# Not Real Cheese? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 12, 2002, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-real-cheese/97796 "2002-03-12T06:34:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2002, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-real-cheese/97796/21 "2002-03-17T04:49:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stinky \* > \*\*Sorry about the double post. [hyjack] Speaking of marketing tricks has any body seen the new colored ketchup? On the front of the bottle it says 20% more vitimin C than our regular ketchup. And on the back it has a footnote that says, 20% more vitimin C than our regular ketchup witch has 0% vitimin C. > you just have to love the people who comes up with this stuff!😃 \*\* So, since 20% more than 0 is still 0, the new ketchup still has no vitamin C. I find it hard to believe that they would try to get away with such a misleading claim. Are you sure you’re reading it correctly? ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2002, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-real-cheese/97796/22 "2002-03-17T07:20:03Z")
According to [this site](http://www.preparedfoods.com/archives/2001/2001_01/0101bbit.htm), vitamin C in ketchup is in fact a new thing – which suggests that it _does_ have more than 0% now. [Here’s a site](http://www.ketchupworld.com/index.html) that sells lots of different types of ketchup, in case this hijack has picqued your interest. 🙂 With regard to “Real” as a trademark: the USP&T Office lists 5,689 uses of the word in trademarks. None seem to match the claim that **Stinky** made (although my search was not exhaustive). ---
**Author:** ![Not\_A\_Tame\_Lion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e36b37/32.png) [@Not\_A\_Tame\_Lion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_A_Tame_Lion)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2002, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-real-cheese/97796/23 "2002-03-17T08:36:55Z")
As for the opening post… Are you really surprised that there are pizzas out there that have non-cheese cheese on them? You should check out the alleged cheeses at your local supermarket; if you read the label (and of course, you should _always_ read the label), you will find a lot of “pasteurized proccess cheese food product” masquerading as real cheese. Yes, it’s so disgusting they actually have to tell you that it’s ‘food’. Most of the cheeses in the deli sections are OK (the expensive, small producer stuff), but anything with a major company label on it, like Kraft, or anything “individually wrapped” is just plain plastic. I gag everytime I see someone buy that shit. And that’s how you mortally offend a cheese lover. Here endeth the rant. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2002, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-real-cheese/97796/24 "2002-03-17T22:16:51Z")
Just what is the dividing line between low grade mozzerella and high grade edible white glue? ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-real-cheese/97796/25 "2002-03-18T04:51:31Z")
> [@](#): > > **Out Pizza Contains > 100% Real Cheese** Wouldn’t that mean that the pizza contains nothing but cheese? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-real-cheese/97796.md?page=1)