Before coming here, I thought our cheeses are somewhere between good and OK. Now I feel like that sandwich on cold turkey, getting myself off of cheese.

So why don't you set up Dragan's Perfect Cheese Importing Company? Importing pasta and olive oil for the receptive US market made fortunes for Italian immigrants not so long ago. I suppose it's a lot harder now that retailers dominate food, but you'd only need a middle-sized chain to commit to your product for a year and you'd never have to work again. ;-)

"You're doing a great job" is what you tell a kid who somehow managed to not completely mangle the homework, as an encouragement, in fear that they'll just give up trying.

If local producers are not to be encouraged unless they are perfect and imported cheeses are unavailable, too expensive or unattractive for whatever reason, how will your problem be resolved?

It's not hard enough to be poked. And it doesn't need any stick, it sticks to the knife - equally yecchs as the bun which sticks to your teeth if you try to chew it (but why would you chew it - it's too soft for that).

Wouldn't know- I don't buy foods I don't like. ;-)

As for the last paragraph: seldom have I endured a more dismaying mangle. ;-)