I'm so glad that in NL, the cheese industry is so massive that cheap cheese exists, and is at least half decent

I always thought of the point known as 'making it' was the point at which i could just go to the grocery store or a restaurant or a movie and just not worry about how much I was spending comfortable that I had enough. Never got there.

I’m not in Wisconsin but Switzerland, and yeah cheese is cheaper at the source. This fondue of 800g (around 2 ducklings in freedom unit) would be 30 bucks.

But honestly everything is cheaper outside of the US.

I was ultra poor as a child and now that I am an adult and make a 3 figure income, I don't look at the prices very often. It is fucking wonderful. But my wife is always giving me a hard time for paying to much or getting the expensive one when the cheap one is just as good. I don't care though. It is bliss not having to care about the prince of little things.

Yesterday I grabbed a bag of mixed cheddar and mozzarella because I thought I was wealthy enough to not check the price when buying cheese. When I got to the register, I found out it was SIX FUCKING HUNDRED PESOS ($30 for my freedom-loving friends).

We accidentally spent € 30 on four pieces of cheese the other day. (At least it was good cheese.)

It is not cheaper at the source here in WI. There are 4 large plants with factory shops within 20 minutes of my house and the price there is the same as at the box store for national brands. The profit margins are so low when selling to corpos that manufacturers can't afford to charge less for direct to consumer sales. Still shop directly with them to keep my money local and out of the hands of Walmart and other corporations.

My grocery store has a basket of tiny bits of cheese that are all under $3. I check it every time and sometimes find some real gems like aged parmesan or a bit of raclette. Plus it's a small amount so you're guaranteed to use all of it.

I make a pretty good living and my family really loves cheese, so I buy fancy stuff pretty frequently, but I check the prices because some of them are just ridiculous. The ten to twelve dollars I spend on a chunk the size of a deck of cards or two is bad enough, but some are two or three times that price for the same amount and I just can't bring myself to do it. I could do it, but it's just hard to believe we'd enjoy the cheese that much.

Impossible. No one is that wealthy.

Tell me about it. On most days, it contributes about 50% to my grocery bill. But I just can't resist the taste of freshly sliced cheese.

i get paid in gov cheese

For a second there I thought the image was a picture of cheese cubes on a skewers being dipped in cheese. Then I looked a little closer and saw it was bread 🙄

Someone (with money) needs to make the cheese-covered cheese-on-a-stick happen! Let us know how it goes. I'm sure that not all cheeses will work well for this purpose. Here's my ideas:

• Smoked Gouda dipped in proper Mexican (white, not orange LOL) Salsa con Queso.
• Extra Sharp Cheddar dipped in sweet cream cheese frosting (like you'd put on cinnamon rolls).
• Pepper jack dipped in a mild cheddar then chilled and coated with caramel/butterscotch hard shell topping with just a smidge of finely shredded Parmesan sprinkled on top before the topping becomes hard.

That’s not “financially stable”, that’s “upper class”

Counterpoint against the image, cheese fondue is highly overrated so that's money well saved.