What's Your Favorite Cheese!

do Europeans like American cheese?

@lemondrop said
do Europeans like American cheese?

Is there are a big difference between the two?

-VR

@Earl-of-Trumps
Smoked Gouda and chips and a nice red. Like a Louis Jadot Beaujolais Villages, a great red wine.

@earl-of-trumps said
I'm gonna love watching the Euros in here on this one. Me love exotic cheeses. Yummy

So name your fav three!

1. Brie
2. Gouda
3. Cheddar
* Special salad cheese, Feta

Some crackers, a stick of peperoni, and a good beer or two. Yes!

Having just returned from France I would like to nomiante

* St. Nectaire
* Tomme de Savoie

@earl-of-trumps said
I'm gonna love watching the Euros in here on this one. Me love exotic cheeses. Yummy

So name your fav three!

1. Brie
2. Gouda
3. Cheddar
* Special salad cheese, Feta

Some crackers, a stick of peperoni, and a good beer or two. Yes!

I do like Gouda with crackers.

Havarti is also very nice.

And, of course, the "single most popular cheese in the world", cheddar. Sharp is better with crackers, but medium on its own or with some fruit and french bread, along with a nice beaujolais.

@suzianne said
I do like Gouda with crackers.

Havarti is also very nice.

And, of course, the "single most popular cheese in the world", cheddar. Sharp is better with crackers, but medium on its own or with some fruit and french bread, along with a nice beaujolais.

Cheddar if you please! 😉

Also Beaujolias.

Not sure if havarti is capitalised or not ...

@wolfgang59 said
Cheddar if you please! 😉

Also Beaujolias.

Not sure if havarti is capitalised or not ...

Since I am NOT referring to locations, but rather the cheese and the wine in a rather general fashion, lower-case is correct.

Would you still capitalize cheddar that is NOT from England? Why?

@suzianne said
Since I am NOT referring to locations, but rather the cheese and the wine in a rather general fashion, lower-case is correct.

Would you still capitalize cheddar that is NOT from England? Why?

Mmmm, perhaps US usage is different.
(Why did you capitalise Havarti and Gouda?)

The general rule is that food and drink named after places is capitalised.

And yes, I would capitalise Cheddar not from Cheddar.
Because it is a named after a place.

@wolfgang59 said
Mmmm, perhaps US usage is different.
(Why did you capitalise Havarti and Gouda?)

The general rule is that food and drink named after places is capitalised.

And yes, I would capitalise Cheddar not from Cheddar.
Because it is a named after a place.

Havarti started the sentence, and well... I don't know why I capitalized Gouda.

@suzianne said
Havarti started the sentence, and well... I don't know why I capitalized Gouda.

Well you have a point with Havarti!
But gouda looks wrong - don't you think?

@suzianne said

Would you still capitalize cheddar that is NOT from England? Why?

Does such a thing even exist, except in name that is.

There is a huge range of Cheddar cheese in the UK mostly England, and while much of it is below expectation there is bamboozling choice of good stuff too.

I’ve not come across a “Cheddar” outside of the UK which I thought was a cheese of choice. I remember American cheese as being mostly processed in style and taste but perhaps I didn’t get chance to sample.

Cheddar trivia:

Before we were married I took my wife to Cheddar gorge and we climbed a sloping side of the gorge, which was a very reckless but fun thing my friends and I used to do in our “let’s camp at Glastonbury” days.

It was a problematic ascent and my wife started quietly crying about half way up when the footing became loose and the roots we were using for grip started coming away.

At the top we lay on our backs looking up at the blue Somerset sky as I wondered if she would ever trust me again. A family with their dog trundled happily past. My wife quietly said through gritted teeth “you mean there is a path up?”

@suzianne said
Havarti started the sentence, and well... I don't know why I capitalized Gouda.

Because Gouda is the name of a Dutch town 😉

@kegge said
Because Gouda is the name of a Dutch town 😉

Precisely.
As is Edam.

@divegeester said
Does such a thing even exist, except in name that is.

There is a huge range of Cheddar cheese in the UK mostly England, and while much of it is below expectation there is bamboozling choice of good stuff too.

I’ve not come across a “Cheddar” outside of the UK which I thought was a cheese of choice. I remember American cheese as being mostly processed in style and taste but perhaps I didn’t get chance to sample.

Try some Tillamook Medium Cheddar. It's worth it, but not sure if it would survive the trip to England. Working my way through a 2 lb. block in my fridge. This cheese has won awards. Or you can choose to remain provincial in your cheese snobbery.