People mistakenly think American cheese isn't real cheese because they think all American cheese is like Kraft slices. Regular American cheese is just basically a type of mild cheddar and Colby that are blended with an emulsifier so that it melts easier. This is a joke about French people believing it
Don't ever underestimate a Europeans need to think they are superior when it comes to food. They have a boner for that kind of thing. Apparently the only food you can get in the US is corn syrup and McDonalds.
It is objectively false that you can't get 'real' bread or cheese or XYZ food in America - America is huge and diverse and has lots of quality things if you know where to look. There's plenty of high quality foods in America.
On average, things like bread and cheese tend to much lower quality for what everyday people most commonly eat/buy than in Europe.
Bread is a great example. While there are amazing bakeries in American and you can definitely find some of the best bread in the world if you know where to look, most bread that most Americans eat everyday is just sugary garbage compared to the bread that most Europeans eat everyday.
Based off their profile picture, they likely couldn’t enter most buildings without bouncing that five head off of every door frame, so their options were limited.
Ah, yes. Your single experience defines the entire American bread industry. The bakery near me sells like 5 different types of rye at any time. Freshly baked light rye, dark rye, Jewish rye, Russian rye, vollkornbrot, marbled rye, and pumpernickel are all examples of what i can near me. Not to mention all the sourdoughs and whatever else.
I am sure every European home has bread made from the finest bakers in the land, wine made from the finest grapes in the world, and pasta made fresh that morning by nana,
In France and in a lot of Europe there is legislations about what constitutes protected food products such as bread legally speaking. There is some cheese you will never find in a "fromagerie" or breads in a "boulangerie" for those exact reasons (They are protected from industrial practices, additive, sugars etc, will make it fall out of those protections). And are literally not labeled as bread or cheese in a significant way.
So it's not that good products don't exist in USA, there definitely is and I've tried a few myself both there and in Canada where I live. It's more that you need to get a bit more out of your way (especially outside of big cities) to get access to better artisanal products. By comparison they are readily available in dedicated small shops absolutely everywhere in a lot of Europe to far greater numbers, creating a much lower consumption of the industrial variants, often because they can compete economically too.
Basically the difference is really that the protection and omnipresence of the traditional products creates less dependence on industrial food like those 'cardboard-tasting pre-sliced prepackaged white "bread"'.
We have the same type of protections for books in France for instance so big libraries like amazon can't undercut smaller libraries with cheaper book prices. Books are the same price wherever you get them from by law.
So I wouldn't blame Europeans that fall under the impression that Americans "only eat sliced white breads" and toasts because it is truly significantly much more available and ubiquitous than in Europe and will honestly be seen in most homes in the USA when just grabbing a baguette from a boulangerie in France is routine for a huge majority in France.
Different laws and cultures creates different habits.
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u/Remarkable_Rough_649 16h ago edited 16h ago
People mistakenly think American cheese isn't real cheese because they think all American cheese is like Kraft slices. Regular American cheese is just basically a type of mild cheddar and Colby that are blended with an emulsifier so that it melts easier. This is a joke about French people believing it