US cheese imports

As US cheese imports have grown, more babies have been named Maverick, a correlation of 0.980 that connects European dairy to bold baby naming with the import confidence of a chart that treats Gruyère and fighter pilot nomenclature as equivalent expressions of American cosmopolitanism. The cheese is imported, the name is unconventional, and both are chosen by the same culture: one that wants its products distinctive and its children memorable.

Cheese imports grew from about 250,000 to over 430,000 metric tons. Maverick grew to over 4,000 babies per year. Both eighteen-year upward curves driven by the same cultural openness: America importing more diverse foods and adopting more diverse names simultaneously. The shared variable is a nation broadening its tastes in every category.

Eighteen years of cheese imports and Maverick babies is the globalization-meets-individualism correlation: a nation importing more specialty products and bestowing more distinctive names, both measures of a culture that values the specific over the generic. The Brie arrives, the Maverick is born, and both are signs of a country that has decided ordinary is insufficient.