cn72554@gmail.com wrote:
> The cheese situation in this country is atrocious. When I lived in
> Chiba, my local supermarket had a choice of ONE type of grated cheese.
> It was about 400 yen for a tiny packet.

My local supermarkets weren't too bad. Quite a range including
reasonable QBB cheddars. I don't expect a lot of cross-cultural
foods in supermarkets. I won't tell you about the availability
of Greek and Italian ingredients in our local Carrefour when we
were living in France; much less Japanese ones.

> 国産　cheese seems to be of much higher quality... I have recently
> discovered 北海道 camenbert which is very good.

Well, dunno about "higher quality", but the 北海道 camembert is quite
good.

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