That's one of the things Europeans (anecdotally Germans and French) who work or study in North America complain about. Cheese quality and selection (and price!) here is crap. In fact, food quality here seems to be a notch lower.
Slightly off topic now, but I really don't understand how a nation like the US eats so much cheese, yet simply cannot make cheese :/ It's horrible depressing tasteless mush.
I wonder if there's a specific reason you can't get real cheese in the US.
As a french, I'm sometimes offended by what Americans call "cheese".
If I'd wanted to make a non-dairy pizza, I'd just remove the cheese and find other interesting ingredients. The world is too vast and beautiful to eat what the Americans call cheese.
Sounds like you didn't get out much. Sometimes I wonder if it's a joke that I haven't been let in on, or just willful ignorance. I hear it not just with cheese, but also bread, beer, chocolate, etc. High quality versions of every single one of those can be found with _minimal_ effort. You have to deliberately choose not to notice all the breweries, bakeries, dairies, and chocolatiers.
"You can't get good ____ in the US!"
Which might be true if you only ever shop at a supermarket or your only exposure to food in the US is a meme, Hollywood production, or the crappy nonsensical 'American' aisles you have in your respective countries.
I have never encountered this. I wouldn't argue the Americans are particularly interested in the specifics of cheese culture (pun intended), but the level of ignorance you're suggesting is hyperbolic.
You can make good cheese in the United States, cheese is really about the recipe (and how much cream was left in the milk).
There just is nothing like the culture of cheese production, US foodstuffs are awful quality because the general public buys it up for some unknown reason.
No offense, but as far as I can tell this doesn't even try to respond to the claim that there are great cheeses coming from the US today. It just propagates a largely irrelevant presumption that could be perfectly compatible with what it seems you're trying to disagree with.
I know there's a reason people like it, but when you can have cheddar instead, I still don't understand why anyone would prefer American cheese, other than nostalgia.
Great project anyway, very inspiring!
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