The Off Topic Topic

[DGuller]

Really surprised we are so low on that list with our massive diary industry. Maybe we just don't export much.

This chart may be a little misleading for the US, I imagine a lot of our cheese is classified under plastics.

[Grey Fox]

You guys make powdered milk. It gets imported and added to local production.

[Sheilbh]

What's got you so cheesed off about Netherland cheese, Sheilbh?

I personally don't have a strong opinion on cheese from the Netherlands, but whenever I've passed through Schiphol the place seems positively overflowing with the stuff. I'm not surprised they rank so high.

It's really bad - yeah they fill the airport with it and the Amsterdam old cheese shop. But it's dreadful cheese (and from the regular moans of friends who lived in the Netherlands very samey) - and they should be ashamed of themselves being so close England and France who both make very good cheese.

[Syt]

I was about to say - gouda to me is the epitome of bland, generic cheese.

Austria has a decent cheese selection with several large and small producers. Based on the little flags on cheese counters and shelves, most imported ones are form Germany (Allgäuer Emmentaler), France (brie, camembert etc.), UK/Ireland (Cheddars), and Italy (grano padano, parmeggiano, mozzarella etc.).

One thing that annoys me that there's a bit of a trend of "hay milk" cheese (i.e. from milk cows primarily fed on hay), which gives cheese a slightly swetly smell. I don't mind it once in a while, but in some supermarkets the varieties take up 1/3 of the shelf space at this point.

[Sheilbh]

Austria has a decent cheese selection with several large and small producers. Based on the little flags on cheese counters and shelves, most imported ones are form Germany (Allgäuer Emmentaler), France (brie, camembert etc.), UK/Ireland (Cheddars), and Italy (grano padano, parmeggiano, mozzarella etc.).

Relatedly I am always very sad that the UK has failed so badly at marketing our cheese that cheddar (and often not the good one - see chat with CC - is the main one known) and not all the other ones especially all the blues, Tunworth, Yarg etc

I stand ever-ready to be appointed an official cheese envoy if that would help.

One thing that annoys me that there's a bit of a trend of "hay milk" cheese (i.e. from milk cows primarily fed on hay), which gives cheese a slightly swetly smell. I don't mind it once in a while, but in some supermarkets the varieties take up 1/3 of the shelf space at this point.

I've not heard of that - sounds interesting and I'd like to try but, yeah, it seems a bit excessive.

[Savonarola]

Really, Germany?     That is one country I would never associate with cheese.

https://www.globaltrademag.com/global-cheese-market-2019-germany-emerges-as-the-largest-exporter/

I guess that does make sense in that Wisconsin is America's largest cheese producer (and beats out everyone but California by a huge margin.)

[Duque de Bragança]

As a kid, I remember watching commercials on TV claiming "La Hollande, l'autre pays du fromage". I was not that convinced, but some Dutch cheese can be found in France. Not so in Portugal.

As for the chart, Belarus so high means they rename other cheese to export them to Russia to bypass sanctions or what?

[Razgovory]

Really surprised we are so low on that list with our massive diary industry. Maybe we just don't export much.

This chart may be a little misleading for the US, I imagine a lot of our cheese is classified under plastics.

Damn, you beat me to it.  The US leads the world in "pasteurized prepared cheese products".

[Syt]

Straight Outta Compton - Oktoberfest Edition

https://youtu.be/XLY4TsZBExY

[Razgovory]

I was trying to find why one of my mods in Rim World is acting weird when I found the greatest name of a thread:

Does tasing babies not stun them? Or does my colonist keep missing as he has no eyes?

The poster explains why he is trying to taze a baby

trying to taze the baby because it wouldnt shut up and kept causing mood debuffs to people in bathroom trying to have baths

Most people did not find this a reasonable explanation.  They asked why he didn't simply move the baby and he responded

Its either bathroom or prison because of the physic emnator and it wouldnt let me put it in the prison crib

When someone suggested they he just let the baby crawl around the colony the guy with baby trouble responded:

I tried, he just freezes to death as the only clothes he has right now is chains

After that the comments were less productive such as when a poster suggested that he simply cut the baby's tongue out.

One guy summed up the threat by saying

I keep rereading the thread and grinning lmao, what a trip. It's like one of those cursed images where there's a guy completely covered in armor made of wieners, with fire on his head, crying over a birthday cake with something in Tangut script written on it and a circle of his completely naked friends performing some sort of a ritual, with a person in a dirty Mickey Mouse costume supervising the entire thing, barely visible in the dark because the picture was taken with flash.

I am fairly sure this guy has been thinking about his "cursed images"  before the thread was started...

[viper37]

You guys make powdered milk. It gets imported and added to local production.

they export milk protein that gets used to make commercial cheese.

I have yet to see an american cheese in grocery stores.  Excluding fake cheese like Velveeta or Cheez-Whiz. 

[Josquius]

I was trying to find why one of my mods in Rim World is acting weird when I found the greatest name of a thread:

Does tasing babies not stun them? Or does my colonist keep missing as he has no eyes?

Well that's all horribly grim.
Nobody bothered to ask what the baby did wrong to deserve prison?


Doesn't help that as I read this I was stressing over a sick baby.

[Sheilbh]

Interesting tweet from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists:

ICIJ
@ICIJorg
Soon everyone will be talking about the #PandoraPapers.

The new investigation — our most expansive exposé of financial secrecy yet — drops Sunday at 12:30 p.m. EDT, 4:30 p.m. GMT.

Get ready for reporting from 600+ journalists from 150 media outlets in 117 countries.

Seeing reports that one big bank has already prepped its PR/damage limitation line and it is apparently going to be bigger than the Panama papers

[Savonarola]

You guys make powdered milk. It gets imported and added to local production.

they export milk protein that gets used to make commercial cheese.

I have yet to see an american cheese in grocery stores.  Excluding fake cheese like Velveeta or Cheez-Whiz. 

I'm surprised since Vermont is one of the larger cheese producers (in fact there's a Vermont Cheese Trail.

[Syt]

Apparently, this is a candidate for the Roman elections, for the Roman Historical Movement "List Nero":



(As candidate, shouldn't his toga be all white? )

Their program (you should be able to translate it in the browser):

https://www.movimentostoricoromano.it/programma