/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18789489
unpasteurized french cheese and butter from Normandy on a baguette. Those people know how to live

>>16994548
yeah man, it won't taste right unless there's a possibility I could go to jail for it

I couldn't believe how good the dairy products in France were. Bread with either butter or some kind of cheese was half my meals there

>>12652437
illegal brie

>>12432577
Pecans. Also flaming hot cheetos. And pic related

>>12122172
God damn USDA cramping my style

Bros where can I get decent brie in the states? What's a good brand? Does Trader Joes have good brie?

USAians, what is a good commercial brand of brie that I can get in a decent sized city? President is shit

>>9034664
it's a beautiful country with unpasteurized cheese

>>8852565
I'm reporting you to customs for tainting our glorious land with illegal cheese

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>>7952188
>venti
Nothing pissed me off more as a barista than fedora tippers who made a point of bringing up the fact that Starbucks has a weird naming system and discuss at length that they wanted a medium, "whatever that means to you." You don't have to play the game, but you don't have to be weird about it either. The history of starbucks and their infamous venti size is actually interesting and a microcosm of American food habits:

When they first started there were only two sizes and they were more comparable to what you would find in Italy: 8oz (a "short") and 12oz ("tall"). They made drinks with whole milk as a default. People complained that they wanted a larger size so they created 16oz "grande" which is Italian for "large." However the new size meant more calories, so people wanted 2% milk to cut back on that. The drinks didn't taste as good so people wanted more for their money. So 20oz "venti" was created. It means "20" in Italian btw. Concerned with the extra calories people started asking for skim milk and at this point SBUX uses about 2 times more skim as all other types of milk combined. The drinks noticeably don't taste very good on their own so they have to put all sorts of flavorants in to make it palatable

So as time has gone on Americans have managed to take a small, simple, naturally delicious coffee drink, dilute it almost to absurdity and drown it in sugar free vanilla syrup. This obsession with value over quality is the reason our produce is trash and pic related is illegal

They still have short cups btw

>>7815798
personally I'm not a fan of fresher cheeses they taste kind of bland to me

>>7725067
it sure can, but in america you can't transport it across state lines or import it iirc