Ha, holy shit. I would have gotten myself banned in that thread.
You probably don't have the stuff called "American cheese"; it's like Swiss cheese, it's the name for a variety, this is the stuff that is, like, milk solids and oil. It's an insult to both America and cheese. And if that wasn't bad enough, there's Velveeta and Kraft Singles, things that can't even be classified as cheese.
Anyway, I guess there was no Manchego or gruyere available at whatever fuckin' Walmart Josh was born and raised in. (I'm in one of those horrible pods myself right now. A weird film of suburban accretia orbiting a Walmart. Sam Walton got started in same obscure region as the Clintons, the same place Acxiom is headquartered, and both Acxiom and Walmart took off around the same time, terrorism and NAFTA suddenly coincided.) I'd be upset with him but the word "Yeltson" has enriched my life. yeltsin-girl.gif
@p@whereverbot@NonPlayableClown@mint Colby's an American cheese. It's not exactly the greatest in the world but it's not that oil slab you get from Kraft.
@p@mrsaturday@NonPlayableClown@mint@whereverbot if you look over the regulation section, you'll see that there are 3 distinctions when it comes to american cheese. Actual american cheese is yummy, usually a mix of cheddar & colby. the shitty kraft stuff and so on are "cheese food"s or worse, "cheese products." these are awful and disgusting regardless of if it's american cheese or not american cheese, real american cheese, is yummy
However if you want an American invented cheese to put on your freedom sandwich, here are some acceptable options: Colbyjack Montereyjack Pinconning Muenster Swiss (And if you count it as a distinct cheese different from the original, Vermont Cheddar)
also, I know the chemistry and food science enough to make my own emulsified cheese with fancier ingredients including slices of beer cheese made with things other than mild cheddar.
convenience and the comfort food nature of having a safe food which isn't difficult for my sensory processing difficulties and texture and flavor and autism in general, is a pleasant feature of using a known thing.
@mint@p@whereverbot@NonPlayableClown My local grocery store bakes bread every morning. Not all meat is processed in USDA slaughter houses. Seafood is processed locally at the store as well (catholics, yes I know you believe rodents and sea critters aren't actually animals and are some kind of separate entity because the Vatican a few centuries ago wanted people to stop starving their children, you need not reply). I also live near the Amish, so locally produced real cheese is readily available, albiet at a much higher price than regular cheeses, on the shelf.
> Not all meat is processed in USDA slaughter houses.
The man's mind is blown that USDA doesn't cover poultry. He thinks the USDA has the authority to issue subpoenas and that they're gonna demand he hand over the personal details of a guy on a forum that bought a cow from his friend. He smokin' reefers. 27.png
@p@whereverbot@NonPlayableClown@mint Calling that stuff cheese is like calling margarine "butter", you're just telling on yourself. >But Mr. Saturday, it melts nicer than cheddar Get butterkäse instead if you want melty cheese. I made grilled cheese with this stuff and it was almost liquid, I say almost because you can't get a two foot long cheese pull from liquid. There's more to cheese than Cheddar, Swiss, Mozzarella, and Kraft sloppa