/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>13419640
>yoohoo isn't chocolate milk
Yes it is, that's like saying Velveeta isn't cheese

>>13419678
velveeta is cheese
yoohoo is coco water

>>13419678
velveeta is actually just a cheese product not actual cheese

>>13419640
Waffles are crispy pancakes.

Yes, it's a chocolate-flavored whey beverage. I like the slight tang of the whey. It's totally different than actual chocolate milk.

>>13419640
How did you think they stored them un-refrigerated?

>>13421391
ultra pasteurized milk can sit on shelves unrefrigerated

>>13421433
no, that depends on packaging

aseptic packaging is shelf stable

>>13419678
Yoo-hoo's pretty close to milk to be fair. It uses the whey from milk.
>>13419640
>what are some other shocking culinary discoveries you have happened upon in your time?
During the early 2000s I remembered how I used to like Mr. Pibb a lot years earlier when it would be in vending machines at the different hotels I'd stay at during our family summer road trips. So I tried seeking it out again only to learn it had been completely replaced by Pibb Xtra which tastes nothing like real Mr. Pibb. Years after that I got the full story about how this happened right around when Coca-Cola took on a huge amount of the distribution work for Dr Pepper and that they likely gimped Mr. Pibb with this Pibb Xtra crap on purpose to avoid competing against a soda they now had a financial interest in no longer competing with.
Also learning about all the canned / microwavable food you *didn't* have to really do anything with when I was a kid and my dad told me that stuff was already cooked as part of its production and you were only heating it.
And how the US (inb4 "obsessed," I'm American too) somehow managed to ruin something as simple soy sauce by inventing a horrifying new alternative method where they just boil soybeans in hydrochloric acid to strip out the amino acids, neutralize it with sodium carbonate, dye the resulting hydrolyzed protein slurry brown, and add corn syrup and salt to it to churn out carcinogenic frankenstein soy sauce that should have taken several months of fermentation when done right compressed down instead to the span of hours. It's illegal to even call this "soy sauce" in Japan, but you see it all over the place in Chinese restaurants or with store bought La Choy "soy sauce."