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What are your thoughts on American Cheese ?
- Thread starter MAJOR METAL
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Yes, but the French don't make Port...And the unfortunate thing is, is that the very best European wines and cheeses aren't exported...They're often home-made artisan type products made only for local markets, or for family and friends. Nothing like a handmade Azorean Cheese from a small herd (maybe 30 - 50 head) of free-range cows or goats fed with all natural grasses/grains and some of the purest volcanic well water and rain water on earth. Queijo da Ilha/Queijo do Sao Jorge...Look it up here: http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queijo_São_Jorge Try some/buy some.
American cheese from my Luckys deli is the best! My favorite cheese ever, cold. Melted cheddar is better than melted American though.
- Dave
- Dave
Always a fake-oily-processed flavour to me.When I was in France,local cheese,wine,and bread is what my friends and I snacked on.As far as cheese made in the USA-Boarshead is one of the best. BE Blessed Chaz.
I still prefer the following cheeses over American: cheddar, gruyere, jarlsberg, swiss, gouda, farmer's, feta, colby, montery jack, Wiz, etc.
But it does have a time and a place, and that's grilled cheese for me.
But it does have a time and a place, and that's grilled cheese for me.
Think of it this way, Bruce. We get so many great cheeses from Europe that there is no reason to innovate any more.When was the last time a new cheese was developed in the UK?
My village has started to produce some interesting cheeses. Personally I like Kingham Green- it is solid enough to brain a new born child. Also Alex James (the bassist from Blur) lives in my village and he has recently gone into cheese production. I have never had it but apparently it is pickled.
There are companies that make real American cheese, not just the rubberized imitation tasteless alien stuff they sell in the supermarkets. You would need to go to a Deli or a good cheese shop to get it though.
I've already mentioned it in this thread. It's called Little Whallop and it's a cider washed goats cheese (not pickled).
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MY thought is I just had some on a homemade meatball sammich on a hard roll with some provolone and big spoon of roasted garlic.
How many of you wish you was me?
fuhgedabowdit
How many of you wish you was me?
fuhgedabowdit
Errr...
...certainly not me!
I'll settle for some nice Emmental, Jarlsberg, Mascarpone, Feta etc. !!
...certainly not me! I'll settle for some nice Emmental, Jarlsberg, Mascarpone, Feta etc. !!
There are companies that make real American cheese, not just the rubberized imitation tasteless alien stuff they sell in the supermarkets. You would need to go to a Deli or a good cheese shop to get it though.
That's what it's like here too. We get the rubber stuff, ironically it's made by kraft too, bloody americans, but there is some killer cheese made here and by a huge number of people. There's an Island in between the mainland and Tasmania called King Island that produces world class stuff.
I guess you can't forget New Zealand too, they have very high quality cheeses.
Once I ate some goat cheese and ended up spray crapping in an alley in Cabo San Lucas and then cleaning up my butt with 300 thread count cotton sheets. Then we encountered a drunk prostitute standing between us and the car who kept showing us her boobs and demanding money. Good times. :scowl:
That's what makes us American.
America IS culture from all over the world, merged together to create OUR culture, and it's most evident in the food we eat.
But the question was about your thoughts on "American Cheese" - my thought is that there is no such thing!
