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Individually wrapped cheese slices could lead to less spoilage.
Except in practice individual slices all go bad at (roughly) the same time. If a block of cheese goes moldy you can just slice off the mold and keep going. Cheese goes bad outside-in, pre-sliced cheese has way more surface area.
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As someone from Wisconsin it is wrong to even call that stuff "cheese". The plastic wrapping and the contents are pretty much the same thing.
Meh, this is just snobbery. Processed American cheese is still in fact a cheese, and whether you like it or not, it has its place.
Why eat something so intensely boring, when there is so much great cheese out there?
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Meh, this is just snobbery. Processed American cheese is still in fact a cheese, and whether you like it or not, it has its place.
Isn't it technically a "processed cheese product"? Why eat something so intensely boring, when there is so much great cheese out there?
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Meh, this is just snobbery. Processed American cheese is still in fact a cheese, and whether you like it or not, it has its place.
Isn't it technically a "processed cheese product"? Why eat something so intensely boring, when there is so much great cheese out there?
The answer to your second question is: Texture. The way process (not "processed") cheese melts is definitely different than similar cheeses. There's a gooeyness and meltability that's unique for applications like a grilled cheese or burger, and good process cheese is just cheese that's been melted with a few salts.
It turns out there are many different American cheeses:
Pasteurized Process Cheese - Various cheeses melted together with an emulsifying agent.
Pasteurized Process Cheese Food - Mostly cheese, but with a higher % of 'the other stuff'.
Pasteurized Process American Slices - Not actually cheese. A vegetable oil horrorshow.
This topic brings up the issue of wrapping in Japan. Japan is notorious for having excessive wrapping. Individually wrapped cookies in a box with a plastic tray to hold each cookie. The bottom half of the box is sealed with a plastic tear off cover. The top of the box slides over. Then the entire box is wrapped in paper. If you purchase if they will then put it in a branded paper bag. If it's raining they will then p…
> some major major concerted national PR effort against it, getting celebrities, politicians, etc all on board pushing for months or years Why do you need PR when the parties responsible for all this wrapping are corporations ? It’s not the dagashi down the street giving you six layers of wrapping. When big corporations are doing something you don’t like, you don’t use PR to fix it. We’ve had plenty of PR about recyc…
corps have changed by PR. no demand = no sales = change.
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As someone from Wisconsin it is wrong to even call that stuff "cheese". The plastic wrapping and the contents are pretty much the same thing.
Meh, this is just snobbery. Processed American cheese is still in fact a cheese, and whether you like it or not, it has its place.
Not according to EU law. Over here, Kraft Singles could only be described as "processed slices (made using a blend of cheese, vegetable oils and milk proteins)".
I throw out a lot less when I can buy large quantities of smaller "perishable units" at once, vesus shopping little and often.
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Meh, this is just snobbery. Processed American cheese is still in fact a cheese, and whether you like it or not, it has its place.
>Processed American cheese is still in fact a cheese, and whether you like it or not Not according to EU law. Over here, Kraft Singles could only be described as "processed slices (made using a blend of cheese, vegetable oils and milk proteins)".
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Meh, this is just snobbery. Processed American cheese is still in fact a cheese, and whether you like it or not, it has its place.
>Processed American cheese is still in fact a cheese, and whether you like it or not Not according to EU law. Over here, Kraft Singles could only be described as "processed slices (made using a blend of cheese, vegetable oils and milk proteins)".
As long as consumers are clearly informed about what they are eating (via labeling) and the food is safe for humans to consume, constructing a legal definition of products like 'cheese', 'ice cream', etc. just seems like pandering to interest groups.
This topic brings up the issue of wrapping in Japan. Japan is notorious for having excessive wrapping. Individually wrapped cookies in a box with a plastic tray to hold each cookie. The bottom half of the box is sealed with a plastic tear off cover. The top of the box slides over. Then the entire box is wrapped in paper. If you purchase if they will then put it in a branded paper bag. If it's raining they will then p…
>Individually wrapped cookies in a box with a plastic tray to hold each cookie. When used in cases where an item should be consumed sparingly anyway (as with sweets), I don't see the individual wrappers as excessive. It helps keep the food from spoiling due to exposure, thus prolonging the useful life of the product.