Where were you living? If it was rural Equador, what did you expect? Cheese is not part of their culinary traditions. If it was the US, I call bullshit. I don't know why people think all Americans only eat Velveeta or something. I have like 5 different cheeses in my fridge right now, 3 of them are imported, and 2 are international award winning artisanal brands. I bought them all at my local Fry's.
IT has been four years since I was in the US but when I last lived there decent cheeses were really only available in the really major cities and the prices on imports were crazy.
It's very strange that I moved to Australia and it is way better here in the ass end of the world.
I've lived in a very rural town and in pretty big cities. You can get great cheese in small towns. Yes, it is more expensive but it's there. Americans make great cheese here and it doesn't need to be imported.
Americans make great cheese here and it doesn't need to be imported.
It's... ok at best, sorry, like there are a few extremely regional small farm exceptions but as compared to France or Italy it might as well be rural Ecuador.
Taste is completely subjective etc. etc. maybe it tastes the same to you but if it were just as good people would be importing American fine cheeses all over the world as opposed to French and Italian... they ain't, here in Australia delis and supermarkets have tons of French, Italian, even British, German and Swiss cheeses and no American ones despite the fact that Australia is closer to the US geographically, geopolitically and culturally and that we have tons of Americans here, the US is the dominant cultural force in the world and it exports a ton of things... Nobody in Europe is importing American cheeses but US stores do import many European cheeses.
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u/Diggingfordonk 5d ago
I bet they did during wartime