Comment on Microplastic overdose
ieightpi@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Or just don’t buy American cheese because it’s gross and fake.
vxx@lemmy.world 11 months ago
[deleted]HorseWithNoName@lemm.ee 11 months ago
The name brand in the US is Kraft Singles, but at least here that type of orange cheese is just referred to as American regardless of brand
octoperson@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I’ve never heard of Chester cheese. There’s Cheshire cheese, but that’s quite crumbly and wouldn’t hold up to being packaged like this. You might also be thinking of cheddar. A genuine cheddar would be too brittle, but in modern marketing, cheddar is often shorthand for any homogenous, yellow cheese. So this stuff might be described as cheddar on the packet.
I think this stuff is more of a cheese-flavoured sauce, that they inject into the bags and leave to set. It’s more an invention of the convenience food industry, than any culinary tradition.
netchami@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
The British don’t know anything about food either.
Pulptastic@midwest.social 11 months ago
I have come full circle. I loved processed American cheese food (pacf) when I was a kid because I was a kid. Then I got into fancy sliced cheeses like cheddar and Gouda. But they don’t melt as nicely! So now back to pacf for burgers and melts because it is the best ingredient for that job.
Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I still think its odd that people call that american cheese. Like, do people in the USA really want their name attached to that stuff?
bitwolf@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Forreal haha. I just call them Kraft Singles bc I refuse to acknowledge it as cheese.
Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I just call it processed cheese.
MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s delicious and who cares if something is real or not?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Its also cheap, tho.
TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Here’s the weird thing about that:
Sargento Colby Jack at Walmart, 34.7 cents/ounce
Kraft Singles at 31.1 cents/ounce
That’s an egregious example because you can find better sliced cheese (store brand) for much cheaper than Sargento even, but still disturbing to see how expensive those singles really are.
Pasta4u@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Worth every cent
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
American cheese is the best cheese for a cheeseburger because it melts without splitting.
bitwolf@lemmy.one 11 months ago
I always go for sharp cheddar instead which I feel is close if not better… or Bleu cheese, although that definitely is crumbly.
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
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Tattorack@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Just like the cheeseburger your mother could barely afford.