#this is the kind of media analysis i live for
Has Wallace from gromit ever had American cheese? Would he accept it like a real cheese or would it incur his wrath
wrath, unquestionably. wallace in general loves all cheeses, true, but we can extrapolate what he enjoys in any given cheese based off his favourite, wensleydale.
wallace looks for multiple things in a cheese, and most well-received cheeses are known for their ability to accompany snacks (wensleydale in particular has a very light, sweet flavour, perfect for accompanying things like crackers and fruit). american cheese lacks both a lighter dessert-like taste the way things like wensleydale and brie offer, and the sharper flavours of things like cheddar and gorgonzola that are meant to be key accents to an entree. wensleydale (and most other cheeses) owes its richness to the high fat content, whereas american cheese has been almost completely stripped of it.
wallace would initially be on board for american cheese, given that it is pre-sliced for convenience and readily affordable, and he would be willing to give an underdog cheese a chance (wensleydale was a failing company before it got the wallace bump after all), but would quickly find it lacking in everything else he typically looks for in a cheese, from its fat content to its uniform texture to the fact that by the time you’ve carried it out to the park for a nice cheese picnic on a warm day it’s already melted.
“wallace would respect your decision to like a food he doesn’t” wallace literally broke off an otherwise perfectly healthy and loving romantic relationship with a woman the second he found out she was allergic to dairy. wallace does not fuck around with cheese.
