why is cheese so god damned expensive?

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Lactose intolerance is the inability to metabolize lactose, because of a lack of the required enzyme lactase in the digestive system. It is estimated that 75% of adults worldwide show some decrease in lactase activity during adulthood. The frequency of decreased lactase activity ranges from as little as 5% in northern Europe, up to 71% for Sicily, to more than 90% in some African and Asian countries.

  On 2/25/2010 at 6:13 AM, hexagon son said:

not until you have lived in japan could you appreciate how expensive cheese actually is. you have no idea...

I was totally looking forward to cheaper cheese when I returned to Canada after living in Seoul for so long.

Fuck me.

The place in East Asia for cheese is Shanghai. Specifically the Carrefour* in Pudong.

*At least I think it's a Carrefour, it could be some other chain though.

Cheese

  On 2/25/2010 at 4:45 AM, æsterlingman said:

last year we went to Tillamook on the coast and saw the cheese factory in action... it was just like this:

Oregon coming up in the cheese world.

Cheese..

I was offered a free sample of Beemsterkaas yesterday at a gas station (wtf?) by a very friendly young lady.

One of my favourites.

My everyday cheese is generic medium aged gouda, at E8.5/kg.

  On 2/24/2010 at 6:49 PM, ET said:

never even thought of that. so its related to gas prices and gas prices are kept high as a means to keep society in a state of struggle, so it is a conspiracy!

just about fucking everything is related to gas prices unfortunately. how do you think every product finds it's way to your local store? by transport! ships, planes, trains and automobiles. all more or less powered by some sort of gasoline. as gas prices rise -> everything gets more expensive, especially imported stuff. also your dollar$ are a fairly poor currency compared to €uro at the moment so imported stuff is even more expensive once more. you really should learn some economics. :)

cheese is fucking awesome

I love smoked gouda

Because it's so god damned good.

I like chedder.

I am under the impression that here in usa it is illegal to sell unpasteurized cheese. We get Euro cheese but i think the cheese is aged a couple months before sale and naturally pasteurized that way, I dont really know, but it think this is the reason cheese is better in Europe. Here in the usa cheese is always refrigerated at the store. Is it that way in Europe?

my dad got meningitis from unpasteurized cheese in France, very nearly killed him.

Most of my relatives live in france, and they and no one that they know has ever gotten meningitis from cheese. Is your dad an extreme eater or something lumpy ? Trying things like that dutch (?) cheese aged in sheep manure.

Maybe though, given the super sterilized US upbringing. His immune system wasn't primed to jump on a bug from a cheese that had a dodgy source. (No offence mind, this is all speculative meandering ;-] .. It is terrible that he got that nasty thing)

On a side note to odd french foods. My mother is from Brittany, and when we visited there she wanted to buy this off-milk that they were selling in the supermarket, that was like some traditional thing. When we got it home it smelled rank, i wasn't going near it.

Cheeses is so good. Whack some Roquefort on cornish wafers and I'm yours.

wonr chez thad

cheese is disgusting & loathsome

as an ingredient = barely

on bread/crackers spread in dollops = NEVER

Noooo

"The cheese extends life. The cheese expands consciousness. The cheese is vital to space travel."

- Benjamin "Tesla" Einstein

  On 9/3/2016 at 12:06 AM, cwmbrancity said:

cheese is disgusting & loathsome

 

as an ingredient = barely

 

on bread/crackers spread in dollops = NEVER

Check yer pain meds lad, they're making you talk fookin shite.

omg cheese(!)

New fave atm is thin slivers of Comté paired with a bottle or two this dank as fuvk lovely:

  On 9/3/2016 at 12:06 AM, cwmbrancity said:

cheese is disgusting & loathsome

 

as an ingredient = barely

 

on bread/crackers spread in dollops = NEVER

ban

a life-time's disgust is honest, if digression is too far from social cheese norms so be it

have tried it enough times to know it aint me thang, bit like the watersports or Radiohead of foods

a teenage tour of Roquefort was like a mythical descent into the underworld

butter, cream & buttermilk are the psychic gods doe, but each to their varied own

WATMM is currently fixated on cheese in its various forms and definitions.

 

If you had to produce that much cheese from your own body, you bet your ass you'd charge a lot for it.

Aw I mess ET.

My friend made salad with these little white balls of boccconcini a couple nights ago.  Fuck my face those things are delectable.