Or New Jerseyans for that matter.

I'll get my omega-3's somewhere else.

I don't like chlorine with my fries but I'll definitely stick some NaCl on there.

I stand corrected! I can't stand fake oil margarine. It doesn't melt on anything either...it just sort of separates into oil and yellow gunk.

Thanks, this thread was starting to make me hungry. All better now, appetite gone.

It's a zinc atom reflavored as a carbon atom.

W4r3z Ru13z

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Thanks, Pat!

Honstly th only way to stand against th systm and mak an impact against the wrongdors is a strong, thical boycott.

Diagonal lines are cheaper than vertical or horizontal lines.

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Mold awayyyyyyyyyyyy

This is why I come to reddit

and the freshness date that you fear...

and it's something to do with beer...

the cheese food has no fear.

Will you fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiind some comfort fooooooood....

and the bread mold that you fear

And the endlessness that you Gruyère

you get gold!! you get gold!!! You all get Gooold!!

Oprah....

And the margarine that you fear

And the countless runs that you reared

Even mild cheese humor requires a sharp mind.

We can do cheddar than this

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If I'm there, the sound of a gunshot.

Dang!

Roasted like a toasted!

Loool I read it as Bri away and didn't notice until I saw your comment. That IS indeed concerning information.

Saem

I've managed to avoid that trap by actually knowing someone named Brie.

Thanks, I was too lazy to go and look it up.

You Munster.

Heston's cheese doesn't need emulsification to be recognisable as cheese, though.

Your reply really tied that oriental/rug comment together.

Throw a spoonful of Peanut Butter in next time. Tastes like Pad Thai.

Well holy shit, it's a real thing.

Thanks!

Decades ago (weird to write that), when I was in 2nd grade, my father, who was an investigator with the FDA, spoke in front of my class as part of a parents show & tell - he brought in potato chips and explained what goes into the manufacturing process, how that a chip is more than just sliced potatoes. At the end of his presentation, no one gave a fuck about all the other junk that went in as part of the process, they just wanted to eat the chips. And since none of the other parents brought snacks, my dad was suddenly the cool parent. Unfortunately, though, that didn't trickle down to me at all and I remained totally uncool...

For some reason, you're comment reminded me of all this.

Really you should be thanking the Master Flavor Chemist aka Master Flavorist that created the wonderful American flavor they put into their cheese food to make it taste just right.

Is bringing a parent to class actually a thing in the USA? I've seen it dozens of times in movies and I'm genuinely curious now.

He's a big wheel down at the cracker factory.

I work for a company that makes the flavors that go into all sorts of foods, and I have absolutely seen american cheese flavor a few times!

FRREEEEEBIIIIIIIIIRRDDD!!!

3meta5me

I like my Kraft Dinner with poutine and maple syrup.

or maybe I did that as a wink to any fellow Tosh fans.

I also made you this baked potato, because you never know.

someone ate at least half of it already.

imitation US citizen

They're outsourcing everything!

But can it grill them?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5U1crD18iM

It was an inside job by the American Dairy Council

A real imitation American flavored cheese food hero

It totally can. Jet fuel can't melt Imitation Pasteurized Process Cheese Food beams.

Steeling this meme to combine with a cheese pun. Unbrielievable.

If you want to live fancy, use truffle oil.

More cheese on the outside of the bread also helps.

Is that better than just buttering the outside?

Even worse is when you decide you're hungry enough to eat it anyway.

He's so fucking good looking it's retarded.

It doesn't have everything the body needs…

The fact I had to click to open this comment made this comment chain worth it and unexpected.

Thanks for the laugh. 😁

Actual cheese melts pretty easily, I find.

Edit: have downvoters never had a four cheese pizza or cheese on toast?

Eh, interesterified fats are intended to replace hydrogenated oils that contain trans-fat as a byproduct. The goal of hydrogenation is to increase melting point and make things resistant to spoilage by reducing the number of double bonds, but trans fats are the byproduct. Interesterification basically swaps the fatty chains around between triglycerides in order to change the total number of double bonds or the average chain length in a single triglyceride to reach the right properties. From a chemical perspective this is a major distinction since the resulting molecule isn't distinguishable from a naturally occurring molecule with the same combination of chains (which likely do occur in nature), unlike transfats, which don't occur in natural products. Saturated fats are certainly not healthy, but naturally saturated fats aren't as bad as trans saturated fats. If an interesterified is indistinguishable from a naturally occurring fat then it can't be considered fundamentally worse.

