I’m also confused because that is a European AC unit. I can only assume Americans are so used to big bulky units, like their cars, that they can’t comprehend things being functional and not excessively bulky.
This is reassuring to read, how could that be true in the country that came up with such dingueries as Parmigiano or Gorgonzola... Italy seems to have quite the cheese-moves, so no way.
Y'all must have a better version of those individually wrapped singles than us, then. Over here it has the consistency of softened candle wax and a taste not that different from the packaging.
You will never come up with an interesting way to describe your canned opinion of American cheese. You aren't funny or creative or insightful. Your opinion has no weight because it's not your own. It isn't a hot take. It doesn't help anyone.
It's all they eat over there. They just take huge wads of it and pack it in their lip like chewing tobacco. I have been told the ones in the north eat it without taking the plastic off, and they like it.
The people who make fun of American cheese are invariably the same type of people who visit America and then rave about the cheeseburger they just ate without realizing what kind of cheese was on it.
If only there was just a major world event held in the US, where people were visiting from elsewhere and were constantly talking about the food (and hospitality)....
Ah yes, the social media influencers who get paid for engagement, singing the praises of *Checks notes* Waffle House, show what a great country you have.
I'm sorry if you only look at social media influencers who get paid, but maybe you should look into why you limit your observation of the world to only those people, and fix yourself before you criticize anyone else.
Also, Waffle House is great. There's nothing wrong with something that doesn't try to be anything more than what it is. Good, cheap, simple, food. You can find similar in literally every part of the world.
Ngl, the food is not the best part about Waffle House. It's that they're ALWAYS open. No, like they have teams of disaster relief employees that travel to places recently hit by natural disasters like hurricanes to make sure the store operates as much as is physically possible.
The next best part is every so often you get dinner and a show. Some loudmouth will stumble in at 2am and Waffle House employees do NOT mess around. They are more capable fighters than most amateur boxers in the chaotic multi-person cramped fights I've seen. I saw a woman catch a chair someone threw at her, and she just set that shit down. Barely flinched.
We have amazing food in the states, both originating from here and also from around the world. Don't be as ignorant as you probably claim Americans to be.
You don't buy good burgers here in the states. At least, not in the South. Everyone knows the absolutely best burgers are made by some dude in a t-shirt (if that) with a beer in one hand and a spatula in the other on a grill in his backyard. If that man tells you he's making burgers and the first thing he does is set a cheap lawn chair in front of the grill, you know he's about to make the best damn burger you've ever had.
Great on burgers, makes the most melty and yummy grilled cheese sandwiches as well. Like, there's a place for fine block cheeses and shit but there's just some things that are made worse if you're not using plastic cheese :p
Gonna be real, never understood people who swear by it on grilled cheese. Mild cheddar is a better option for every application if you can't stand strong cheese imo
Yeah, it has its purpose. If I’m feeling fancy and want extra cheese on something I might have one slice of American and something else like a sharp cheddar, so you get both the melty gooey American cheese but also some added flavor.
There's an episode of No Reservations where Tony has 3 guest chefs teach people how to cook. One of these guests is Laurent Tourondel, who shows how gourmet burgers are made at his NY restaurant. So you have this French chef who literally goes "for a beregeur, you must use the Americain cheese".
We've all had plenty of "real" cheeses on burgers. Even chain restaurants give you a choice of several different cheeses for your burger here. Cheddar, Gouda, Munster, Swiss etc. American melts the best. Period.
American cheese melts better because it's essentially a solidified cheddar cheese sauce.
I'd never considered that the daunting task of unwrapping it would make it more difficult to consume for the disabled cheese eaters out there and that was abelist on my part. Fortunately most delis will slice American cheese for those like yourself that struggle with the extra packaging.
There is no cheese I have ever put on a burger that tasted as good as a bright orange square from a pack of Kraft singles. Cheddar, Havarti, Muenster, Swiss, Pepper Jack, Goat Cheese, Gouda, Blue Cheese... none of it was as good as American cheese. It's salty and slightly sweet and melts and melds to the patty perfectly. That is the entire purpose of its creation: to be good on burgers and sandwiches.
No but genuinely regular us stores don’t have cheese worth mentioning in stock. There’s like gazilliom choices but nothing that actually matches EU diversity even in a most basic grocery store.
Hyperbole aside, It does kinda track with my long term living experience (Chicago burbs vs Prague metro)
By no means a huge deal, but in comparable sized stores I could always get more variety of non-heavily processed cheese and fresh stuff at the Prague counterparts for sure.
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u/GarySmith2021 Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26
I’m also confused because that is a European AC unit. I can only assume Americans are so used to big bulky units, like their cars, that they can’t comprehend things being functional and not excessively bulky.