"Mad at the Internet" - a/k/a My Psychotherapy Sessions

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@Null

Sedalia, MIssouri has ~22k people, and isn't part of any metro area.

It is at least an hour and a half away from anything you could reasonably call a "city". There is an Aldi, this is literally the cheese you can get at that specific Aldi: https://shop.aldi.us/store/aldi/collections/3091-cheese/subjects/8197
It is a lot more than you are making it out to be.

And this is what you can get at one of the two Wood's supermarket's in town: https://www.woodssupermarket.com/departments/dairy/d/275645#!/ once again, not a bad haul of "real" cheese.

You can get even more rural and be wihin range of a Wood's store: https://www.woodssupermarket.com/my-store/store-locator and that's just one of several rural Missouri Supermarket chains.

I think you just need to get better at shopping.

 

[Max2019]

have you been to europe? if not, sit down monkey and eat your cheddar.


congrats you found the one kind of soft cheese sold in the us: brie.

Are you Stiltonpilled?

 

[Null]

Aldi

Nice of Germany to donate some culture.

 

[Time 4 Guillotines]

yes, we also have dedicated specialty cheese stores (and bakeries) in my small city, but josh was talking specifically about people that live out in the boonies who can only access a big box grocery store, which is a real problem.

I've lived in those areas and it was still always a choice to go to Walmart. When you're really out in the boonies you still have hunters and deer processing shops, you got butchers, you got faggy little wine shops even. There's options.
Regardless, it's a lazy+bourgeois fat man's concern. It's super out of touch with reality to be upset that you won't have around the clock access to muh brie or whatever the fuck.

 

[The President of Nintendo]

Kroger is the most dumpy ass shit store I've ever been to and when you people talk about how Kroger is great you need to clarify what state because I've been to a couple and to compare their deli section to Walmart is doing Walmart a disservice.

Every Kroger in my area has undergone an extensive gutting/refurbishment within the last decade and even the shitty Krogers have full service delis with fresh baked bread, sliced meats, a huge variety of cheese , fresh meats and seafood. If anything, food COST is what should keep you from coming back to America, not selection.

 

[DavidS877]

It was the dawn of the second age of mankind, ten years after the great cheese war. The KiwiFarms Project was a dream given form. Its goal: to prevent another war by creating a place where Americans and Europeans could work out their cheese related differences peacefully. It's a port of call, home away from home for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers. Americans and Europeans wrapped in two million, five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal, all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last best hope for cheese. This is the story of the last of the KiwiFarms stations. The year is 2034. The name of the place is KiwiFarms 5.

 

[MrReeShopper]

The spergnami continues unabated.

At this rate, we are going to need a cheese forum, or, dare I say it, a Cheese Board?

 

[Time 4 Guillotines]

Every Kroger in my area has undergone an extensive gutting/refurbishment within the last decade and even the shitty Krogers have full service delis with fresh baked bread, sliced meats, a huge variety of cheese , fresh meats and seafood. If anything, food COST is what should keep you from coming back to America, not selection.

I think there's a general market shift towards people wanting better quality and variety. I know some areas of the bumfuck Midwest where people are content with their Mountain Dew and McDonald's but even there you'll find crunchy moms looking to get toxic trash out of their families diets.
Probably a combination of these smaller companies taking note of the success of Whole Foods culture and people generally being better educated about nutrition

 

[Null]

Cheddarheads are going to fucking die

 

[Local Wordmason]

The spergnami continues unabated.

At this rate, we are going to need a cheese forum, or, dare I say it, a Cheese Board?

I'm willing to bet that Null is typing up the mass debates OP as we speak

 

[Castoreum]

The spergnami continues unabated.

At this rate, we are going to need a cheese forum, or, dare I say it, a Cheese Board?

You really put the cute in charcuterie.

 

[MrReeShopper]

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Cheddarheads are going to fucking die

Emmenthal is Swiss... surely it remains a neutral cheese? Ironically it is fairly mild.

Edit: "Ein Reich, ein Volk, ein Käse" - two out of three isn't bad, America.

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

I got some Irish Butter at are supermarket recently. It wasn't good at first, but seems to be an acquired taste as I really like it now.

 

[toothless_banana]

Nice of Germany to donate some culture.

