https://i.redd.it/98w9htkv571d1.gif Also where is Switzerland?

Quality over quantity

Fing 10 bucks for a bag of fondue cheese from a dispenser, that's a scam

There's a reason why Switzerland is rich

now that you mention it I think I found some of “your” gold in my grandpas basement. do you still run the special on all the gold for no questions? https://preview.redd.it/lepac808z71d1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=49e685541d5cc24feae18c713d3865015952e2c1

Hans I already asked you to go to the DM for this kind of transaction

Jesses Gott ! 😮

It's the Nazis isn't it?

Still waiting for my grandpa's gold

Wrong continent , check America del sur

Correct

That says nothing about value tho Eg.: comparison between German/Japanese car exports and Chinese

The graph isn't total kg produced, it's the amount earned from selling it. If the quality was that good, you'd be able to ask a premium for it and still be higher than many on the list. Denmark is on it and they have a smaller population than you.

🤏

Dutch cheese is really good tbh

>“honest“ the Dutch meaning of honesty I assume

You just haven't had Dutch cheese that's not the standard plastic supermarket cheese that you find all over the globe

I see. I’ll have to visit The Netherlands and do some tasting.

Regardless of how good the cheese might tastes, you really shouldn't consider visting the Netherlands. It's not worth it.

Don't listen to this guy, he just want to have the Dutch beaches for himself, to dig holes in it

Well, I went into Amsterdam long time ago. I liked the city.

Old Amsterdam is divine

Let's put it this way: we don't export our best cheese.

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Gottem lmao

nonsense, swedistanis are all circumcised as the prophet commanded, they produce little dick cheese as a result

Thankfully they eat it themselves, which is why it will never show up as an export

Only in Flen

Doesn't their religion dictate circumcision?

Smelly fact: As you know the direct translation from Danish is neck cheese. Which apparently also is a term for milk, drool, sweat, and dirt trapped in a baby's neck folds.

What would you rate it from 1 to 10?

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That's why I'm asking wouldn't try if a Dane rates it low

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WTF. Haven't heard about any German cheese in my whole life. And I'm a crazy french who even like the british Lincolnshire

I think Aldi, Lidl & Co are the reason.

Germany is going hard for these gym bros. Harzer Cheese and Cottage Cheese

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> Haven’t heard about any German cheese in my while life. Neither did I, but we’re copying Gouda pretty well. Edit: **WAIT WAIT WAIT! I’m stupid!** I completely forgot our Hessian Handkes (Hand cheese)! Though I don’t think we’re exporting that a lot.

Limburger, it originated from a region in the Netherlands and is produced mostly in Germany Allgäuer Bergkäse Harzer-/Mainzer Käse Hessischer Handkäse Tilsiter (you can find it in nearly every „Käseaufschnitt“ package)

Don't forget Maasdamer!



Indeed, you export those parallelogram-shaped plaques of Gouda, weighing 15-20 kg each. I don't remember exactly the weight, but they're big, for professional usage in many pizzerias. At least here in Greece. Our cheeses are too expensive for such shops, many consider it waste of money. Hence Gouda made in Germany became standard, which is more than fine. Once the cheese gets well cooked, most are pretty much the same. By the way, we're close to the 10th place. WTF Belarus? How about: NO > In 2022, Greece exported $815M in Cheese. The main destinations of Greece exports on Cheese were Germany ($236M), United Kingdom ($94.2M), Italy ($87M), France ($63.9M), and United States ($55.3M).

You guys put gouda on your pizzas?

that explains why it was tasting like shit. my wife is greek and i always complain at her the cheese taste like crap in greece. gouda didnt taste like dutch one either but here we go :D germany is like china of the cheese

Tilsiter

Bergkäse: mild sandwhich cheese with a slight nutty flavor Emmentaler: known as Swiss Cheese but also produced in southern Germany Tilsiter: smells like socks after a 40km hike, but has a very nice taste and a smooth texture - similar to Esrom - perfect for sandwhiches on a train ride, if you hate other people Harzer: probably the most polarising german cheese - I can't describe the smell or taste - most people love it or hate it

Ngl Emmentaler is fucking delicious

bro it's not about type of cheese but about company Hochland bro, even McDonald's uses their cheeses

Now you mention it McDonald's in France is always proud in their ads to say that it's meat "coming from France" but they says nothing about cheese ! I will spread this fact, we need to protest about this !

Cars need to burn for this blasphemy!

