How do you feel about Kraft individually wrapped orange American-style cheese food product slices?

[HopeHoops]

12 votes, 2 passes | Time left: Unlimited
	(puke)
	6 (50%)
	Cheese-whiz in plastic.
	0 (0%)
	I love them. I also like catching my farts in the bathtub.
	2 (17%)
	If they weren't individually wrapped, I'd never use any form of cheese food product.
	1 (8%)
	Waste of plastic.
	0 (0%)
	Waste of cheese food product - the plastic's kind of cool to play with.
	0 (0%)
	Sliced ACTUAL American cheese doesn't need no stinkin' plastic wrap, man.
	0 (0%)
	What the hell is cheese?
	0 (0%)
	What the hell is cheese food product? (and don't vote for this because you REALLY don't want to know)
	0 (0%)
	Anything's good after enough bong hits.
	3 (25%)
	2 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[cyberswede]

1. I remember being fascinated by those as a kid

We had regular sliced American cheese at our house. The first time I saw those wrapped slices at a neighbor's house, I thought they were so fancy! I was about 5 or 6 (this was in the 1970s).

Strangely, I think the Kraft singles were more expensive (they must have been, because we had 8 kids in our family, so Mom was a frugal shopper).

[ohiosmith]

2. Why do you hate America?

[HopeHoops]

4. (rim shot)

[Pool Hall Ace]

46. Its Amercia

[pipi_k]

3. Hey you haven't lived

until you've eaten orange cheese food slices thawed out after being frozen for a month or two.

Yeah...I freeze it, then thaw it out for grilled cheese sandwiches.

Even better with fried Spam.

[HopeHoops]

5. Trivia: SPAM is a contraction of "spiced ham" and yet the only spice in it is salt.

[cyberswede]

6. Did you learn that at the Spam Museum?

http://www.spam.com/spam-101/the-spam-museum

[HopeHoops]

7. No, the Hormel website.

Somewhere I have an Andy Warhol type image of a can of Campbell's Cream of SPAM soup (with a bowl of pink slime in the image). It's really old and probably on a floppy disk. I've been looking for it.

[GeorgeGist]

22. This one

[HopeHoops]

23. YES! YES! YES! Thank you! My late father-in-law LOVED that picture.

[hifiguy]

18. Hey, for all the Germans and Scandihoovians here in Minnesota

that IS spice.

[HopeHoops]

20. For as much as I make fun of SPAM, the ingredients are pretty good compared to other such things.

It's actually derived from useable meat, not offal.

[A Simple Game]

34. I haven't tried it yet but have seen bacon flavored spam in stores.

I have come close to buying some 3 or 4 times. When I do, and I probably will, it will be my first spam purchase in about 10 years.

Mmmm, bacon.

[HopeHoops]

40. My commuting buddy from 20 years ago were debating which is worse...

... SPAM or Deviled Ham. We did not come to a mutual agreement until he stopped for gas and I went in for a soda. There on the counter, opposite the soda fridge, was a blue tin marked "Deviled SPAM". That sort of solved the matter.

[A Simple Game]

41. Must be branching out to increase sales.

Haven't seen that on yet. My wife likes deviled ham and buys it occasionally. Good thing it is in small cans, she doesn't get much help eating it.

The best thing I can say about deviled ham is that it is an excuse to put mayo on bread.

[HopeHoops]

42. Mayo and swiss cheese is good. I don't do meat anymore.

On Edit: I don't do "miracle whip" either - just real mayo.

[woodsprite]

8. My American cheese of choice: New Yorker White American

In my mind, orange cheese is supposed to be cheddar, not American. And let's face it, even Cheeze Whiz has more flavor than those processed cheese food slices.

[HopeHoops]

9. Most fast food joints use orange-colored processed American-style cheese food product.

I don't buy colored cheese (except marble-jack for accent). Cheddar is white. All cheeses are white unless they are a blue/gorgonzola style or infused with wine or mixed with herbs. If a cow squirts out orange milk, there's something SERIOUSLY wrong with the cow. That extends to goats as well.

When I was in grade school I don't remember ever getting a grilled cheese that didn't have orange "American" cheese. Then again, they had to serve it with tomato soup because the things were so hard you could break the table if you pounded it on them long enough. You had to soak them in the soup just to gnaw off a section. That's really fun when you have braces or missing baby teeth.

[Ptah]

10. I like them and I don't take baths. Showers for me.

[HopeHoops]

13. Can you catch a fart in the shower?

Never tried it. Wait - not saying I've tried it in the bathtub either. I was just wondering.

[Kaleva]

11. This message was hidden by Jury decision.

A Jury voted 6-0 to hide this post on Wed Jun 8, 2012, 12:30 PM. Reason: This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate. (See Community Standards.)

[HopeHoops]

12. That is NOT funny.

Okay, maybe a little bit.

