3 ILLEGAL French Cheeses 🧀

3 Illegal French Cheeses

There are many many more French cheeses that are illegal in the US, but these 3 highlight the reasons many are banned.

In short, for a cheese to be imported to the US, he current rule requires them to be pasteurized OR aged longer than 60 days.

There are also some banned ingredients, like the vegetable ash in Morbier, as well as the mites in Mimolette… which deserves its own video.

(These cheeses were filmed in France… I'm not an International cheese smuggler 🤓)

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[TheSurvivor-tvjf]

Such dangerous cheese! Now put straight lead in the lunchables.

[Unfaux-compte]

For those who don't know : the charcoal line in the morbier is here because at the time it was elaborated it allowed to preserve the cheese between milking process. Usually the amount of milk wasn't enough so you put charcoal on top the of first harvest and you completed the mold with the second milking.

[kronkthedonk]

And just like that I became a criminal. "Hey man you wanna buy some... cheese?" (Flashes open trench coat to man leaving with a wine bottle)

[AleAsLison]

These cheeses are all god tier, and not insanely expensive in europe, as you can find good, genuine cheeses from commercial brands.

[smolbluegoblin]

French guy here ! A lot of traditional cheeses here are made with raw milk, which means most of them can't be exported easily.
The morbier, which is my favourite, has that ash layer because it was done with two loads of milk; they first put the first part of caillé in the mold from the morning's milk, put some ash on the surface so it doesn't cure, and then add the evening's milk caillé later !

[andrews.]

as an italian i am always baffled by what the US complains about french and italians products only to put literal garbage and radioactive materials in their food...

[juliettee]

Hello !
French viewer here, I have to tell you that your prononciation of those cheese name is very very good ! 👍

[kevinleporner]

Little story for Morbier : when winter arrived in Franche Comté ( East of France), cows were not producing enough milk to make a full cheese in the morning and the evening, so the farmers kept the combined morning and evening milking to make one cheese, and separate it with a layer of charcoal from their wood fired oven

[idonotknowwhyyoutubeletsyo]

Natural milk products and plant charcoal are a problem. But crude oil based dyes, chalk, bleached meat, chemical feed, mercury and lead aren't.
Plant charcoal is actually beneficial and widely used for treating digestive problems.

[CarlaDonola]

My condolences to you guys for not being allowed to have morbier. It's a fantastic, FANTASTIC cheese.

[Outerspacepotatoman]

Fun fact about morbier, the ash separates the night milk from the day milk!

[Peanuts.In.Wonderland]

French Haute-Savoie here !
Cheese is really a speciality of our country. Each region has its specialties (here raclette, reblochon, tomme, abondance) But my favorite is the Roquefort, which is not from my region, it is slightly spicy. A delight for the taste buds 😍❤️🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵

[minlolanda]

I'm from Brazil and used to be part of the "Dairy Laboratory" of the Food Engineering department in my university. One of my professors went to the US for a conference and wanted to take a Brazilian cheese delicacy for her colleagues to try. She was almost immediately arrested in the customs for "Bioterrorism threat" for taking a piece of cheese with a bacterial strain not allowed by the FDA, but everywhere else in the world. It's about damn time the US review their biological legislation bc for god's sake, it's just cheese lmao

ps: she was released after discarting the cheese and just went to the conference without it but damn, that was a really out of proportion reaction by the authorities lol

[jahanas]

What a surprise. These things are banned but not all the ultra-processed junk.

[DrSabot-A]

American food regulations are so funny, because these centuries old cheese are illegal to produce and distribute but high fructose corn syrup is allowed to be in anything and everything.

[romanus]

I'll never understand how Americans can tolerate heavy metals on food but not raw milk.

[legrognard]

I don't know if you learned french but your pronunciation is impeccable ! Bravo !

[ld_Scratch]

Well you see France your mistake was not putting corn syrup in it

[VictiSeal]

The charcoal one is crazy considering nobody is stopping you from eating charcoal by itself.

[FaveruziTuskact]

Thank you for this.
Fast and informative.