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Fearless_Baseball121 t1_jauxlmo wrote

Reply to comment by LanewayRat in [OC] Argentina & Venezuela Produce More Cheese Than Switzerland by latinometrics

Denmark is 455 thousand tonnes p.a. which is 78kg pr. Capita and your neighbors over at New Zealand does 76.1kg pr capita.

US does a total of 6.200 thousand tonnes p.a. and are not even mentioned on the graph.

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andyrocks t1_javgbwl wrote

>US does a total of 6.200 thousand tonnes p.a.

The difference being nobody in the civilised world considers it cheese

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coolguymark t1_javljiv wrote

There’s some incredible cheeses in the us. Go to Wisconsin and you’ll agree.

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andyrocks t1_jaw00ic wrote

No, because then I'll be in Wisconsin.

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ca_kingmaker t1_jaw8bpq wrote

No, actually it’s that their milk is so subsidized that dumping it is profitable.

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SentientKeyboard t1_jawgg1a wrote

Same tired trope about the US. It's like beer. The US has some of the best cheese and beers and wines in the world, but uncultured Europeans want to compare Kraft singles to their named cheeses when smaller farms in places like Vermont or Wisconsin are making incredible products.

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hidden_secret t1_jawuafd wrote

I mean, I'm just looking at the cheese you eat (stuff like cheddar!).

You might have incredible cheese, but if it's only eaten by 1% of the population, it can't be compared to cheese from other countries that most people eat in these countries.

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SentientKeyboard t1_jaxc4wo wrote

In that case, the majority of it that's being consumed is just as run of the mill as the cheeses in the US. And we're talking actual cheese, not a comparison in bad faith between American "cheese products" and actual European cheese, but the cheese that gets counted in production statistics as cheese. Just because people make up a specific word to call it and slap a PDO sticker on it doesn't make it more special.

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andyrocks t1_jawy2wc wrote

Which makes up a small fraction of those millions of tons of "cheese".

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vrenak t1_jawaxlb wrote

Because there's a little more to making cheese than making your milk hard...

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