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

[Hentai-Semitism]

The weekly round of cheese talk reminded me of this Tony freak out over cheese.
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What's a provo loan?

 

[FlipTopBox]

If it weren't for those bins there are a lot of specialty cheeses like aged goat that we would just never fully sell.

Just like when I was working at the supermarket there were certain products that just would not sell unless they were on sale or on clearance. Hell, some stuff didn't sell no matter how much we discounted it for.

There's such a wide world of cheeses available but people prefer the chemical slop that tastes like actual plastic.

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.
You can lead an American to good cheese but you can't make him not just buy pre-sliced processed cheddar.

we have less than four people, me included.

Again, relatable. My department was always being run on a skeleton crew. Which wasn't usually that bad until there was a big sale or holiday season rolled around. When it got bad it got BAD. Especially when a co-worker suddenly quits without notice and another calls in sick so you have to do three people's work while getting constantly accosted by retarded boomers who can't read a fucking sign.

But anyway, enough of the retail work venting. I've been wanting to try more different kinds of cheese for a while now but price is a barrier for me. Some of the non-slop cheeses are pricey and I don't like to splurge on something I may not even like. Plus I know I'm the only one in the family who'd eat it, so it can be hard to justify.

 

[John Andrews Stan]

please tell me I'm still wrong

You’re wrong. Murray’s Cheese was purchased in 2017 by the Kroger Co., who has spent those years putting the specialty cheese stores-within-the-store inside more than 1200 supermarkets across America. Relatively few are in big cities. Every one of those stores has its own staff of cheesemongers and sells around 200 specialty cheeses as well as charcuterie, olives, etc.

 

[Null]

Cool story, but I've been to kroger's in a few states, and I have not seen anything that beats Walmarts, nothing that beats even a shitty Whole Foods. The nicest I've seen is Whole Foods in DC but the Whole Foods in other states (huge, metropolitan cities) does not compare.

I don't think any of the people repeating "Kroger's, Whole Foods" at me over, and over, and over again have lived in Europe.

 

[Jotch]

Whole Foods in DC

DC has the highest homosexual concentration of the entire country.

 

[John Andrews Stan]

I don't think any of the people repeating "Kroger's, Whole Foods" at me over, and over, and over again have lived in Europe.

I have. If you can’t find the cheese you want even though it’s in literally over 1200 stores across America, I don’t think America is the problem.

 

[Null]

I have. If you can’t find the cheese you want even though it’s in literally over 1200 stores across America, I don’t think America is the problem.

dunno what your experience was but clearly we are not on the same page, cheers.

 

[Jotch]

The system is what the system does. Therefore the system is "Good cheese is not for bed bound fatty".

 

[Gatcha Gonna Getcha]

I don't think any of the people repeating "Kroger's, Whole Foods" at me over, and over, and over again have lived in Europe.

How easy is it to come across those more unique regional blends that you brought up before in Europe? Like with the guy from Norway. Is it common to see people like that anywhere or do you only see them more in in cities to get their name out more?
On the lack of cheese in the US: I agree with what others have said in that I think most people in general just don't want different cheeses than the crap they've grown up with. I'm personally not a big fan of cheese but I've grown to like it more the older I get.

 

[Null]

How easy is it to come across those more unique regional blends that you brought up before in Europe?

you can find them in gas stations alongside fresh baked bread. you can't even get fresh baked bread in bakeries in the us. they just make fucking cake.

us food culture is so depressing and i fucking despise the fags coping that it's the same. it's not the same. groceries are twice as expensive in the us, the resturaunts suck, there's almost no real good local restaurants, and the average grocery store has no good cheese.

i also truly, truly despise - more than i could possibly articulate in words - being told that I'm just not looking hard enough. i've spent a decade outside of the us. i know what it's like out there. i spent the first 20 years of my life in the us. i know what it's like in here.

 

[Gatcha Gonna Getcha]

you can find them in gas stations alongside fresh baked bread. you can't even get fresh baked bread in bakeries in the us. they just make fucking cake.

I've heard how shit bread is compared to bread in Europe from travel channels. You really have to find a dedicated bakery that specifically does bread to get anything decent if you don't want wonderbread crap. I think the only place I've heard that was worse is Japan. Hopefully there's a cheese revolution eventually.

 

[Castoreum]

I can't imagine using your own spirit as a kind of lightning rod for...extranormal forces is especially safe; in popular media, doesn't chaos magick lead to things like howling at the moon and other general insanity?

I don't know about popular media depiction of chaos magic. Howling at the moon sounds pretty benign considering.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

How hard is it to find real bread in the US? All I see in the media is stuff like Wonder Bread, which is probably the bread equivalent of American cheese.

 

[mrfresh]

Hopefully there's a cheese revolution eventually.

 

[Null]

How hard is it to find real bread in the US? All I see in the media is stuff like Wonder Bread, which is probably the bread equivalent of American cheese.

Depending on where you live it can be literally impossible to find fresh baked bread leavened by yeast. When I first moved back I wanted live yeast. I called up Walmart, a local pizzeria, and a local bakery and asked if they had live yeast. Walmart only had dried yeast and their bakery received its bread as frozen dough already leavened. The pizzeria received its dough the same way. The bakery only made sweets and had zero products that required yeast. The nearest whole foods was 90 minutes away.

 

[he who has thus come/gone]

i also truly, truly despise - more than i could possibly articulate in words - being told that I'm just not looking hard enough

Just make your own, like a true American frontiersman. If you can't find and buy it, steal it from a local Indian tribe.

 

[GoharMaria]

Does Josh speed up the audio on the MATI mp3's?

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

Depending on where you live it can be literally impossible to find fresh baked bread leavened by yeast. When I first moved back I wanted live yeast. I called up Walmart, a local pizzeria, and a local bakery and asked if they had live yeast. Walmart only had dried yeast and their bakery received its bread as frozen dough already leavened. The pizzeria received its dough the same way. The bakery only made sweets and had zero products that required yeast. The nearest whole foods was 90 minutes away.

It's the same situation as with cheese? I see. I was listening to old MATI episodes and I remember your rant about grated pseudo-cheddar. So unless you live in a decently sized city, you're shit out of luck.

Did you consider getting a bread machine? Those aren't too expensive and you can make your own bread in about 3 hours. You only need packaged bread mix and some water and the machine does everything for you. I've been using one for a few weeks and I'm satisfied. Just make sure if the mix you're using requires extra yeast because not all of them come pre-mixed with it.

 

[Wilson The Ball]

So unless you live in a decently sized city, you're shit out of luck.

Not necessarily. The drive from backwoods to city is about 20 minutes (here), but you can find some decent imported cheeses. Got some pecorino romano for a tasty carbonara once from a basic ass grocery store. It is more expensive however, like a wedge is more than a whole pack of the kraft singles.

A big issue is finding more "exotic" meats like guanciale. Ground beef, shit steaks, and radioactive chicken abound but unless you want to go to a butcher for half decent venison or anything else. Don't bother with fish, you will not find good fish unless you're at a coastal city.

 

[McMitch]

i spent the first 20 years of my life in the us. i know what it's like in here.

You lived in coastal cities while still going to Walmart. Then you’re surprised that, when you ape the European talking point that Walmart is the only option, people in Middle America insist you’re wrong. 1) Your perspective is indeed limited, and it’s insulting when you repeat people whose perspective is even further removed from the situation, 2) all this is is impotent bitching at people who have neither caused nor can solve, your perceived problem, who have shown you your issue is not as total as you want to believe.