http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/...lth.3834952.jp
Of course, my main source of information on the cheese "epidemic" is the borderline-obsessive dietitian bitch I occasionally see flipping by BBC America when Top Gear and Gordon Ramsey aren't on.
As for Americans and cheese, most of us would probably consider Kraft cheese slices a health food product and only use it on sandwiches. Cheeses that actually taste good are undoubtedly foreign, automatically French, and therefore must be avoided on principle, rather than out of a devotion to processed food and you
still haven't answered the chav question, I'm genuinely curious as to what cultural subsect they belong to.