The Off Topic Topic

[Tamas]

Cheddar is awesome.
There's a reason every other cheese is cheddar.

I do like good cheddar very much, but I don't remember ever seeing cheddar outside of the UK.  "every other cheese is cheddar" is a UK thing

[Duque de Bragança]

I do recall seeing sometimes Farmhouse Cheddar in Paris, mostly in fromageries (specialized shops) so not your average supermarkets.

[celedhring]

Cheddar is very popular in the US, too.

In Spain not so much, but it's readily available in supermarkets.

[garbon]

Yes cheddar is a key cheese in the US/my key cheese. Though without snobbery, basic cheddar in America doesn't hold a candle to basic cheddar in the UK.

[crazy canuck]

Cheddar is a very easy cheese to look after and keeps well, in fact the older the better. Tragically this has led to its debasement  . The next time you are in the UK we must arrange a cheese tasting session; I will bring some of the cheddars available from my local supermarket. They are fantastic, they are also 3 or 4 times the price of the industrial stuff of course, hence the problem.

[Sheilbh]

Yes cheddar is a key cheese in the US/my key cheese. Though without snobbery, basic cheddar in America doesn't hold a candle to basic cheddar in the UK.

I mean there is basic rubbery cheddar in UK supermarkets which is fine for sandwiches (it's kind of Proustian of school lunch actually). But there is good stuff too. Sad that the ROTW (or at least North America) mainly gets the rubbery stuff

[garbon]

Yes cheddar is a key cheese in the US/my key cheese. Though without snobbery, basic cheddar in America doesn't hold a candle to basic cheddar in the UK.

I mean there is basic rubbery cheddar in UK supermarkets which is fine for sandwiches (it's kind of Proustian of school lunch actually). But there is good stuff too. Sad that the ROTW (or at least North America) mainly gets the rubbery stuff

The American basic is worse than the UK basic.

[Zanza]

You get the orange Kerrygold cheddar here, which is good for Hamburgers. Not sure if I've seen cheddar as a real piece instead of slices here ever...

[Sheilbh]

Wow

That's probably a sign your plastic chees is better. I feel like ours fall foul of one of those European labelling rules so they're called things like "Cheese-flavoured slices"

[PDH]

There are some decent supermarket cheddars, at least out west.  Tillamook makes decent cheddar, and a quite reasonable aged cheddar.  Along the coast of California and Oregon there are hosts of small cheese making outfits that really are damn good.

[Syt]

You get the orange Kerrygold cheddar here, which is good for Hamburgers. Not sure if I've seen cheddar as a real piece instead of slices here ever...

We do get small blocks of orange Irish cheddar at the supermarkets here, wrapped in cling wrap. It's quite nice, actually.

[Barrister]

You can buy some amazing locally-made cheddars at farmers markets around here, but mostly we get the mass-produced stuff (which is fine by the way, I'm not a cheese snob).

[crazy canuck]

You can buy some amazing locally-made cheddars at farmers markets around here, but mostly we get the mass-produced stuff (which is fine by the way, I'm not a cheese snob).

No snobbery required. Just taste buds.

[Zanza]

You get the orange Kerrygold cheddar here, which is good for Hamburgers. Not sure if I've seen cheddar as a real piece instead of slices here ever...

We do get small blocks of orange Irish cheddar at the supermarkets here, wrapped in cling wrap. It's quite nice, actually.

I like the Kerrygold cheddar as well and buy it occasionally. 

[Caliga]

I didn't know Kerrygold made cheese.  I've only ever seen their butter here (which is the butter I use for basically everything except for baking where you wouldn't be able to tell much of a difference).