This episode is a master class in trolling French speakers decades down the line (it should be "omelette au fromage"/omelet with cheese. "Omelette du fromage" means omelet of cheese)
This is a shitpost community. Screenshot here appears to be Twitter and so the context isn’t quite the same. Without context, any shitpost potential it has falls a little flat.
This is just a statistical error. The average American eats 0 pounds of cheese per day. Cheese Georg, who eats thirty billion eight hundred thirty-four million pounds per day, is an outlier and should not have been counted.
The average human eats like 3 pounds of food a day iirc. If even a pound of that was cheese you'd probably die within two weeks. I don't get the joke in this post.
White gravy is basically just roux with pepper. You use the rendered fat (plus some butter) from the meat you're cooking, add some flour, let it cook for a bit and then pour some milk in. Salt and pepper to taste, there ya go, white gravy
If you're my mom or grandma, you use the crisco tub in the fridge full of used bacon grease, cooking oil, butter, margarine, and yes, even some crisco, and you make it with that.
I didn't know what I was fed for my entire childhood was nominally a "white" gravy until well into adulthood.
I think we're talking about different things, asparagus isn't usually topped with sauce in the US so I'm not sure what you're referring to. And cereals are usually eaten with milk
Yes, but so is white gravy, usually. The white gravy served with fried foods (like fried chicken, chicken fried steak) tend to be made with butter, but the white gravy served at breakfast (like sausage gravy on biscuits) tends to use excess sausage fat.
But if you go and make bechamel with a roux made from rendered animal fat instead of butter, it would still be a bechamel.
I shoved a couple of blocks down my throat during the national anthem. For lunch I microwaved a couple of blocks and added them to my coffee. My remaining blocks I'll probably have in a smoothie.
Cheddar is a god-tier cheese and puts European cheese to shame.
It can be made sharp or mild, hard or creamy, white or yellow,. It easily melts in a perfect way. It keeps incredibly well. Pairs well with almost everything. It can be improved by aging or smoking (and holy shit if you have not tried a good smoked cheddar you are missing out on life).
You can take any fancy, high-end cheese and there is some variant of cheddar that can go toe-to-toe with it.
The only reason it's snubbed as common and low-quality is because it's cheap and used so ubiquitously. But the reason for that is because, again, cheddar is a god-tier cheese.
And yes, I know cheddar was first created in England, but the US is responsible for industrializing and popularizing it.
Maybe I haven't found the right one, but the cheap cheddar here is like 'fantasy cheese' or 'cheese product' or whatever you want to call it, and the expense cheddar is more expensive then a range of local cheeses with similar or better characteristics, while the local alternatives are often cheaper. If locally it can fill your needs then power to you. As long as we can all enjoy our cheese in high quality and relative peace, everyone is winning. But in my locality it feels like I'm overpaying for underperformance.
Grilled some gruyere on toast tonight for a nice onion soup. Just telling you so you know you can trust I love cheese.
Yeah but cheese-like product is fucking good and tastes awesome on a cheese burger while Venezuelan Beaver Cheese or whatever the fuck they eat in France is nasty.
That industrial polymeriszed milk sold in the US we see over here in England as "American Cheese" is barely considered food stuff let alone cheddar.
Propper cheddar from England that's actually made for human consumption (not the cheap stuff or even the big brands sold here) will win over industrialised cheese in a one-on-one taste test hands down every single time.
Propper cheddar is on the same tier as other European cheeses and are chosen as the centre piece of a meal course because of the distinct flavours and textures.
However, the industrial "cheese" the US makes is perfect as an ingredient or topping in US fast food cuisine; it adds a cheese flavour and texture without trying to compete with the other flavours.
Hence why cheese singles or the European alternative of a thin slice of Edam are perfect for steam-melting on top of a burger.
I am fully willing to change my stance on this but I'll need convincing, if I find myself in the US where should I look for the best cheeses from the different varieties of available in the US?
Quite possibly, but from what I've seen via American media including cooking shows blocks of their cheddar still look like it has the same plasticy texture.
Like I said, I'm eager to be proven wrong, what are some genuinely good American cheddar producers?
Try some high-fat (38%+) cheese on a grilled cheese sandwich some time. You'll get a real cheese with this new thing called "flavor", that also doesn't melt in the first 4 seconds that the bread is being toasted, and once it is melted it will fuse with the bread and make you forget all about Jessica.
I used to work at a cheese plant; mozarella ain't that floppy when its a 40lb block fresh off the line. It also does not taste like much at that point; but it makes your teeth squeak.
I am mostly sort of a cheese snob but just this morning had Cuban cheese toast - Cuban bread with white american cheese - not swiss - and butter, pressed in the sandwich press. Such nostalgic food for me and utterly delicious, utterly without nutrition. Has it with a big ol' cafe con leche. Bliss.
