What’s muenster doing way up there? I never knew that.
It’s Munster on the list, a washed-rind cheese from France. Muenster cheese in America is probably somewhere down around a used Ford Focus.
Oh wow, now I get it. I always wonder why there was relatively many references in American culture to a relatively little known French cheese.
But now I do!
Oooohhh
That explains also my second question, “Why is muenster misspelled.” Got it.
Oh I love this. I’m going to hit my coworker that loves showing off his car with “goat cheese is more expensive per/lb than your car!” Lol
Give a man a Roquefort, he can eat for day. Give a man a Ferrari SF90 Stradale, he can eat for a lifetime.
I don’t think it’s recommended that you eat a whole roquefort at once. The Ferrari even less so.
OK, but I’d like to see some information on depreciation before I make a purchase decision.
It says “max $400” but doesn’t list ome of the really fun cheese like 50 year aged cheddar
Yeah, I want to try a cheese that costs more than a Ferrari
Sounds like you’re after the 100 year aged cheddar. That was like $400 a pound and sold in quarter pound cuts when I last saw it. Realistically you can’t really taste the difference between 10 year and 25 year aged cheddar, but it gets crumblier as it ages, so 100 year is great for bragging rights but ultimately for your average splashing on fancy cheese just go for 7-10 year aged
For a real splurge, you want a Ferrari made of 100-year-old cheddar
That has been my experience with most hyper-expensive food. Actually, all of it that I’ve tried.
fun cheese
cheddar
I thought you would bring out some obscure stuff. Like at least Esrom or Harzer Roller.
This explains why I just love that new cheese smell…
Why does the x axis start at 5?
Exponential instead of linear.
And where are they buying cheese? At my local Walmart four versions of Cheddar (mild, medium, sharp, and extra sharp) are all $4.22 per pound, less than the 5 minimum.
I would assume they are talking about the grade of cheddar that you can buy alongside fancy cheeses. Like, cheddar off a wheel
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Ahh, thanks. Don’t know why I didn’t think to check the spacing of the rest of the numbers
Well at least I’m not buying cheese more expensive than my car on my weekly groceries.
What in the chicken fried cheese curd is this semi log scale?
It’s not a log scale, it’s a wheel scale
A “I wanted to make my graph look this way so I chose this particular version of a log tranform” scale.
A bit cheesy if you ask me.
Damn, I didn’t notice that.
lol i never realized the Ford F-150 Lightning was cheaper per pound than the standard F-150 considering that the lightning is heavier. Also wild that I’ve eaten cheese that was worth more than a RAV4 per pound lmao
Might depend on the trim. Unless pricing has changed recently, a Lightning in the basic work truck trim is less expensive than a comparable gas engine work trim with the same size cab, bed, and 4WD. Usually only companies buy that trim, though.
oh wow i never realized that.
Why no individually-wrapped Kraft singles?
A pound of those is 50% plastic, throws off the scale. And then there’s the wrappers as well.
If I were a graph, I would be this graph!
Why cheddar and mozzarella so cheap?
Mass production, probably.
I don’t know of a reason off the top off my head it would be cheaper than gruyere otherwise, being more processed.Mozzarella can be used the same day it is made, that is not true for Gruyère (to my knowledge).
Ah shit, I looked it up. That’s actually a totally different cheese than I was thinking of.
Fresh cheese, such as mozzarella and ricotta, is quicker to make, and a lot less concentrated. It doesn’t need ageing, and there’s a lot less milk going into a kilo of cheese. It’s also less work.
On the flip side, they don’t last as long. If you want to get fresh ricotta and you live far away from where it’s produced it might cost you a fortune, as it cannot be stored in the cheese shop as long as a wheel of aged cheese.
And cheddar?
Good cheddar is expensive. I suspect this graph is very generous in what it considers cheddar.
Globally, the style and quality of cheeses labelled as cheddar varies greatly, with some processed cheeses packaged as “cheddar”.¹
Processed cheese typically contains around 50–60% cheese and 40–50% other ingredients.²
It:'s also fundamentally a bit weird to compare the prices of these cheeses, as cheese prices tend to be extremely local in nature. What’s a fancy foreign cheese in one place is just traditional food in another. And of course, price and quality varies a lot within each cheese. A lot of what is sold as mozzarella is also not recognizable as such in my opinion.
Mozz is relatively easy and quick to make, and gets used in a bunch of foods that are pretty popular like pizza so lots of it gets made.
The cost of most things broadly comes down to supply and demand, if it’s expensive there’s either a low supply or high demand or both, if it’s cheaper there’s usually a high supply or low demand or both.
Some prices are artificially inflated by limiting the supply to intentionally not keep up with the demand, like with diamonds and houses. Illegal drugs are similar, there is always some demand for them and they’re consumed when used. Prices are high because supplies are limited due to the legal risks. When cannabis was illegal prices were higher, but since many states legalized prices have fallen because there’s just more of the stuff around
For funsies I calculated the Price per Pound for the M1A2 SEPv3 tank, which worked out to be about $163/lb. I guess it make sense that it’s at the super car range haha
Where do warships come in on the chart?
Once again using Wikipedia numbers for the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, with a cost of $5.5 billion in 2024 dollars and a displacement of 101,600 long ton (227584006.38 lbs), that works out to be $24.16 if my math is correct.
What a bargain!
Sucks if your recipe only calls for half a kilo though
The world needs more charts that are as of the wall as this.
