…cheese. It’s awful. Who eats it? It’s like orange lard. How do they get rid of all the taste so completely?
I eat it.
I like Velveeta. I also like american process cheese food slices. IMHO, Kraft is best there.
Velveeta is good for cooking. The occasional slice is alright, but I don’t snack on it regularly, like I do with colby cheese. Colby is my personal fave.
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I love American Pasturized Process Cheese Food. Goes great on my egg sandwiches, not too bad for a quick grilled cheese, either. If I can get it, I’ll use real American cheese (have the guy at the deli slice up some Land-O-Lakes white american cheese…man that stuff is good). Maybe its that I was brought up on the stuff. Or maybe its because I eat like a seagull.
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Because you’re confusing what you’re buying in your local market with “American”, Andy.
I’m not saying that we have the same depth and richness of fine cheese tradition of your old world. But in all fairness, you’re living in Chicago. Say you were in London, you could get fine Stilton (swoon) and white cheddars and goat cheeses–IF you could pay for them.
Well, around heres (as we hicks say) you can send the good stuff to the city slickers to raise cash, or eat what they pay a gold mine to buy.
There are wonderful American cheeses. Try a creamy Maytag blue, white Vermont cheddar or the perfect, dreamy goat cheese (chevre to the EC folks) nearby where the goats don’t know from NAFTA.
Or hell, try some of the little, local delis and restaurants. Even out here in the boonies we have Greeks making killer feta, Scandahoovian types with string cheese, Mexicans with…oh, hell, fill in your own blanks.
Whole damned continent here, Android, with pissant, hungry, homesick folks from EVERYWHERE. The bad news is: grocery stores go for the blandest (lowest) denominator. The good news: venture out a bit and you’ll find blissful suprises even the foodie snobs haven’t discovered.
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One of the reasons I cook with it (I would never eat it alone) is that there always seems to be a slice around when you need it. Why does it take so long for it to go bad ? It is also nice to not have to cut a slice, just un-wrap it. That being said, it in no way compares to real cheese.
ever had cheese slices that are basically butter but look like cheese?
The Land O’ Lakes American cheese tastes pretty good. I don’t know about the lard taste, Android. After spending three years in England, I got familiar with all sorts of lard treats. Like a lot of the posters have said, “American Cheese” runs the gamut of very good quality to shit that gets sprayed out of a can.
BTW, can you still see the Indian princess’ tits on a Land O’ Lakes butter package when you fold it just right, or have the PC Police shut down that little joy in life as well?
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People seem to be confusing “American cheese” with “cheese made in America” (and also “American processed cheese food”).
The processed cheese food stuff is a food oil based emulsion that resembles cheese. That’s why it lasts so long without going bad.
Real American cheese may be kinda bland, but some people like that. (Actually, I’ll eat it on a sandwich.)
Oh, if there was any misconception, I was talking particularly about the stuff sold as ‘American Cheese’, not cheese produced in the US. Some of it’s rather good.
mmm easy cheese.
what could be better than cheese in a can??
Any similarity between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
Oh, why did I read this? Now I’m desparate for some Vermont Crowley. Or that Armenian-style string cheese…
American cheese does a bland flavor that is not helped by the Pasteurized Process Cheese Foods that imitate it. A lot of places have dairy areas where you can get fresh cheese that will set you off. I usually head for the Watonga Cheese shop. The “cheese curds” are a good place to start.
Or, you can mail order from Wisconsin. Don’t give up just (incoming pun) because your supermarket sells (duck and cover!) RATTY CHEESE!
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You don’t like American cheese? Then what else do you put on a grilled cheese sandwich?!? A cheeseburger? Just don’t say swiss (yuck).