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houndeyes@toast.ooo · 82 pts · 1d
I know what that guy's name means thanks to Dexter's Laboratory.
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 1d
This episode is a master class in trolling French speakers decades down the line (it should be "omelette au fromage"/omelet with cheese. "Omelette du fromage" means omelet of cheese)
BigBenis@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 1d
He said what he said.
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 23h
I too stand behind this comment.
echodot@feddit.uk · 10 pts · 1d
It's one of like three episodes that I can actually really recall with any accuracy.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 1d
Yes, some grated cheese in omelette (with extra egg) is great.
WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today · 57 pts · 1d
90lbs a day? Bullshit.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 113 pts · 1d
People would just lie in the shitpost sub? What a preposterous idea!
blitzen@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 1d
This is a shitpost community. Screenshot here appears to be Twitter and so the context isn’t quite the same. Without context, any shitpost potential it has falls a little flat.
Apytele@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 1d
Twitter is a shitpost community.
WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 1d
OP being shown wasn't in here. Although if that's Xitter, then the entire site qualifies, I guess.
antianarchist@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1d
It is called lemmyshitpost, not lemmybullshitpost. So they have clearly a point. /s
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social · 32 pts · 1d
This is just a statistical error. The average American eats 0 pounds of cheese per day. Cheese Georg, who eats thirty billion eight hundred thirty-four million pounds per day, is an outlier and should not have been counted.
13igtyme@startrek.website · 4 pts · 1d
Should use median cheese per day.
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de · 18 pts · 1d
you've clearly never been to America. My friend Graham eats at least 100 lbs a day
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 1d
How many kilo grahams is that?
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d
There's no cheese in graham crackers. Dummy
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
But there is hamrags.
owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 1d
Those a rookie numbers. If you're not slamming 100+ lbs of the orange every day, can you really call yourself American?
WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 1d
NFW I'm getting anywhere near slamming Chief Cheeto (unless we're talking newspaper headline style). Proudly "un-American" here.
StabbingSky@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 1d
If you're eating 90lb of cheese a day, there's no shit at all
db2@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
Not so, once you're over cheese unity the cheese flows like water.
leds@feddit.dk · 7 pts · 22h
Had to look it up, about 40 lbs per year per person https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/113732
kat_angstrom@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
It's true, a much smaller number than most of us expected.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 23h
Yes, they were exaggerating for comedic effect. It's actually WAY more than that.
dektep@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
no it’s true
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 22h
yeah who are these vegans they're interviewing
antianarchist@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1d
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 1d
Every ...day? I'm seriously slacking on my cheese intake!
FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1d
Dont worry, I'm covering your slack
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 22h
The average human eats like 3 pounds of food a day iirc. If even a pound of that was cheese you'd probably die within two weeks. I don't get the joke in this post.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 21h
9point6@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 1d
Jean-Luc Fromage is a fantastic name for a parody account
I hope this isn't a planetary alignment situation
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
From'unda cheese?!
Tattorack@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 20h
"Jean-Luc Fromage". That guy would know about cheese, for sure.
kamen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 8h
Where's the accent circonflexe?
wjrii@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 1d
Greymattertripp@lemmus.org · 2 pts · 8h
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 20h
90 lbs a day.
I call bullshit.
Exatron@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 18h
It's an average. That means there's at least one American out there eating more, possibly far more, than 90 lbs of cheese a day.
finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 17h
Fromage georg out here eating 10,000 lbs of cheese a day, skewing the average
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 20h
Man I wish I could afford to have 90lbs a cheese of day.
I'd finally experience happiness, both by having immense amounts of cheese, and from dying from eating immense amounts of cheese.
banazir@lemmy.ml · 21 pts · 1d
I hate to say it, but the French are right on this one. I feel dirty. Hold me.
HeHoXa@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 1d
Chut. C'est bon, mon chéri. Je suis là pour toi.
Jimbabwe@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1d
Don’t forget your 8 glasses of gravy per day! All part of a balanced American diet
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d
Start your day right!
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1d
And it’s gotta be that weird white “gravy”. WTF even is that shit? Is it just hot ranch dressing? 🤢
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 1d
White gravy is basically just roux with pepper. You use the rendered fat (plus some butter) from the meat you're cooking, add some flour, let it cook for a bit and then pour some milk in. Salt and pepper to taste, there ya go, white gravy
wjrii@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
If you're my mom or grandma, you use the crisco tub in the fridge full of used bacon grease, cooking oil, butter, margarine, and yes, even some crisco, and you make it with that.
I didn't know what I was fed for my entire childhood was nominally a "white" gravy until well into adulthood.
It was pretty good though, NGL.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
That's the fancy way. I make mine with cornstarch.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1d
White sauce? The one you pour over asparagus?