[IcyPeas]

14. what's wrong with Cheez Whiz?

it's great on toast

[HopeHoops]

15. Actually, I don't think I've ever had Cheeze Whiz. I've had Velveeta and Easy Cheese.

I sort of lump them in the same category. BTW, there's a clear error in "The Blues Brothers". When they get back to Elwood's building, the old man yells, "Hey boy, did you get my Cheese Whiz?" and he tosses him a can of Easy Cheese. Cheese Whiz comes in a jar with a lid, not a "whipped cream" nozzle.

[hifiguy]

19. The only proper place for Cheez Whiz

is on a Philly Steak wit' and Wiz.

[GoneOffShore]

26. The Wiz steak is losing ground these days.

There are far better sandwiches in Philly than the "Cheez Stake".

DiNic's roast pork with broccoli rabe, long hots and provolone.

Any sandwich from Paesano's.

[hifiguy]

27. It's been a while since I was in Philly.

Spent nine months there working on a project back in '00-01. Went to Tony Luke Jr's at least once a week for a steak wit' and Wiz.

[A Simple Game]

35. The only reason I can think of to put Cheese Whiz on a Steak sub

is because you are cheap and too lazy to slice the good cheese.

But then I have never tried it, and at 61 years of age I doubt that I ever will unless someone gives me one.

[Major Nikon]

28. It's great for sealing cracks around windows

[hobbit709]

16. Where I come from, that ain't cheese.

[HopeHoops]

17. No it isn't. That's why they call it "processed American-style cheese food product".

I'm not sure I want to know exactly what that means, but it sounds sort of like the cheese equivalent of Motted Meat Food Product (think Dinty Moore).

[Major Nikon]

30. "American cheese" is a processed cheese product

The federal government defines it that way. See title 21, part 133 for further reading and all the definitions.

[HopeHoops]

39. Is it a processed "cheese FOOD product"?

On Edit: I'm not even sure what "cheese food" implies, but it doesn't sound good.

[Major Nikon]

44. It means it's kinda like cheese

But there's other stuff in it like latex.

[Nikia]

47. No it isn't

American cheese is "pasteurized process cheese". This is different from "pasteurized process cheese food" and "pasteurized cheese product". These are all different things with different definitions. "Pasteurized process cheese" has the most actual cheese in it. Those companies trying to make you believe that they are the same thing are just overcharging for an inferior product.
I was a quality professional in the processed cheese industry.

[Major Nikon]

48. I've made it before, and I know exactly what it is

It's cheese that's been processed with a thickening agent, milk, and salt as opposed to things like Velveeta which is not made from cheese at all. As far as it being inferior, that's purely subjective and greatly depends on what you're using it for. The reason why processed cheese was invented in the first place is because it melts better and doesn't separate as compared to pure cheese. Non-cheese products like Velveeta are cheaper to manufacture still, but cheaper doesn't necessarily mean inferior. Why go through the hassle of curdling milk, pressing the curds into cheese, aging, blending that cheese with other cheese, then processing it with milk and thickening agents when you can use the same basic ingredients along with some enzymes and bacterial agents to create the same taste and texture? That's why Kraft American Singles are no longer a blend of cheeses that are processed and is instead made in much the same way Velveeta is made.

[Nikia]

52. You can see the definitions here. Kraft had to change their label.

They made the change to save money just like their extra calcium formulation. They don't care about their quality because everyone seems to think that they are wonderful no matter what they do and will buy their product anyway. It does not really have the same taste and texture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processed_cheese
I worked for a company 2000-2005 that made American pasteurized process cheese with cheese, salt, and emulsifiers. It melted just fine. They bought the natural cheese from other companies. Some of it was waste cheese that would not otherwise have been sold. It's Wisconsin location made that convienient. It was not sold as slices, but generally sold in deli cases or in bulk to companies that would cut it into squares. Maybe, I am biased since Kraft was a competitor that seemed to win just because of their longstanding reputation rather than their actual product.

[Major Nikon]

53. There's a lot to be said for brand loyalty

But if you don't make a consistent product, brand loyalty will only take you so far. I actually prefer Velveeta slices between the two if I'm melting it for a burger or sandwich. They melt with the residual heat from burgers just off the grill and I think it makes for a better grilled cheese sandwich because it will stay in a melted state longer. If I'm making a cold sandwich, I prefer a decent American or Swiss cheese like Boar's Head or Land-o-lakes.

[OriginalGeek]

21. I remember when they were sliced but

not individually wrapped.


My dad used to buy that and shred it on a box grater for our chalupas.



I still buy Kraft cheese slices when I want to make birthday chalupas.

