After traveling to Europe I am really puzzled by Canada, we are a nation built from European immigrants but our bread and cheese is shite compared to anything you get from say The Netherlands or Germany. What the fuck went wrong?
At least Alberta has great Ukrainian and Greek food.
The EU might not have a dairy cartel, but they buy the milk and butter which are overproduced with taxpayer money to keep the price stable. And they spend billions every year for it.
And they have way more regulations for dairy farmers to keep up the quality.
And he's only able to do it because the EU pays him $$. Would you like the Canadian government to throw billions of $$ every year at dairy farmers? Because that's the alternative to supply management. The US does it and the EU does it.
As a person from euro it is disappointing how a G7 country can get such a simple to make product so spectacularly wrong and expensive. I’ve largely given up buying cheese in Canada. It’s just not affordable. $16 for barely a kilo of macro label plastic crap from Kraft? ‘Sale’ price cheese that’s the same ‘just about barely reasonable price’ as it was 4 years ago?
$4.99 for a lb of flavourless butter? Excuse me? I was wanting to buy a block of cheese or butter shopkeep, not phuqqing platinum.
Euro butter is incredible, French President butter is sublime. Good luck finding it here though, butter has an import ‘fine’ of 298% (lets not be precious, a tariff at 300% is just a cute way of keeping out imports) .
IIRC cheese is similar, there’s also stiff penalties on eggs, chicken.
You can play an eye opening game next time you’re at Safeway or loblaws. Take a look at the import cheese museum area, and look at the shelf labels priced per 100g. The record I’ve seen is $85 a Kg, some French import blue cheese. The pack dimensions you coulda measured in Plahnk lengths.
It’s either that or one is shelling out a mortgage payment for a morsel with a higher mass than a teaspoon of neutrinos.
As a person from euro it is disappointing how a G7 country can get such a simple to make product so spectacularly wrong and expensive. I’ve largely given up buying cheese in Canada. It’s just not affordable. $16 for barely a kilo of macro label plastic crap from Kraft? ‘Sale’ price cheese that’s the same ‘just about barely reasonable price’ as it was 4 years ago?
$4.99 for a lb of flavourless butter? Excuse me? I wanting to buy a block of cheese shopkeep, not phuqqing platinum.
Euro butter is incredible, French President butter is sublime. Good luck finding it here though, butter has an import ‘fine’ of 298% (lets not be precious, a tariff at 300% is just a cute way of keeping out imports) .
IIRC cheese is similar, there’s also stiff penalties on eggs, chicken.
You can play an eye opening game next time you’re at Safeway or loblaws. Take a look at the import cheese museum area, and look at the shelf labels priced per 100g. The record I’ve seen is $85 a Kg, some French import blue cheese. The pack dimensions you coulda measured in Plahnk lengths.
It’s either that or one is shelling out a mortgage payment for a morsel with a higher mass than a teaspoon of neutrinos.
After traveling to Europe I am really puzzled by Canada, we are a nation built from European immigrants but our bread and cheese is shite compared to anything you get from say The Netherlands or Germany. What the fuck went wrong?
At least Alberta has great Ukrainian and Greek food.
The EU might not have a dairy cartel, but they buy the milk and butter which are overproduced with taxpayer money to keep the price stable. And they spend billions every year for it.
And they have way more regulations for dairy farmers to keep up the quality.
And he's only able to do it because the EU pays him $$. Would you like the Canadian government to throw billions of $$ every year at dairy farmers? Because that's the alternative to supply management. The US does it and the EU does it.
As a person from euro it is disappointing how a G7 country can get such a simple to make product so spectacularly wrong and expensive. I’ve largely given up buying cheese in Canada. It’s just not affordable. $16 for barely a kilo of macro label plastic crap from Kraft? ‘Sale’ price cheese that’s the same ‘just about barely reasonable price’ as it was 4 years ago?
$4.99 for a lb of flavourless butter? Excuse me? I was wanting to buy a block of cheese or butter shopkeep, not phuqqing platinum.
Euro butter is incredible, French President butter is sublime. Good luck finding it here though, butter has an import ‘fine’ of 298% (lets not be precious, a tariff at 300% is just a cute way of keeping out imports) .
IIRC cheese is similar, there’s also stiff penalties on eggs, chicken.
You can play an eye opening game next time you’re at Safeway or loblaws. Take a look at the import cheese museum area, and look at the shelf labels priced per 100g. The record I’ve seen is $85 a Kg, some French import blue cheese. The pack dimensions you coulda measured in Plahnk lengths.
It’s either that or one is shelling out a mortgage payment for a morsel with a higher mass than a teaspoon of neutrinos.
As a person from euro it is disappointing how a G7 country can get such a simple to make product so spectacularly wrong and expensive. I’ve largely given up buying cheese in Canada. It’s just not affordable. $16 for barely a kilo of macro label plastic crap from Kraft? ‘Sale’ price cheese that’s the same ‘just about barely reasonable price’ as it was 4 years ago?
$4.99 for a lb of flavourless butter? Excuse me? I wanting to buy a block of cheese shopkeep, not phuqqing platinum.
Euro butter is incredible, French President butter is sublime. Good luck finding it here though, butter has an import ‘fine’ of 298% (lets not be precious, a tariff at 300% is just a cute way of keeping out imports) .
IIRC cheese is similar, there’s also stiff penalties on eggs, chicken.
You can play an eye opening game next time you’re at Safeway or loblaws. Take a look at the import cheese museum area, and look at the shelf labels priced per 100g. The record I’ve seen is $85 a Kg, some French import blue cheese. The pack dimensions you coulda measured in Plahnk lengths.
It’s either that or one is shelling out a mortgage payment for a morsel with a higher mass than a teaspoon of neutrinos.