Posted on 03/27/2023 8:35:01 AM PDT by Red Badger
Exactly... Id assume most other processed foods are dying for the very same reasons.
I grew up with grilled cheese on mayonnaise, but once I tasted grilled cheese with butter, I never went back.
Jut tell him it’s not real cheese, then give him some real cheese.......................
‘American Cheese’ is yet another ‘Frankenfood’ invented with leftovers from the Space Industry or whatever is left at the bottom of the barrel when they process oil. *SMIRK*
Right now I have a lovely 4-year aged Sharp Cheddar and a White Cheddar w/ Cranberries on hand.
And, I admit to having a container of ‘Merkt’s Cheese Spread’ but I’m turning THAT into Pimento Cheese. :)
My Body, My Cheese! (I need to find a t-shirt with that!)
When we find out who cut it, we’ll know who to blame ...
If its price has slid below $4/lb people will buy it.
And fast food chains alone will keep it alive.
My kids always get the Cowgirl Creamery cheese for us when we come to visit out there. It is very good!
Oh, I didn’t say people aren’t making that now. I don’t believe I ever hosted or attended a party in the 80s where that wasn’t served, though.
In the 80s, Ro-tel wasn’t readily available in grocery stores in Virginia where most of my family lived at the time. As a young adult, I visited them from Texas every Christmas. One year, I brought a couple of cans of Ro-tel with me and picked up a block of Velveeta, a can of cheddar cheese soup and some restaurant-style tortilla chips after I arrived.
I made that for my parents and siblings to munch on as we had evening drinks and they enthusiastically snapped it up.
After that, I had to mail cans of Ro-Tel to the family every so often until they finally started selling it up there.
What does that mean?
[I don’t think I’d like to meet any of these people. What a bunch of stuck-up pricks.]
I’m not a beer fan, but hubby loves it, the craft types.
I had my fill of beer in college. No more. Now I have rules for when I drink beer, and they are rarely met.
I do take a sip of my husband’s beer once in a while just to see if I will change my mind, but I don’t. It’s just not appealing to me.
I have 3 lbs of butter in my fridge at any given time, sometimes more. I use it in cooking a good bit, but also use EVOO, too. Things brown better in butter, especially mushrooms.
Dad loved grilled cheese with mayonnaise and sweet pickles, so that’s how I grew up eating it. I think butter is way more tasty, but to each his own.
Hard pass.
Gourmet opinions differ as to whether saltines or Ritz crackers are the appropriate delivery vehicle...
I bought one of my daughters the “Cowgirl Creamery Cookbook.” It is an excellent cookbook with great recipes!
—> And my recently dearly departed Germany shepherd half breed dog agreed.
Well, he was German, so there’s that…
Try replacing butter with Duke’s Mayonnaise. That’s really good.
Yup. Absolutely true. I would add that the tomato soup should be Campbells condensed soup. Just what grandma used to make!
Funny, just the other day the guy running the paint mixer at Ace hardware was telling me about when he worked at the Kraft factory where they made big blocks of American cheese for the US Government.
I would have to say that good ol’ American cheese absolutely has its place on burgers and cheese sandwiches and that sort of thing where its texture, saltiness, and flavor are a perfect fit.
And as mentioned in the article, American cheese is really just cheddar cheese with sodium citrate added to make it melt smoothly without the oil separating. A couple of Swiss guys actually invented it first but an American patented it and brought it to market first. If they had been a little quicker on the draw, maybe it would have been called some variation of Swiss Cheese...
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