Slightly off topic now, but I really don't understand how a nation like the US eats so much cheese, yet simply cannot make cheese :/ It's horrible depressing tasteless mush.
I wonder if there's a specific reason you can't get real cheese in the US.
the uk seems to be particularly good at cheese (disclaimer - i am an englishman). it is something you don't appreciate til you leave (here in chile the only decent cheese i could find to have with my christmas cake was an argentinian parmesan!).