And they eat that in the morning müsli? 🤢
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 22h
I think we're talking about different things, asparagus isn't usually topped with sauce in the US so I'm not sure what you're referring to. And cereals are usually eaten with milk
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 22h
I think it's Bechamel sauce?
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1d
American white gravy is just bechamel/besciamella with lots of black pepper.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1d
Isn't bechamel usually made with butter? White gravy uses the rendered fat of sausage or bacon so it has that smoky savory flavor
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 23h
Yes, but so is white gravy, usually. The white gravy served with fried foods (like fried chicken, chicken fried steak) tend to be made with butter, but the white gravy served at breakfast (like sausage gravy on biscuits) tends to use excess sausage fat.
But if you go and make bechamel with a roux made from rendered animal fat instead of butter, it would still be a bechamel.
lemmyman@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1d
White gravy = puke
Bechamel = chef's kiss
Hawanja@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 18h
Did you eat your 90 lbs of cheese today? Gotta do your patriotic duty.
musubibreakfast@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 16h
I shoved a couple of blocks down my throat during the national anthem. For lunch I microwaved a couple of blocks and added them to my coffee. My remaining blocks I'll probably have in a smoothie.
Taleya@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 3h
bhamlin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 10h
Eat a verification Babybel
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 16 pts · 1d
Oh, you're French, Jean-Luc? No shit.
13igtyme@startrek.website · 9 pts · 1d
Does he have a British accent?
hansolo@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 1d
Oi, mate, sure as, I'm fuckin' Jean Luke, 'ere. 'ave a bit of cheddar on ye for the lads?
wizzor@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 23h
I have a feeling they meant the posh kind.
Rusty@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 23h
And based on his name he knows a lot about cheese.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 20h
Is this a photo where the cheese wears camouflage or something? I'm trying really hard.
It's very hard to say this, it really pains me, but... Here it goes... I agree with the French guy.
(I'm Dutch)
TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 19h
It's Semtex.
They found it during a raid.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 19h
Ah makes sense, thanks!
Is that guy who replied really French though.... xD holy shit, he looks more French than France. His surname is even fromage.
axx@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 4h
Uh, that's a parody account.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 45m
Yeah I got that
Tattorack@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 20h
Ja, maar, Dan heeft Nederland ook wereld beroende kaas, toch?
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 19h
Ja, flinke export ook, maar smaakt niet zo goed als in Nederland. Niet te vergelijken. Gouda bijvoorbeeld. Lekker in Nederland, plastic in buitenland.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 10h
Can you imagine how much it would cost if was actually real cheese? That's like 40% water by volume.
TheArtfulLlama@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 1d
Not sure this should be on a shitpost sub. If I’m eating that much cheese a day, I’m not doing anything close to shitting for a good few weeks
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
You had me in the first half, ngl
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 22h
You know what? Unpopular opinion time.
Cheddar is a god-tier cheese and puts European cheese to shame.
It can be made sharp or mild, hard or creamy, white or yellow,. It easily melts in a perfect way. It keeps incredibly well. Pairs well with almost everything. It can be improved by aging or smoking (and holy shit if you have not tried a good smoked cheddar you are missing out on life).
You can take any fancy, high-end cheese and there is some variant of cheddar that can go toe-to-toe with it.
The only reason it's snubbed as common and low-quality is because it's cheap and used so ubiquitously. But the reason for that is because, again, cheddar is a god-tier cheese.
And yes, I know cheddar was first created in England, but the US is responsible for industrializing and popularizing it.
Ozymandias88@feddit.uk · 26 pts · 19h
Dude, cheddar cheese was popularised by Henry II. The U.S. didn't even exist then
Jax@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 19h
Monterey Jack ain't nothin' to scoff at either
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 19h
Also Colby Jack my beloved. Seriously if you hand me a burger with anything else you're waking up with your own foot shoved up thine ass.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 22h
People don't like cheddar? There's like five cheeses I would say anything bad about. Cheddar is nowhere near that list.
CptOblivius@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 22h
Sharp and aged cheddar is amazing. I've tried cheese from all over and it does compete. Still my go to and Ive had a decent variety in my day.
Chee_Koala@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 19h
Maybe I haven't found the right one, but the cheap cheddar here is like 'fantasy cheese' or 'cheese product' or whatever you want to call it, and the expense cheddar is more expensive then a range of local cheeses with similar or better characteristics, while the local alternatives are often cheaper. If locally it can fill your needs then power to you. As long as we can all enjoy our cheese in high quality and relative peace, everyone is winning. But in my locality it feels like I'm overpaying for underperformance.
Grilled some gruyere on toast tonight for a nice onion soup. Just telling you so you know you can trust I love cheese.
Hawanja@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 18h
Yeah but cheese-like product is fucking good and tastes awesome on a cheese burger while Venezuelan Beaver Cheese or whatever the fuck they eat in France is nasty.