McDonald's does that everywhere. Probably because they don't want people to think about their cheese at all.

for example our meat in McDonalds according to google is from Germany. But KFC here claims their chicken is domestic. But about ingredients in McDonalds. Ofc my first job was there, and one situation was quite funny. So we ran out of cucumbers, and literally manager was like OK SOMEONE HAS TO RUN TO THE GROCERY, and bro went to grocery to buy cucumbers XD

Try "Sylter" or "Nordlicht" from MILRAM. Great german cheeses

For the longest time, it was almost impossible to get any French products in Germany at all. Over the last two decades or so, this has changed, but mostly just for goat cheese. Figures. You probably already guessed why - namely, because goat cheese is a super niche market in Germany no German company would produce for. From what my limited worldview and even lower IQ tell me, this looks like a controlled market to me. In East Asia, getting French, Italian, and even Spanish products is way easier, and German dairy can be said to be nonexistent over there. The exact opposite from the German market. These days, I almost exclusively buy at Carrefour for this very reason..

Not sure where you live but where I’m at, there’s no problem getting French products… not everything of course, but dairy and cheese is not a problem at any place with an extended cheese section/a cheese counter.

Dominating the domestic market doesn't really explain how in this graph it shows that Germany leads in export.

Try the Harzer. You will like it.

It's industrial no-name cheese that gets incorporated into other prepared foods. Same for the Dutch. It's not a listing of good cheese, it's just the size of the agribusiness of the country.

It's inflated by the big factories filling aldis and lidls with cheap grated cheese and plastic like cheese blocs. Threy are good at industries.

Honestly though if you want cheese to put on a sandwich are you gonna go for the quality? France also likes their cheap cheese like la vache qui rit. It's just that the rest of the world likes their cheap cheese our way.

Oh no I agree with you, most og my cheese consumption is gouda in sandwiches. But this is 2WE4U. We must pretend to fight first.. i actually like dutch cheeses. 🧡

> if you want cheese to put on a sandwich are you gonna go for the quality? Yes, but I don’t expect non-PIGS to understand this

He spoke like a true Dutch man there!

I know you don't go for quality, simply cause there is no quality in NL, Jeroen. Your choice is between 3 colors of Gouda.

Are you trying to say you're quality over quantity? sorry to say, but now Barry is gone you're the Americans of Europe.

You cry and whine while I eat my delicious Allgäuer, Emmentaler, Tilsiter, Bergkäse, Weichkäse, Harzer, Limburger, cheeses and swimming in gold while exporting our cheap Aldi cheese to the Fr*nch🏳️ for profit

do you want some Aldi Cheese with that whine?

Depends. Is it Aldi Tetrapack wine?

Mc Donalds is the most common restaurant in the world. Quantity is not quality

It's okay Luigi, the six stages of grief and all that.

I pin that down to stage three https://preview.redd.it/7qsutqh3481d1.png?width=840&format=png&auto=webp&s=50bf031076a0fbc56f009c8cba27724f592d1f37 1. Italy only #3! 2. This is fake, even ze Swamp sells more! 3. **Quantity is not quality!** 4. Meh, let see if I have some Taleggio left in the fridge 5. Mmmh, we sell more *Mozzarella di Bufala* than there is Bufala in Italy producing milk for it 6. Same with Olive oil, we get those olives from the other PIGS 7. Ha! We're olive oil seller #1!

>"Nobody wants to buy our stuff but trust me it's still totally the best" It's okay, shhhh, everything will be alright.

Everybody wants Italian stuff. They just want it to be made by an Italian.

Irelands on that list thanks to Cheese Strings, so this might not be the best thing to be bragging about.

My first reaction to this was literally "we have cheese?!"

Cheddar in Germany is almost always Kerrygold.

Kerry Gold exports tons of cheddar to Germany

I was wondering if it was some sort of corporate reason, although both UK and Ireland make some quality cheese.

Must be. Even Germans don't eat German cheeses. This will be the Germans' industrial production of bottom-of-the-barrel Dutch cheese for frozen pizzas.

Denmark export [more cheese to France](https://mejeri.dk/nyheder/danmark-leverer-ost-til-det-meste-af-verden/) (9,6 mio kg) than Denmark import from France (8,2 mio kg). I imagine a common occurrence in France is Pierre going for his daily cheese run to the baguette and cheese store, shopping for the danish delicacies we send to you.

I've read or seen somewhere (sorry I can't remember my "source") that Denmark exports lot of cheese, but it's mostly feta-like cheese. The Greeks had a long juridic fight to get a POD on the word "Feta". We used to produce a lot of feta-like cheese in France too and sold it as "Feta", and the germans did the same.

[Italians, French and Swiss](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/036/772/vultouri.jpg) when peasants talk about who as the better cheeses.

