What is the point of individually wrapping cheese slices in plastic, only to cover a bunch of them in more plastic?
What is the point of individually wrapping cheese slices in plastic, only to cover a bunch of them in more plastic?
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It feels like such a waste.
EDIT: This is the type of cheese I am referring to. It comes wrapped in a piece of plastic then bundled together with x more and all of them get covered in plastic
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I have never encountered this product. Can you give a brand/product name example?
So, what's the yellow stuff for? To keep the bags from sticking together?
"American cheese". I searched for an image and conveniently Wikipedia shows one with the clarification that it's an "American cheese single".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cheese
But, imagine ten or twenty of those individually wrapped slices wrapped together in another bit of plastic.
You can hit an image search for "American cheese singles" and find a lot more examples.
https://ibb.co/SVRjbyj https://ibb.co/SnSB5cV
This was bought from Aldi
Any cheese by Kraft labeled as "singles" would fit the bill. I've seen American, Swiss, and Mozzarella done this way. Italics as I cannot confirm other countries would consider it cheese.
check the labels folks, "Cheese food product" is called that because it cannot legally be called cheese.
I think that even in the US it is not considered cheese, but a cheese "product."
That's only because agriculture had really great lobbyists at one point. So we have really specific naming regulations.
It's just ground cheese with citrate.
Mmm pre chewed cheese!
I think it would be disingenuous to call it cheese since it has been processed, just like it is probably inappropriate to call a hot dog ground pork.
Pre chewed? Huh
Ya, maybe that is a little harsh. I admit that I have consumed this product 😬
Yes, it would be illegal to label it as cheese.