Edit - Since this is a bit wordy, I'll link to the wikipedia image HERE since it illustrates it pretty good. To note, all 3 molecules involved could potentially exist naturally, but the product of the interesterification reaction may be too expensive or difficult to source naturally, so its produced via this process.

But why change it to being with?

Shelf life?

Personally, I am sticking to real cheese despite the reassurances given in reply to you. I don't need my slices to last a month or a year.

Lots of naturally-occurring compounds (of which this may be one) are poisonous. It sounds like you're making an appeal to nature (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature.)

it didn't melt in a grilled cheese sammich

That's retarded because one of the main reasons to use this type of product, even for blending with real cheeses (I make a baked macaroni and cheese than has 1 part velveeta mixed with 5 parts real cheese and it's amazeballs), is because of the smooth and creamy melt.

Do not recommend for consumption if you like cheese flavor

So basically everyone, and especially white girls?

It's a billion times more nuanced than that. Cheese is a dairy product so it has lactose, and lots of fat, and lots of salt. That's a fact. How healthy is it? I dunno. Understanding how healthy foods are is extraordinarily complex and we barely have a handle on it. Scientific and dietetic bodies constantly revise their previous assumptions as new evidence comes in, but the evidence is difficult to truly get. You can't do really rigorous tests on humans with diet because...well would you volunteer to eat a super restrictive diet for 5 years to see it's effects? What about actual health outcomes? Then it becomes a lot tougher to get really, high caliber stats with very little bias because you need thousands of people to stick to a diet for a long time. Not easy, so we go by proxies which always come with scientific baggage.

What really bothers me though is people calling these foods fake. Chocolate cake is real, is it considered good food that's healthy for you? Not by most people, but it's not fake food. If you can eat it safely (i.e. it's not going to poison you, and you can digest it) then it's real food.

it may be awful fattening, thus carrying with it secondary health effects, or the likes but it's still food.

The ingredients in the cheese are mostly salts and acids that get broken down into the parts we need for muscle movement and nerve conduction. Calcium phosphate is healthy for you regardless if it's in dairy.

And define unhealthy. Is cancer unhelathy? Should cancer patients not eat cheese? What about people with TB? How is cheese bad for you then?

Whey is mostly lactose and protein. It's food. It has nutritional value. Not a lot, but some. Gelatin is mostly protein. All those salts and acids contain phosphorus, calcium, sodium...things we need.

In the end it's low in nutritional value, but it's higher than bark! At least for humans, since bark is almost entirely indigestible by us.

But we eat lots of things low in nutrients! Many strains of rice, cassava, lettuce, etc. have very low nutritional value. Not non-existent, but quite low.

It's not hearty food. It's not fancy food. But it is food. Poor tasting, low value, food.

There's being uninformed, and then there's being so sure of it. That's you :(

I'm not American so maybe I haven't? I've had cheese slices at burger joints and such, so if that's the same stuff then yes (I've never checked exactly which cheese products are used at places like McDonalds and Wendys where I am). It's good enough melted in a burger or a grilled cheese.

But I don't have burgers too often, normally the cheese I eat I buy in blocks for making pasta or cheese n' crackers or enchiladas or whatever.

Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not. I think you are because I don't see what was edgy about detailing the ingredients in processed cheese products, but maybe I'm missing something.

Anyway I will enjoy my GMOs, since nutritionally they're no different than organic (here's what our great nation officially says about it). And I don't eat artificial foods because...the definition of food is something you can digest. Agar is digestible, so it's food. It's useless food, but it's food.

And I don't eat cheese slices because I'm a cheese fiend. I like my cheese strong, sharp, and sometime stinky :D

^ the actual edgy one

We get it, you hate poor people calm down.

First of all, I'm not american. I live in Canada. My father is from Ayrshire (his famiyl is still there), and I lived over a year in Cardiff! I'm a big fan of British cheeses (and Irish ones). I like 'em sharp, crumbly, and almost hurt when you pop them in your mouth because your salivary glands go nuts. Mmm mm mm!

But that being said, just because a food product is shitty and awful tasting, doesn't mean it's not real! It's low quality, but it's real food! And cheese is one of those things that's very hit or miss for many people. So many cultures don't eat any cheese and think it's disgusting, so there is a place for mild cheeses!

Now, cheddar cheese in Canada at least comes in many styles. Mild, medium, old, extra old are the common ones. Same recipe, just different curing ages. Old and extra old are pretty crumbly and more like you'd recognize. Whisky cheddar also exists and it's the best thing ever.