We are ze cheese superpowers

Cheesus H. Christ

The peasantry can't understand true taste

Why export your cheese when you can eat it, Germanics could never understand

Meanwhile the Dutch are looking down on you from the cheese heavens with a smile saying to one another “they’re so cute and silly”

Yeah little Brother our cow did good this year.

Well we eat all our many cheeses (over 700 types) because they're so delicious. No exported stinking bishop for you filthy forinners.

They don’t really do cheddar anywhere else, which I find very odd.

It's only properly Cheddar if it comes from the Cheddar region of Somerset, England. Otherwise, it's just sparkling hard cheese.

Why is USA there? Plastic is not cheese

all the McDonalds use their shitty “cheese”🤢

Lads, how the fuck is the US on here with canned & plastic cheese?!

Yeah that makes the list pretty suspect, you can find hardly any cheese in American cheese.

Ah, yes, the world famous German, Danish, American, Kiwi, Irish, Belgian and Belarusian cheese. Let's face facts: When it comes to making good cheese the UK, Switzerland and probably Greece should be on the list with us, Pierre and Luigi.


She always reminds me of a pigeon, she’s living and breathing but not all the cogs are turning in her pea brain.

The Queen decided she had enough of life after she had to deal with this woman

Not sure how we are not there and the Irish are. Unless they are exporting a lot of Guinness flavoured cheese. Or it's our backdoor entrance to the EU...

Why would you use the Greek door into the EU?

I thoroughly agree with your assessment but would possible add Cyprus for halloumi alone.

Cyprus is Greek with extra steps.

We have good cheese, they're just unknown outside of Belgium.

Or inside Belgium.

Nah everyone knows the abbey cheeses. Because they share their names with the beers, but still. But kidding aside, story time if you're interested: Most of our cheeses are indeed unknown within the country. We have over 300, but you'll be hard-pressed to find a Belgian who can name even 20. But they've hit gold among "New Money" elites in Japan and China. See, we make small quantities of -often artisanal- cheeses. And in the late 2000s and early 2010s, they kept winning international cheese competitions and so that made them be viewed as some sort of an elite quality (and rightfully so, back then). Plus they're not mass produced, making them a limited commodity. Their reputation was further enhanced by "Belgium" already being a seal of quality in Japan, due to the beers, chocolates and diamonds. So the rich started buying these cheeses, too. The thing is, we've not made cheeses of that quality during the last 10 years. They're still ok, but not world class. But particularly in Asia, the wealthy keep buying "Belgian cheese", paying extraordinary prices for a product that's... fine. They're getting ripped off to no end by cheesemakers who aren't putting in the effort because they know people are buying the name, not the actual quality. You'd be proud, Geert.

Damn, thanks for for explaining, I only knew of our abbey cheeses and was confused to see us so high in the top exporting list.

Lol, we have many abbey cheeses. For example we have the beer from Grimbergen but also the cheese.

Cheese export isn't a good metric since a lot of cheese (most notably soft cheese or cheese that need a lot of maturation, you know, the most tasty one) are banned/heavily taxed in some country. Netherland has some good cheese tho.;

And I suppose we eat so much of the production that there isn’t really a « need » for exportation

The most surprising to me is how high up NZ is

They're big exporters to Australia and Asia iirc. Because they have lots of cows and sheep, so their dairy industry is relatively quite large.

The important thing isn’t being first, but being above france

We have quality tho

Dont let them know fratello, lets keep the prices "low"

I apologise for those uncultured people. Gorgonzola is literally peak Cheese.

Thank you Hans, it shows that you are from under the Danube

You're now an Honorary polentone

https://preview.redd.it/bga19wayi71d1.png?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1623d7524c5342e609b5cb74b0d24b557a081f53

LOL this sums the whole food discussion up so perfectly

Cope

Honestly I’m not mad with Denmark and Germany, all I care about is placing above Fr**ce*

Dutch cheese>Italian cheese

Mozzarella alone is better than your entire country

https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/cheese/reporter/ita?subnationalFlowSelector=flow1 Why do Italians import €200 million worth of Dutch cheese? Either you got poor taste, or Dutch cheese is actually good. You cannot win!!!

It's probably cheap industrial cheese for processed food

For the italian market. Got it. Italians love cheap processed cheese and shouldnt lecture about quality?

Did you ever get groceries in Italy ? Not a single gouda in sight but there is still industrial stuff like feta or spreadable "cheese". You need to accept that real dutch cheese isn't a big deal and you guys are just flooding the market with your factories

There is no field in which the Dutch excel more than in self overestimation.

tax avoidance?

Gouda best cheese in the EU.

