Best imported cheese brands found at US grocery stores?

[Anonymous No.14380122]

Saint Andre is my favorite but what other imported cheese is widely available in the US?

[Anonymous No.14380134]

>>14380122
>imported cheese brands
Something with a PDO? I mean save yourself $100 per wheel and just get something from a local farm.

[Anonymous No.14380136]

Americans dont need important cheese. US cheese is good enough.

[Anonymous No.14380216]

>>14380136
>US cheese is good enough.

No, strangely enough, it's not. Maybe it's a chicken-egg problem of supply and demand, with retailers assuming that the comparatively small market of hoity-toity "connoisseurs" will want exotic imported cheese anyway. But there are also the laws to consider:

>In fact, some of the most popular cheeses in the world, such as brie are banned in the US. The USA does not allow unpasteurised cheese at all as it is seen as a health risk but this means your rule out huge numbers of delicious cheeses that must be made from raw milk. USA citizens can enjoy pasteurised versions but these are often cited as not being as good as the real thing.
https://jsbaileycheese.co.uk/2017/01/01/certain-cheeses-illegal-usa/

So much for "muh freedoms". I like the Costco brie but it might be nice to try the "real thing" someday. You can buy cheese made from raw milk from the same farmers who sell the raw milk directly (at least in some states), but tough luck finding it in supermarkets, lest Karen get a tummy ache and phone up her counsel from Shekelstein & Shekelstein. And due to these restrictions, the US has lost the stronger cheesemaking tradition that it presumably once had. (Think of what Prohibition did to beer.)

[Anonymous No.14380222]

>>14380122

[Anonymous No.14380245]

>>14380136
>>14380216

Just to add, nothing against the American cheeses that are available. Even "American cheese" proper--yellow food coloring all the way, baby.

[Anonymous No.14380262]

I wish I could get some authentic Cazu Marzu in the US. I wish laws and race and administrative regions didn't exist.

[Anonymous No.14380302]

>>14380262
>I wish I could get some authentic Cazu Marzu

And I wish I didn't look up what that was. But then again, maybe the difference is that we can't see the yeast/bacteria in fermented foods squirming around.

>I wish laws and race and administrative regions didn't exist.

Shouldn't you be out looting and defacing monuments?

[Anonymous No.14380311]

>>14380245

USDA doesn't allow American cheese makers to age raw milk cheeses or something. There are some kind of bullshit rules about it.

[Anonymous No.14380344]

>>14380311

I have bought aged raw-milk goat's cheese from a small farmer who legally sells raw milk from his few-dozen goats. But I can't say what restrictions the gubmint imposes (if any) on the aging conditions. The cheese, like the milk, has to be labeled with scary warnings. And again, it can be sold only directly by the producer. I think of lot of the rules vary from state to state.

[Anonymous No.14380361]

>>14380122
If you took the photo anon you need warmer lighting, it's too cold.

[Anonymous No.14380374]

it is 2020 and traditional brie still illegal in the land of the free.

[Anonymous No.14380399]

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[Anonymous No.14380509]

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[Anonymous No.14381998]

so what? yurofags are retards and constantly dying like the retards they are because they can't into proper sanitation. why try to emulate a dying continent?