Cheddar cheese is always white until a dye is added. Several products have done this, usually colorful ground seeds, sometimes with flavor (paprika has been used) but usually flavorless.

This is because natural cheese is white to kinda yellow. Over 300 years ago when cream became more common, the fats that made the cheese yellow got skimmed off and sold, and the cheese went white. Some people dyed their cheeses to try to get back that color, and well now we go nuts with it.

I find vitamin and mineral fortified foods a lot more worrisome. The recent study showing the link between calcium supplementation and heart disease is just one of many examples why simply dumping vitamins into someone's body often doesn't work well for long term health. I'm much more comfortable with additional substances my body will just ignore than additional substances that I need to stay healthy.

I can't tell if you're joking or not

and improve the flavor that disappears when food is not fresh.

I'd say masking the flavor would be a better description. Cheese flavoring and the flavor of actual cheese are often worlds apart. Same goes for so many frozen dinners and the like.

Gelatin is derived from animal protein, which kills the animal in the process, thus animal Ghosts. WooooOOOooooo.....

Becuz Monsanto gluten gmo pesticidez

Powdered Bone Slime

The number one ingredient is dihydrogen monoxide!!!11

The product itself is "scary" because it represents a kind of fucked up thought process. Like who would make this, who would consume it and why? Considering it apparently tastes like dogshit. Is this manufacturer just trying to make as much money as possible using part of an ingredient that is normally laborious, requires a lot of resources and time consuming to make?

If so, it is worrying that these companies put profit over food quality, and that they're becoming even wealthier and more powerful. If processed foods like this are becoming more prevalent, it's worrying that people might be influenced into buying this either because of a lack of knowledge, a lack of choice or a lack of finances, in regards to just taste.

Besides that, the fact that this product exists says something scary about the consumption habits and resource use of Western society. Are we really that low on cheese that we need to create this crap to meet demand or are we just producing so much dairy (at the expense of the environment) that it's actually profitable to use a bit of dairy to produce this vague cheese imitation? Like oh we have souch whey lying around, might as well try to make "cheese!"

It's not lacto-vegetarian

Ingredients are listed in order of prominence. So the first item is the primary ingredient, the second item has the next most, etc. So for example when I look at cheese and there's gonna be some cheap gelatin filler tossed in there I'm hoping it lists gelatin last and actual ingredients first.

I think disturbing is more accurate. Disturbing and kinda sad.

Because tons of people think this shit is food. It's scary in the same way millions of people electing trump is scary

Gelatin is ground up hooves and bones. Not really necessary for cheese.

Your yogurt has gelatin? Why?

Sorry man. If you come by my county I'll hook you up

I got a McDonald's hamburger once. Massachusetts state police officers aren't all bad.

You're not missing much. When I've been arrested it was usually a sandwhich with stale bread, a slice of the lowest quality ham that may be expired, and the thinnest slice of overly processed cheese. Rarely had butter or any sort of condiment.

It comes in a brown lunch bag with a juice box and an apple. The Apple is special because it's bruised, looks like the worm had its way with it, the skin is chewy, and the flesh turns brown the instant you take a bite.

Then guys would take the apples and throw them at the wall, while shouting "Apple sauce!"

They must just be tired of seeing you

I once was arrested and was in long enough to get TWO sandwiches... Trust me you do not want that sandwich

I'm starting to feel like a real connoisseur for eating Kraft cheese - like it even has cheese in it. Might go and get some wine for this pairing.

I had a similar experience taking a lactose intolerance test. They gave me a 2 liter jug full of water and lactose (think water and chalk dust). I said fuck it and downed the whole thing. As I finished the nurse came back and said "Oh my! You didn't have to drink the whole thing!" - thanks for the heads up.

Not lactose intolerant.

you aren't retarded, you possibly drank enough fluids to dilute your sample and pass your test, IF it was just a cheap dip stick test and wasn't being sent to a lab

I did a similar thing for a UTI. No idea if it really works but desperate times call for desperate measures.

Haha yeah, that shit's meant for cooking, not drinking. It's great for making glazes and for using in holiday recipes like cranberry relish.

I did the same thing but there was still a drug test and through self testing I realized that neither that nor the two weeks I had allotted myself were enough to pass, so I had to find an alternate method.

Likewise with whole foods. I found out that actual real lemonade (on the shelf) smells and tastes like a gym bag

At least you ended up with 750,000,000% of the daily recommended Vitamin C intake so you're set for like 25.6 lives.

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Should add some poppy seed muffins too. Would take a lot of the attention off of whatever you were trying to hide.

VERY tart!

Sad!

No, it was a pie.