Hoimo@ani.social · 4 pts · 16h
Have you ever tried a blue cheeseburger though?
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 16h
That industrial polymeriszed milk sold in the US we see over here in England as "American Cheese" is barely considered food stuff let alone cheddar.
Propper cheddar from England that's actually made for human consumption (not the cheap stuff or even the big brands sold here) will win over industrialised cheese in a one-on-one taste test hands down every single time.
Propper cheddar is on the same tier as other European cheeses and are chosen as the centre piece of a meal course because of the distinct flavours and textures.
However, the industrial "cheese" the US makes is perfect as an ingredient or topping in US fast food cuisine; it adds a cheese flavour and texture without trying to compete with the other flavours.
Hence why cheese singles or the European alternative of a thin slice of Edam are perfect for steam-melting on top of a burger.
I am fully willing to change my stance on this but I'll need convincing, if I find myself in the US where should I look for the best cheeses from the different varieties of available in the US?
cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 15h
It sounds like you're describing your hate for American Cheese not Cheddar cheese which is different, even in America.
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 8h
Quite possibly, but from what I've seen via American media including cooking shows blocks of their cheddar still look like it has the same plasticy texture.
Like I said, I'm eager to be proven wrong, what are some genuinely good American cheddar producers?
Poppa_Mo@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 11h
I bet you have an air tight hobby coffin you hang out in so you can breathe your own farts all day.
LilB0kChoy@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 20h
This is how I feel about American cheese, but the real stuff. Not the crap Kraft sells (other than their deli style slices).
A slice of real American cheese melted on anything is amazing!
cattywampas@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 19h
American cheese is just cheese mixed with milk and an emulsifier like citric acid. It's as much cheese as sausage is meat.
LilB0kChoy@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 19h
Yep, that’s real American cheese! Best cheese for sandwiches and grilled cheese.
mirshafie@europe.pub · 0 pts · 17h
No it really isn't, what the actual fuck.
Try some high-fat (38%+) cheese on a grilled cheese sandwich some time. You'll get a real cheese with this new thing called "flavor", that also doesn't melt in the first 4 seconds that the bread is being toasted, and once it is melted it will fuse with the bread and make you forget all about Jessica.
LilB0kChoy@reddthat.com · 0 pts · 17h
Nah, I like real American cheese. It’s not really a grilled cheese without American cheese.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 22h
Even Mr Creosote could not eat 90lb of cheese a day.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 19h
He only orders a pound of fudge.
TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 16h
ITT: people passing off a lot of opinion as fact.
cattywampas@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 19h
That ain't nowhere near 90 pounds of cheese
crazycraw@crazypeople.online · 6 pts · 1d
all crammed into a single cheetoh..
WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 1d
If only they had anywhere near that much nutritional value.
sunbytes@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 7h
It's technically art supplies
"Modelling dairy"
boobookittyfrick@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 22h
Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 11h
Born and brewed in Wisconsin and a) I see a lot of cheese and b) not even we eat 90 pounds a day.
80, tops.
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3h
These comments are blowing my mind. Are people just pretending that this isn’t a humorous post?
No, Americans do not eat 90 lbs per day. She was making a joke.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
I could easily do a pound a day without thinking.
That's why I stopped buying cheese. The only thing I buy is 1 pound of grated Kraft cheese-analog per week.
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 23h
What kind of cheese is that? The yellow one looks like gouda.
Cort@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 23h
Yellow is most likely cheddar, and white is either Monterey Jack or mozzarella, but doesn't look flopsy enough to be mozzarella
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 5 pts · 22h
I used to work at a cheese plant; mozarella ain't that floppy when its a 40lb block fresh off the line. It also does not taste like much at that point; but it makes your teeth squeak.
Cort@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 22h
That's a fair point, I was thinking of the mozzarella in oil or other liquid which probably makes it less rigid
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 19h
To me, those all look like cheddar, maybe cheddar and monterey jack
Tommelot@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 22h
Fuck you for implying the Dutch had anything to do with that abomination!
Polisheocket@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 14h
Kinda funny how this goes, I’d like to see someone eat that much cheese and hopefully doesn’t die in a day
RBWells@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 21h
Le fromage americain?
I am mostly sort of a cheese snob but just this morning had Cuban cheese toast - Cuban bread with white american cheese - not swiss - and butter, pressed in the sandwich press. Such nostalgic food for me and utterly delicious, utterly without nutrition. Has it with a big ol' cafe con leche. Bliss.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21h
What's that?
A tyromancy starter kit?
Pacattack57@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 11h
This is like $1000 of cheese
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 20h
Scare blue.
Greymattertripp@lemmus.org · 2 pts · 8h
roserose56@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 22h
Roasted!
binarytobis@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17h