@sjw I'm lucky enough that in my state, due to the intensive Italian colonization, there is a high production of something called "colonial cheese", which is a simple cheese that was created here and takes only milk, salt and yeast and is aged for up to 30 days, and it's relatively inexpensive. It's not a fancy "named" cheese like provolone or muzzarela, but at least it's real cheese.
And still most people buy processed crap because processed crap has fancier names.