# Why is american cheese orange?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 8, 2007, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-american-cheese-orange/407204 "2007-06-08T00:39:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-american-cheese-orange/407204/41 "2007-06-11T16:36:56Z")

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[QUOTE=pulykamell]  
Land O’ Lakes American is [also a process cheese,](http://www.landolakes.com/products/ViewProduct.cfm?ProductID=48108) like Kraft Deli Deluxe.  
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Perhaps, but it’s still far superior to those rain slicker squares you get from the dairy case.

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-american-cheese-orange/407204/42 "2007-06-11T17:24:41Z")

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[QUOTE=Guinastasia]  
Perhaps, but it’s still far superior to those rain slicker squares you get from the dairy case.  
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No argument here. That’s what I buy when I want to get easy melting cheese.

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**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-american-cheese-orange/407204/43 "2007-06-11T17:28:25Z")

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[QUOTE=Philster]  
I agree. American cheese is school-bus yellow.

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But the yellow of school buses usually is sort of orange-y. Pure yellow, IMO, would be about the color of a daffodil, or of the tulip shown [here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow). School buses, and taxis, seem to be more the color of the Lego bricks pictured directly below the tulip.

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**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-american-cheese-orange/407204/44 "2007-06-11T17:43:38Z")

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Why is 'green" cheese green? And what does one do with 'sapsago" cheese? (It is supplied in little rock-hard pellets). I’ve yet to see anyone use it.

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