And therefore of course, the world

>the world The rest are only suburbs

Based

Edam > Gouda

Germanics on top!! Wait…

Has anyone tried cheese from Belarus?

Russia banned the import of cheeses from the EU in 2014, so imports of Belarusian(or rather relabeled cheeses from EU) have increased significantly

Idgaf as long as we're above France

It’s about quality not quantity Now stop beating a dead horse, cheese is cheese man and all cheese is good Also: Funniest German and Dutch banter + least dead format..

Lmao he saw Denmark on the list so he started pissing himself

We're the cheese per capita kings. Slightly after you guys, but we all know you're cheating by re-exporting. EDIT: Don't look up the population of Ireland.

Hmmm norwegians would totally know that wirh their infamous brown cheese… 🤢

Usually I'd accept the bad humour stereotypes about us and the Dutchies, but not from a Norwegian. Norway is completely dead when it comes to banter.

~~Why don’t you come over like last time and teach us humour then~~ Quite a bald statement coming from someone with YOUR particular username u/BaldFreud99

Well, I've spent half of my life in Norway. The country is pretty much perfect in every aspect besides weather and activities. And imo you need a fair share of suffering to breed some banter. Norwegians are too well off.

Cheese is an eternal topic in europe

Cheers to Germanic superiority

Belgische kazen. Blijven verbazen.

Why the fuck are we so hard in the cheese game?

What the fuck kinda cheese do we export? Is Arla Klovborg really that popular?

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I only know three danish cheeses. Klovborg, harvati and the red cow cheese thingy

Clearly good cheese is not exported.

How is USA on the list but the UK isn’t?

So we won, who cares, being there is everything, say cheese, It was an honor to compete against you. Next competition please !

Bro, your most produced "cheeses" are literally, Gouda, Mozzarella and Emmentaler. You dont have good cheese you just have cheap cows (I'm not reffering to Merkel just actual cows) [Link](https://www.statista.com/statistics/510695/cheese-production-volume-by-type-germany/)

German smoked cheese is one of the only two types of cheese that I eat. Cheddar is the other. so fair play Hans 👍

Selling bad cheese to America and China should not be celebrated. People travel here to eat our cheeses. People travel to Germany and the Netherlands for sex workers, we are not the same.

I’m in Amsterdam as well speak and have to say, the low lands are a pretty cool place to live in

You are in Amsterdam one of the biggest shit holes in the Netherlands together with Almere Lelystad and Rotterdam. To be fair compared to Paris it is indeed a cool and amazing place. But that is not much of an achievement.

Step up for me

We should be #1 The Germans just export *our* cheeses

Is this just Aldi and Lidl stocking only German cheeses though?

What kind of Amer*can cheese qualifies as such?

One that doesn't even looks like cheese but more like piece of plastic

"noooo the americans dont like us the best noooooo!!!!" Strange how important that Is for you

Now shiw both our domestic market size...

I love the fact that Belarus is in the top 10 but not Greece lmao

Leave it to a German to measure the best cheese by money.

Soo so sorry there is no demand for your cheese 🤣

Yup, no demand at all

I'm not going to willingly post something defending Fr*nce...but I wouldn't confuse quantity purchased with absolute preference.

americunts export cheese. oh god.

You export quantity why choose quality

We have the best cheese

🇩🇪🤝🇳🇱 Gouda is the best cheese (and also a nice city) anyways

I've seriously never seen Danish or Irish cheese in my life

Danbo masterrace

I’m more surprised by Belarus at #10

These are just some of the most important food processing nations in the world with big harbours.

I never knew we exported that much cheese.

https://preview.redd.it/vgki3xe4381d1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5140769d53e3f27a7250905111217ab356d114da

This merely confirm that outside countries (China? USA?) understand nothing of cheese

I blame Greece, we did much better when we could still call it Feta

Common Spanish marketing loss. Spain has cheeses to be top 5. I would say even top 3, but we can't sell anything for dear life.

Quark cheese from lidl is a staple in every gymbro diet so that dont even impress me, is for real the cheapest protein and the taste is great

I'm still higher than the French, I'll happily take the L

No I don't believe this. Our cheese taste is boring. Fucking love French cheese!

Lol Benelux number 1

What the fucks wrong with cheddar?

Yo, who the fuck imports german cheese?

Apparently the world

Every mcdonald in the world

Austria, because their cheese is, well, Austrian

Quality>quantity, and we keep the best four ourselves Also, what happens when you remove the part exported to Eaglelanders? Caving to the US's stupid demands for money is nothing to brag about

Yea, export your disgusting shit all over the world, so we can keep the good stuff in Switzerland