[HopeHoops]

24. I get Cooper or one of the other local (and actual) American cheeses - sliced, not wrapped.

I didn't have it for many years but I've found the REAL cheese is good with a fried egg and hot sauce on a flour tortilla. It's sort of become my standard breakfast/lunch. And we get eggs from one of my wife's coworkers. She has way too many chickens and gets way too many eggs so she's happy to give them away. My wife takes in a dollar and some of our fresh herbs in exchange. It works well. The flavor of naturally raised hen eggs is so much superior to the factory produced ones. The yolks are about twice as big and remind me of the eggs my grandmother used to get.

[OriginalGeek]

25. Until the day he died

my father-in-law loved to laugh at me and reminisce about the time before I married his daughter when I came over to their house for dinner and they had a basket of eggs on the table from his chicken coops out back. They were all various colors of brown and I picked one up and said "These are fresh? When do they paint 'em white?" Because I had never seen a brown egg and figured the white ones at the grocery were painted/dyed/bleached for marketing purposes. He laughed about that for the next 20 years. I swear he thought his daughter was marrying the dumbest fuck on the planet. But he let it happen anyway.

I kinda miss that old coot. And his eggs - the coops were too much for my mother-in-law to keep up with so she doesn't have them anymore.

[HopeHoops]

37. We've never dyed anything but brown eggs for Easter with our kids. They're pretty.

[arbusto_baboso]

29. Other. They are part of a satanic plot...

to poison Americans. They are not cheese in any meaningful manner, but petroleum by-product.

[whistler162]

31. Better than that garbage you get in Europe...

[GoneOffShore]

32. Quoi?

Excusez-moi, là soyez des milliers d'excellents fromages de l'Europe.

And apart from some of the good artisan cheese that is produced here, it is far superior to American, Industrial, processed cheese food.

[whistler162]

58. The only good cheese is Velvetta the rest tastes like

bovine leavings!

[GoneOffShore]

59. There is no accounting for taste.

You, sir or madam, obviously like the taste of petrochemicals.

One would probably get more nourishment and flavor from eating melted Lego bricks than from ingesting Velveeta.

[Swede]

33. Two slices on a freshly barbecued burger cannot be beat.

Can't.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

36. Hmmmmm 64 slices of American cheese!!

[HopeHoops]

38. Okay, which two of you voted for catching farts?

[Taverner]

43. Good on Cheap Burgers

What can I say?

[riderinthestorm]

45. Classic kid food. I think of it like iceberg lettuce and boxed pudding

I know others have been way more successful than I at getting their kids to love and enjoy gourmand foods but mine (and all the other gazillion kids that have come through my house) seem to have needed to start on the crap stuff before they morphed into savvy eaters.

Its akin to comfort food for them, they may LOVE homemade mac and cheese - prefer it actually - but they won't turn down Kraft boxed if its that's the only thing within their budget.

I've got a package of american singles in my fridge as we speak. That pkg takes a LONG time to disappear (and sometimes I use it as dog treats so they'll take meds) but sometimes I see my daughters sneak a wrapped cheese slice as a snack..... no biggie. Its AMERICAN right? Part of our cultural heritage like peanut butter imho

[harmonicon]

49. It's totally fine for what it is.

I sometimes buy it for things like putting on burgers. I like velveeta too, in the right situation. It's a sort of comfort food.

[HopeHoops]

50. Fried SPAM and Velveeta with iceburg lettuce and Miracle Whip on white bread - no crusts.

Classic American sandwich. Perhaps that's why the French make fun of us. And yes, I ate those as a kid. I also ate the crackers in a pack with the weird orange cheese-like substance and a little red paddle for scooping it out.

[harmonicon]

56. That sounds like a sandwich the French would love - really.

They don't quite understand American food, but they love all sorts of both ham and cheese. Grilled cheese made with velveeta is is my childhood sandwich, and I ate more of those sort of crackers that you're describing than I can contemplate. I must have had one of those in my lunch almost every day for about five years - all of elementary school.

[HopeHoops]

57. As I understand it, despite the "language police", they still call McFood "le BigMac".

[Kali]

51. Gramma K cheese!

my Mom was a full time, excellent stay-at-home mother. We almost never had junk food or convenience foods of any kind. She made almost everything from scratch. her mother was the same (although she did like a coke once in a while - in the 6 or 8 ounce glass bottles)

My father's mother however, worked (at least when I was a kid, maybe not so much when her kids were still at home) and she and that grandfather were really social so they had lots of cocktail parties and so forth so she was much more into "modern" convenience foods. individually wrapped sliced of plastic cheese was so fun for us kids in the summer after spending the whole morning in her pool.

I still call it Gramma K cheese, but I very rarely buy it.

[SOteric]

54. A write-in vote for: "That stuff is barely-flavoured food-grade wax..."

and holds no resemblance to actual cheese.

[HopeHoops]

55. Yeah, wax usually has a flavor. That's why we eat crayons in kindergarten.

And remember the white paste that was scented like mint?