Food / Making American cheeses (Polish and EU ones are terrible!) [100]

From what I have read, cheeses are often different even with the same name. I read that Monetery Jack in the UK isn't actually the real deal but it is similar. I guess I'll try this though. I really hope it is because this is my favorite kind of cheese.

I usually got high-quality American cheese from the deli. Just because it is reprocessed cheese doesn't make it somehow worse than "normal" cheese. I hate the myth that all American cheeses are terrible "fake cheeses" or somehow loaded with dangerous chemicals. The anti-American cheese crowd is very ignorant of the reality of American cheeses It is like Europeans think American cheeses are inferior just because they aren't from Europe. Which I guess would be a very American attitude to have? The typical Brit is just as arrogant as the typical American, so I'm not surprised by the view in the UK. I guess "father like son." The same over-processed "fake" stuff is made in Europe too, just usually isn't as tasty...

delphiandomine, I guess you are British...

@jon357
Thanks for the advice! I don't have a cool room, but maybe the basement would work...

@delphiandomine
haha the funny thing is, is that the mature cheddar at Biedronka is the ONLY cheese I regularly buy, except for renamed parmesan! It is great but it isn't good for cheese dips and some other uses.

@DominicB
I am from Chillicothe, OH. I used to even use Crisco for grilled cheeses. I hate the lack of peppers and hot sauces, but at least I have jalapenos. I wish I could find cilantro too though.

What makes them poverty food? I never heard it called that. Beans are kind of expensive. We had beans at every major family gathering (Christmas, Thanksgiving, etc). Many family members have unique recipes to make homemade baked beans. I bought a can at Carrefour yesterday and just ate the whole can. I really miss American baked beans. They are better than the British flavors I can get here. I want to find all the ingredients for them too.

@Lyzko
I definitely agree that 95% of fresh foods, like apples, are MUCH better in Europe. Yet Poles still can't figure out that corn comes in this fancy, green pacakging and doesn't need to be shucked and put in plastic. Poles have some great foods, like pierogi, krokiety, placki z gulaszem, and more. I'd still say good American food is more flavorful than good European foods. Why? Well, we have people from all over the world bringing the best foods to America! In the US, you can get low quality, cheap garbage of everything, even pierogi. This might be a big reason as to why Europeans look down on American food so much.

@TheOther
Every "special" cheese from Carrefour or even Tesco has been a bland piece of rubber. I don't know why European cheeses are so bland and rubbery. I gave up trying to get anything from the deli, except cheddars.

@johnny reb
You've got that right! Europeans are missing out ;)

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Food / American baking products (bread, shortening, etc) [19]

I don't know why American products are so often sold as British products, but every product on that page is American! Maybe I can get some Crisco. I bought some "tłuszcz do pieczenia" at Carrefour yesterday and I'll see how that works for biscuits (American bread, not cookies).

Food / Making American cheeses (Polish and EU ones are terrible!) [100]

@peterweg
If you define cheese in such a way that modifying it after it is in a cheese wheel, then American cheese isn't "real" cheese. But that is honestly a stupid argument just used by snobs to attack high-quality American cheese.

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