germans in Germany don't drink it warm anymore. Maybe not ice cold like us americans, but chilled anyway.

From what I understand the climate in Germany is very very similar to the climate in Kansas City (missouri-misery, Kansas-Canned Ass) (which btw explains both the world wars, I'd be pissed off too), so I don't know why in the world after being out in the humidity you would want to crack open a lukewarm beverage. That's just insanity.

[pintle]

Speaking of beer... Even Germans in Germany don't drink it warm anymore. Maybe not ice cold like us americans, but chilled anyway.

From what I understand the climate in Germany is very very similar to the climate in Kansas City (missouri-misery, Kansas-Canned Ass) (which btw explains both the world wars, I'd be pissed off too), so I don't know why in the world after being out in the humidity you would want to crack open a lukewarm beverage. That's just insanity.

Room temperature ale has traditionally been the status quo in England since.... forever. There is a fundamental distinction between lager and "normal" beer. The process of lagering is basically chilled fermentation, ergo the beer is served chilled, "real ale" ferments at (ideally) 27 degrees Celsius and is optimally served at ~10-15 *C.

American big brand exported lager is piss, but so is Carling, Carlsberg, Stella, Fosters, Coors (is that actually Canadian?) etc etc etc. They are all bland industrially brewed carbonated/nitrogenated shite, irrespective of nationality, and America actually happens to have one of the best micro brewing communities on the planet, its just not mainstream, and probably never will be.

Its just so much fun to mock Bud etc (American super light lagers), which, imo, are markedly inferior to, for eg: Grolsch, Becks, Peroni, Tyskie... you get the picture

Edit: As long as you can get brie and emmental in the USA, I see no cheese problem :D

[smoth]

my dad has tried wines, beers etc he tells me Argentinian Malbec are the best wine in his option. I don't drink though so I can offer nothing in the form of alcohol critique

[Panda]

I like the cheese and chocolate in Europe better than the cheese and chocolate in America.

[Gota]

I like the cheese and chocolate in Europe better than the cheese and chocolate in America.

I understand you but i don't think its got anything to do with their actual taste.

[Pxtl]

my dad has tried wines, beers etc he tells me Argentinian Malbec are the best wine in his option. I don't drink though so I can offer nothing in the form of alcohol critique

Honestly, I tried a buttload of Malbecs while in Argentina, and while I enjoyed them, I preferred the cabernet sauvignons. Personal favourite was a cab sauv from a winery called Carcasonne (like the board game). Either way, the best reds I've ever had were in Argentina, but that's mostly because wine costs about 5x as much here in Canada so I had the freedom to try everything.

@ pintle

Every country has a shiat lower-middle-quality beer that is available in every restaurant and bar. For Americans, it's Bud. For Canucks, it's Canadian. In Argentina, it was Quilmes (a light lager, very similar to industrial American beers). And so on. The important thing to remember is that these beers are what you get when you're not picky about beer. People who actually *like* beer don't drink that.

Canadians only get to brag about our beer because it's so heartbreakingly expensive that it _has_ to be good. When the price starts at $24 for 24, and that's for the cheapest shiat in the store, you're going to demand something good.

[Panda]

I like the cheese and chocolate in Europe better than the cheese and chocolate in America.

I understand you but i don't think its got anything to do with their actual taste.

It has to do with their taste because it's an opinion about how they taste and this is, after all, a thread asking for opinions. However, if you were asking for more detail, I can say that the cheeses that I've tasted in Europe seem to have a more rich taste to them than regular American sliced cheese and that the chocolates seem to be quite different even though I don't usually eat much of candy and don't have a lot of experience with taste testing it.