Debate user 'Null' if America has Cheese, Meat, and Bread.

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This has probably been said already but, even small towns have bakeries and delis in their supermarkets. You'll likely be going to The South when you come back, just go to Publix. Ingles, Winn Dixie and Harvey's are the same way. Even small towns these days have a Panera Bread. BUT, in the South at least, there will be small town bakers, there will be delis that sell cheese (maybe not to the same hundreds of varieties in Europe tho) there will be creameries that you can go to that aren't really out of the way and there will even be vintners to get wine. Any small town with a butcher will have these things within reasonable and even comfortable driving distance. If the town is REALLY small though, and it doesn't have a district with industrial architecture that looks steretypically small-towney, you'll just have to go to the farms themselves. Even in Europe, if there's no bourge, there's no boulangerie. Can't blame America for that, Ooperator. Also, the delis in the super markets have sausage and cheese coolers in the middle aisles of the deli/bakery area. Many are imported. More creameries are learning to make the cheeses, though.
 
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This has probably been said already but, even small towns have bakeries and delis in their supermarkets. You'll likely be going to The South when you come back, just go to Publix. Ingles, Winn Dixie and Harvey's are the same way. Even small towns these days have a Panera Bread. BUT, in the South at least, there will be small town bakers, there will be delis that sell cheese (maybe not to the same hundreds of varieties in Europe tho) there will be creameries that you can go to that aren't really out of the way and there will even be vintners to get wine. Any small town with a butcher will have these things within reasonable and even comfortable driving distance. If the town is REALLY small though, and it doesn't have a district with industrial architecture that looks steretypically small-towney, you'll just have to go to the farms themselves. Even in Europe, if there's no bourge, there's no boulangerie. Can't blame America for that, Ooperator. Also, the delis in the super markets have sausage and cheese coolers in the middle aisles of the deli/bakery area. Many are imported. More creameries are learning to make the cheeses, though.
 
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Getting Sentimental said:
I make it through the day by being rich enough to afford it due to making 20% more money than the average europeon working an equivalent job, probably double so if they live in a war torn slavic country populated by gypsies and united states expats.
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lucky for you, whereas for most americans inflation has outpaced pay raises every year for decades.
 
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Null said:
I remember the Whole Foods in Florida had one of the big tubs of cheese with little wheels cut to size and wrapped in cellophane tape but my nigga did not see any such thing
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The only whole foods I ever walked inside still had a cheese cart, only it was a old 1960’s farm truck with cheeses in the bed of it.
 
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Supermarkets here suck. I don't think anybody here will argue that point.

Which is why I've always suggested to people to get to learn where you can get the good stuff.

Find a good bakery that makes their own bread and it's worth a bit of a trip. Find a good butcher that takes pride in his meats and make friends with him. They will always direct you to the good stuff and will even get a little more generous with their stuff. Buying him a bottle of good scotch every Christmas doesn't hurt. Same with a cheesemonger. Yes you have to go find them and try them out but you can't rely on the supermarkets to stock what you want.

And on the plus side, the local Costco is finally stocking Stilton again. It only shows up about this time and by mid-January it's gone. But I'll be damned if I don't buy about 4-5 pounds of it between now and mid-January. Yes it's only Long Clawson's and I'd love to get my hands on some of Colston Basset but unless I want to pay some ridiculous price for it I'll settle for the Long Clawson's.
 
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Here are the prices in my country


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The Blue Morpho said:
Capser WY is truly remote for a town in the USA. I imagine most goods cost more there because its out of the way from every major shipping route and surrounded by mostly unproductive hinterlands.

I would expect most goods to cost more there just like I'd expect to pay a lot more for most things in Alaska.

Also keep in mind how much wealthier even the poorest American is compared to a European and how much less they have to pay in taxes.
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For reference, from census.gov 2021 statistics
Household income: $61,657 (national avg $76,330)
Per capita income: $37,075
Below poverty line: 10.9% (~14% national avg)
White alone, percent 92.9%
 
CHARizard said:
Have to agree with Null here on this. Those supermarket bakeries are all using premade doughs. Its how they post the nutrition facts on the packaging.


Even whole foods does this.
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but the argument isnt about who has the best tasting bread and cheese, its about being able to get more than kraft singles and wonderbread.
 
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Null said:
bro heating up the same soft crust white clone bread is not a bakery.
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They make the dough, put it in the oven and then they package it and put it in the baskets. You can go to them and ask for a loaf or whatever to be freshly made. Even in Wal Mart. Also, you can get real cheese cut for you by the pound. Most of it will likely be Boar's Head but you will likely have other places for other options. There will be more than cheddar, too.
 
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Null said:
I've never seen these in the US (but things are different now, I don't remember seeing any troons in the US but apparently half the country is a tranny now)
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Yet the food situation is the same? You speak with utmost authority on that. What makes this different? This just lends further credence to the “Null ate mostly goyslop as a kid and only stopped upon moving out of the US” theory.

Also, you lived in Florida which I feel obligated to remind everyone is so far removed from normal, sane life in America that it shouldn’t even count as experience with the US in the first place.
 
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