I did spend more than a decade living in a European country famous for its cheese - your nearby supermarket will have some cheese from there :) Was talking about it in that light; Korea is a completely different story.

What you're saying could be true for the US, but in Europe people tend to put 1-2 slices of cheese on their bread, or grate it over something. Even if had as part of a platter with crackers, like with brie, it's nowhere near that much. For cacio e pepe, where the whole sauce is cheese, you only use maybe ~25g per person. This [1] is what 200g of pecorino romano looks like. Good luck eating all of that in one sitting - or don't, as you'll 100% regret it!

> I'd devour the whole bag of cheese sticks if I could.

If we take all cheese sticks that have been sold across the world in the last 24h, I'd be surprised if more than half their total weight was actual cheese.

[1] https://gastronomica.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Pec.-R...