Legally, in the US? Probably.
Try it on a European tourist as a prank.
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ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
White American Cheese … is there such a thing? … can it be called Cheese?
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blackbelt352@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It depends but technically yes. American cheese is pretty simple, one or multiple cheeses blended with sodium citrate and some milk to create a very smoothly melting cheese. I actually made some myself last night by melting a bunch of very sharp cheddar cheese into some milk and adding a few slices of a decent American cheese to get the sodium citrate. I basically made a really good borderline cheese whiz for the sandwiches I made.
Kraft Singles, (which is what everyone likely has in mind for plastic fake cheese) however don’t contain enough cheese as an ingredient to call the final product an actual cheese, there is a lot of milk powder added in that tips the ratios into cheese product territory.
sudo@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Made from white cheddar instead of yellow cheddar. Only difference is no annetto.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
It’s a process cheese product! My uncle used to work at a factory that made it so I know their process.
It was only about 40% cheese, and the cheese utilized was a blend of the bits left over from making things like cheese sticks. This was combined with milk, milk proteins, and several emulsifiers to keep it from separating into oil and solids as it solidifies and again if it’s melted.
It’s called a “pasteurized prepared cheese product” because it doesn’t contain enough cheese to legally call itself cheese or any variant of processed cheese.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Americans are starting to blur the line between food and edible biowaste
Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Starting? I was eating Kraft cheese product from between two plastic wrappers for sandwiches when I was a kid, and I'm damn old.
marcos@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“Emulsifier” can be a lot of things, but the rest of them are perfectly valid ingredients.
It’s just milky jello instead of cheese.
RBWells@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s a good grilled cheese cheese, and the standard cheese on Cuban Cheese Toast here. Taste slightly sharper than the yellow one. Good also for queso dip in a pinch. There is also a Swiss flavor white American cheese, that also gets used because it melts better than real Swiss. Not good.
And no they aren’t cheese, though made of mostly cheese, they are “pasteurized processed cheese food”.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Pawcohiccora is better than sodium citrate mammary secretions.
expatriado@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
American cheese without the colorant, thus perfectly healthy
db2@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
American cheese isn’t a bad thing when it’s the amalgam of several other cheeses. When it’s just oil and binders it isn’t even cheese though. There’s no good way to know before buying it since they can call both cheese.
gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
They cannot call both cheese, cheese is labelled as cheese and American cheese is labelled as “pasteurized process cheese product”
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
No, there is American cheese that is actual cheese, not just processed dairy product. Of course you won’t find someone like Kraft making it.
pipe01@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Do they not show the list of ingredients?
MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
On the package? Yes.
At a restaurant? Not usually.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
It's still cheese "product" though, right?
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It’s cheesy
trashboat@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
American cheese is a travesty, but with that said, most American cheese I’ve had has been eating Kraft singles as a kid… so I may just be biased