The cheese slicer is a great Norwegian invention and much used in all the Nordics. And The Netherlands. And Germany?

I think it mostly boils down to “what is cheese” to you. If you think you can even have an argument about whether you should cut “cheese” with a cheese slicer, then you come from a place where they make sense.

In my fridge I’ve got parmigiano, gorgonzola dolce and I just finished a rare piece of emmenthal. A slicer would have been useful only with the last one of those.

But my sandwiches! I hear all my fellow northerners cry. They’re great with brie or toma. No slicer needed.