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As a Swiss, I'm just gonna silently judge everyone here. 🧐
As is tradition.
My experience in the UK was the gruyère was a bit bland as a cheese. But since moving to France that's changed completely. Gruyère can be of widly different qualities and aged for different times for very different end flavours. The opposite is true of cheddar, which in Britain is a big spectrum of flavours and textures, but often in France is a pretty bland 'burger cheese slice' affair.
Melt it
Maybe dip some bread in it
It should have tasted sharper than that. You might have ended up with a mild one.
Either that, or your taste in cheese is VERY sharp!
Edit: this is just from my own limited experience, but I find that the cave-aged stuff is much sharper and more flavorful.
I once got some from the store because i love the taste and my roomies threw it out after two days because they thought it has gone bad and the smell was covering everything in the fridge. It was in a closed box and everything but they couldnt handle it. The taste wasnt like the smell but still not mild at all.
French onion soup.
Gruyère has a pretty light taste, more something you put for the texture. If you want taste go for some goat, bleu, or Munster (beware that one will make your fridge smell)
Or… Époisses de Bourgogne…
(This is the cheese falsely stated to be banned on French public transit.)
It’s both super stinky and has a… striking… flavor.
Oh yes
That is how my gruyere has been in Midwest US
Isn't it fancy Swiss cheese?
Depends. If you get Gruyere in the US, there's zero relation to Switzerland there. The US declared gruyere a generic name and so its Swiss or French name protections are void there and thus no guarantee about origin is made.
In the EU there's the difference between (Swiss) Gruyere and French Gruyere which are quite different according to Wikipedia.
Thanks for this great answer! I was thinking about swiss-style (like with the holes) and didn't even consider that some cheese might be imported from actual Switzerland!
Not sure sure about about fancy, but yes, it’s Swiss cheese. It originated in a part of Switzerland, which also has a museum dedicated to the work of H.R. Giger, the guy who designed the Alien in the film of the same name. Some of his art is… weird. There’s an 8ft tall Alien on the third floor.
Wasn't his art inspired by a psychedelic trip of some kind?
Can't find him saying it outright but this is interesting:
SECONDS: What is the relationship of your art to psychedelia?
GIGER: I think there’s a relationship. Not so in the colors but I have some older works that look very psychedelic.
SECONDS: What have drugs done for the art world?
GIGER: You know, drugs are forbidden in Switzerland. Even psychedelic drugs that open you up are forbidden. LSD was invented by Albert Hoffman, who is Swiss. He had his first psychedelic experience on a bicycle, after accidentally getting some LSD on his fingers. He didn’t know what he had discovered. He was looking for something that would help women in labor. He changed the world. Many artists symbolize the psychedelic experience with a bicycle. This man is now 88 years old. I met him about six months ago. He’s very healthy and intelligent. Each day, he hangs upside down with his wife for half an hour, like a bat, in gravity boots.
SECONDS: You know Timothy Leary too, right?
GIGER: Yes, but not too well. When he was in Switzerland, he was looking for a place to hide because they wanted to put him in jail. My father was a pharmacist and knew Leary was in trouble. He was not very excited about Leary being in Switzerland, so I didn’t tell him I was trying to get help for him. He wouldn’t have been pleased.
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