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You can buy american cheese in most grocery stores in europe, it's not even an exotic item. It's considered a superior cheese for making grilled cheese sandwiches and cheeseburgers, and isn't something europeans spend much time thinking about.

However, american cheese is considered to be "fake" cheese, an industrial simulacrum of cheese that is ultimately Not In The Same Category as Actual Cheese.

Europeans take cheese extremely seriously, to the point that the normally VERY strict food safety regulations are given specific carveouts for regional cheeses. There are a huge number of variations, and the public generally will not tolerate the kind of cheese americans normally buy and eat, which is considered lower quality.

Cheese is an immensely treasured and valued food item for a lot of people in Europe. I went to a play once, and the man I went with paid quite a lot extra to have a hamper of fancy cheeses delivered to him during the intermission. He admitted to me that he had spent the week leading up to the play looking forward to the cheese hamper, perhaps more than the actual play itself.

I mean, in Wallace and grommet, Wallace runs out of cheese and builds a fucking spaceship, because the moon is made of cheese and he'd rather risk death in space that go without cheese. Thats supposed to make us laugh, but more in the sense that it's an escalation of the 'usual' cheese obsession, rather than just Wallace being a weirdo.

Now think to yourself -- would you ever say the same thing about kraft singles? Of course not, and that's not even a dig at American cheese. American cheese doesn't inspire that and it's not trying to. It's a mass produced product designed for convenience, not part of a multi-centuries-old cultural tradition.

This is a lot less visible in North America. I grew up eating those humungous blocks of cheddar and mozzarella you get at Costco, and even the tier up from that was still fairly similar to those large blocks, if a little higher quality. And yes, if that's what you were comparing kraft singles to, you'd have to be a complete snob to shit all over american cheese.

But that's not what Europeans are comparing american cheese to. In the UK, even a small corner grocery store will usually have a larger variety of cheeses than a large north american store. The quality of cheese in a grocery store here STARTS at the quality you'd find at a fancy cheese store in North America . Even cheddar comes in three varieties, and even a cheap 'mild' cheddar is still vastly superior to the stuff I grew up eating. They're simply not in the same league, and it's not snobbery to say so, it's just a fact.

I remember vividly him telling me the shitty little Carrefour Market near the university had a better selection of cheese than his favourite fancy cheese shop back home, and they all tasted amazing. I don't think americans understand what we're trying to say. We're not snobbish and rude and judgmental, we're sad and sorry for y'all.