American cheese

chillidoggy

Why is it all shite? Why can't I find anything that isn't processed rubbish? Is it something to do with regulations, or what? Why can't I get a decent cheddar, or some Brie? Anyone know the answer?

TTony

chillidoggy said:

Why is it all shite? Why can't I find anything that isn't processed rubbish?

I think this is a case of "the clue is in the name".

mike_l

chillidoggy said:

Why is it all shite? Why can't I find anything that isn't processed rubbish? Is it something to do with regulations, or what? Why can't I get a decent cheddar, or some Brie? Anyone know the answer?

Don't ever try American beer then.........it's like sex in a canoe.........

viz

I think this may shed some light on the topic:

VimFuego

TTony said:

chillidoggy said:

Why is it all shite? Why can't I find anything that isn't processed rubbish?

I think this is a case of "the clue is in the name".

this, basically.

 

Oddly enough, I know a couple of Sherman's who rave about this brand of mass produced, bland processed shit over thta brand of mass produced bland shit.

Which only goes to show, I guess.

Emp_Fab

Have you ever had the pleasure of reading your average American recipe ?  As a fairly keen cook, I do browse the web quite a bit for recipes and the absolute shite the yanks put in their food is jaw dropping.  The majority of US recipes I've encountered tend to have tins of soup / packet mixes for other dishes / already processed stuff as ingredients.  They always specify the brand as well !

Besides having freakishly bizarre tastes, they seem to be oblivious to the dangers of saturated and trans-fats and salt - even though the evidence is staring at them on the next table with Dumbo the waddling twat needing a motorised 'cart' to get his gargantuan arse from the table to the lard dispenser pipe.

I quite like watching 'Man vs Food', not because of the challenge aspect but because of the unfathomably alien concoctions some of these places not only make, but sell !!  Whatshisface (the host, who ought to be excluded from everyone's 'dead pool' choice for the next decade), stuffs this slop into his face and bursts into orgasmic exclamations of how this hideous plate of dead animal, salt, fat and chemicals is the most delicious thing to ever pass his lips.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01294/corn-dog-pizza_1294231i.jpg

http://8.media.tumblr.com/i2dw5nf19mathkz3X7uMHzAAo1_500.jpg

Dave_JustDave

Emp_Fab said:

Have you ever had the pleasure of reading your average American recipe ?  As a fairly keen cook, I do browse the web quite a bit for recipes and the absolute shite the yanks put in their food is jaw dropping.  The majority of US recipes I've encountered tend to have tins of soup / packet mixes for other dishes / already processed stuff as ingredients.  They always specify the brand as well !

Besides having freakishly bizarre tastes, they seem to be oblivious to the dangers of saturated and trans-fats and salt - even though the evidence is staring at them on the next table with Dumbo the waddling twat needing a motorised 'cart' to get his gargantuan arse from the table to the lard dispenser pipe.

I quite like watching 'Man vs Food', not because of the challenge aspect but because of the unfathomably alien concoctions some of these places not only make, but sell !!  Whatshisface (the host, who ought to be excluded from everyone's 'dead pool' choice for the next decade), stuffs this slop into his face and bursts into orgasmic exclamations of how this hideous plate of dead animal, salt, fat and chemicals is the most delicious thing to ever pass his lips.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01294/corn-dog-pizza_1294231i.jpg

http://8.media.tumblr.com/i2dw5nf19mathkz3X7uMHzAAo1_500.jpg

As an American, all I can do is agree with you 100% and hang my head in shame.

mike_l

Emp_Fab said:

 

http://8.media.tumblr.com/i2dw5nf19mathkz3X7uMHzAAo1_500.jpg

That looks better than most post-pub kebabs...........
:-S

strumjoughlamps

On that MvF program the only thing I am ever jealous of its their corned beef 

chillidoggy

And still nobody had answered the original question? Well, I am disappointed!

WezV

Don't they have some regulations about cheeses made from raw milk?

something like anything made from unpasteurised is illegal....  A quick search shows its anything from raw milk that has been matured for less than 60 days.

FDA

http://www.fda.gov/Food/ResourcesForYou/consumers/ucm079516.htm

http://americablog.com/2012/12/is-it-easier-in-america-to-buy-a-gun-than-french-cheese.htm 

snakemanStoo

Isn't that the firearm list from COD?

Sporky

Last time I was in Americky I found a few places that sold proper cheese. Let's face it, our standard supermarket block cheese isn't a think of great wonder either. Though almost infinitely better than the US stuff, I'll concede...

When I was in New Zealand, which must have been about 20 years ago now, the supermarkets there seemed to only have two sorts of cheese "melty" and "tasty". Both lived up to their description.

WezV

snakemanStoo said:

Isn't that the firearm list from COD?

apparently so, and fully automatic weapons are not legal either.  The article investigates the truth  of the graphic but does focus on whether the cheese side of it is true rather than the weapon side

WezV

this thread is making me think of this

and in searching for that clip i am unsurprised to find out how many people have made them for real

Flanging_Fred

Listening to a bit of 'The food programme' on radio 4, there appears to be a pretty big upswing in the quality of both American cheese and beer in the artisan food sector right now.

There are some people over there producing really good stuff. It's just not in large quantities and you need to know where to look.

bertie

forget their cheese.................what about their poor excuse for bacon

VimFuego

their idea of good bacon is either more or thicker. Quality is rarely something that impinges on their thinking.

jaygtr

Just don't get me started on their guitars.....

chillidoggy

Bacon, yup their bacon is shite too.

Bucket

And their fizzy drinks, actually.

I had some Jolly Rancher soda once and it basically tasted like type 2 diabetes in a bottle. So many chemicals I'm surprised I don't have two heads after drinking a single bottle of that shite.

Snapple though, that is wonderful wonderful stuff.