The largest ethnic demographic of whites in Amrika are Germans. Can't even display swastikas without being arrested in Germany, and given all the Quaker, Amish, and Mennonite enclaves, we might be more German than Germany. We even had that post-war brain drain with von Braun and others.

Come back to the true Fatherland, Jersh, and bask in the aggressive whiteness of Arcadia and Suburbia.

 

[VeteranOfTheRetardWars]

Posting a pic of you eating brie with a spoon and washing it down with a rockstar energy is not the own that you think it is.

You wish you were confident enough to eat a block of cheese with a spoon in public niggaaaa.

 

[MrReeShopper]

I'm willing to bet that Null is typing up the mass debates OP as we speak

Holy shit, the madlad actually did it.

 

[Swamp_Donkey]

You wish you were confident to eat a block of cheese with a spoon in public niggaaaa.

The White Man’s Lunch.

 

[Dixieland Buckaroo]

While I'm loving this thread's cheese direction as of late, there's a time factor not being considered, and I'm not talking about aging cheese.

Walmart made a major push into retail grocery from about 2000, ending around 2010 to 2015. They went from only doing grocery commonly in Super Walmarts (remember those? the CSMs had to roller skate!), to doing grocery in about every store they have. This was mirrored by other retailers, including Target. The whole grocery food chain got messed up as a consumers buying trends changed, and a lot chains and mom and pop stores went under, or were bought out.

That said, as part of the consolidation and as an answer to Walmart, many surviving chains have altered their focus, trying for fuller lines of product and more fresh/hot food options. This includes Publix, which Null inexplicably excludes from his Florida analysis. This grocer reaction widely started happening in the 2010s and only really got interrupted by COVID. Retail is still trying to get shit figured out with a lot of people getting staples through Amazon now.

But above said... if I'm remembering my timelines right, Josh's overseas adventures started while the grocery chains had just really started to roll out their response to Walmart. General big box super markets did still kinda suck then (mid 2010s), but were starting to change. They continued to get better, at least until COVID. In parallel, the farm-to-market small industries have also grown since 2010, alongside farmers markets. Just not in the big cities.

Now, given the choice between having only Walmart (or Dollar General or whatever), vs downtown Chicago or San Francisco these days... those are real food deserts. I'd take the Velveeta from Walmart over nothing but maybe some Fruit Rollups and Mountain Dew. Of course, those dead zones happeend because of the inevitable conclusion of the urban lifestyle, accelerated by the summer of "I can't 'breathe". That has decimated retail, including grocery, and even many bodegas are deciding it's not worth it.

European cheese is generally better, but American access to a wide range of cheese has also improved, and there are pockets where supply and variety is at least as good as most spots in Europe. But indeed, that is not true across the States.

 

[VeteranOfTheRetardWars]

Maybe if Burgers learned to cook something more than Hungry Man meals and hamburger helper there would be a larger market for quality ingredients. But goyslop is just so much easier and everything tastes the same when you’re depressed and high, so goyslop it is.

 

[Time 4 Guillotines]

You will always be an American. You have multiple chins, you eat incorrectly with a knife and fork, you cross your legs into a figure 4. You are a burger man twisted by cultural immersion into a crude mockery of Murrica’s perfection.
All the “валидација” you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back babushkas mock you. Your landlord is disgusted and bemused by you, your “friends” laugh at you behind closed doors.
Europeans are utterly repulsed by you. Thousands of years of Cultural Marxism have allowed "slavs" to sniff out Free People with incredible efficiency. Even mutts who “pass” look uncanny and unnatural to a slav. Your cheek bone structure is a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to get a fat Euro girl home with you, she’ll turn tail and bolt the second she gets a whiff of your freedom.
You will never be happy there. You wrench out a fake smile every single morning and tell yourself you're not out of touch with your peers, but deep inside you feel the depression creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight.
Eventually it’ll be too much to bear - you’ll buy a ticket, board a plane, ride it back across the planet, and plunge into the Red, White and Blue abyss. Your parents will find you, relieved but disappointed that they'll no longer have an ocean to separate them from their disappointment. They’ll greet you outside the airport terminal with a sign marked by your name, and every passerby for the rest of eternity will know an American has returned home. Your ill formed opinions will decay and go back to the dust, and all that will remain of their legacy is a post history that is unmistakably cringe.
This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back from cheddar.