/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19870657
our labeling is weird and arbitrary

>>19870657
you will not find real cheese in most parts of america. your options are cheddar, mild cheddar, and sharp cheddar.

>>19870657
100%, Real, and Natural are not regulated descriptions by the USDA/FDA
They mean nothing at all in other words. Cheese however is a regulated term so you know what you are getting.

>>19870657
I think because of American FDA regulations,(demanding milk is pasteurised) real cheese in the USA is a bit of a novelty, hence the 'big deal' on marketing and packaging.

There is also a cultural element in that American dishes appear to just add cheese as an adornment (as in the case of 'melty' cheese) rather than a component of a meal; To be honest, it really works in the case of beefburgers but very little else.

>>19870657
They put that on pre sliced cheese because it's assumed "cheese" sold like that is just American Flavor Sandwich Slices.

>>19870657
>Why does every single brand of cheese print this on their packaging?
legal reasons from the dairy industry back in the 70s needing to have the real symbol on all packaging.

https://www.realseal.com/the-real-story/
>The California dairy industry developed the REAL® Seal in 1976 as a public service intended to combat the use of imitation cheeses on pizzas.

>>19870657
Real is a California dairy trademark.

>>19870657
America is a country built on the chemical industry, so fucking everything is artificial and fake and gay.

>with
keep your eyes peeled for similar keywords.
they make cheeses cheaper, especially shredded, by using fillers/synthetics.

>>19870901
Why do you luddites hate technological advancement so much? Improving food products with science is a good thing.

>>19870921
all fun and games until you get riddled with something like colon cancer.

>>19870921
Because you're only "improving" things on a singular dimension while making a fucked up nightmarescape on others.

>>19870935
>NOOOO! You can't just improve Cheddar Style pasteurized processed topping shreds so it melts when heated! This is a nightmare!
Enjoy your non-melty shreds, luddite.

Just guessing but if your competitor puts it on their packaging idiots will look at yours and think its fake cheese because it doesnt explicitly say real

luddites are based and correct.

>>19870657
I'm not sure I could point to a specific singular cause but between the late 40's and 70's there was a explosion of consumerism.
This was exacerbated by the refusal to put meaningful regulations on corporate marketing and laughably ineffective regulatory agencies like the FDA, USDA, etc failing to do anything more than rubber stamp whatever "regulations" the very businesses they were meant to oversee lobbied for.
As someone else said they like to use specific terminology as loopholes to get around accurate labeling. Be on the lookout for "made with", "contains", and "organic/all natural" as these terms have basically no legal definition.

>>19871020
'Made with' is definitely one that retards always misunderstand.
Personally I'm most offended by the negative advertising like 'Asbestos free'.
Also 'Diet' and other 'low nutrient' labels.

>>19871080
Yeah that's a good call. A lot of the shit like "BPA-free" "Ptoa/Ptfe-free" is quite literally just the manufacturer minutely changing the chemical formula of a product and saying "Hey now it's totally not the same thing!" For all intents and purposes it's still the same.
American business and regulatory structures owe a lot of their psychopathic tendencies to economists like Milton (((Friedman))) that pushed the bullshit idea that a companies only duty is to its shareholders, and the only regulatory agency should be "the free market forces".

>>19870657
>Why does every single brand of cheese print this on their packaging?

because faggots memed that american cheese is some sort of artifical chemical plastic abomination when in reality its just regular cheese emulsified with oil. Normies believe whatever they are told so they have to be told that their cheese is actually cheese. To be fair, it's traditionally made out of low quality cheese and cheese scraps but it is still 'real cheese' and always has been real cheese.

>>19870657
I like how creamy it is, try it in an omelette or a burger

>>19870921
>I like eating plastic
I don't, fuckface

>>19871143
>when in reality its just regular cheese emulsified with oil.
what ghetto stuff are you buying? there is no oil in stuff like kraft singles.

>>19871020
>organic
>these terms have basically no legal definition.

>literally what is usda organic

you STUPID fucking motherfucking dumbass

>>19870657

>>19872884
Literally the first result explains how it's full of shit, just like you.
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/health/diet-nutrition/a28224713/what-does-organic-mean/

>>19872886
The consumers are 100% to blame
Those labels probably started as a joke
>kek lets put plutonium and gluten free on our bottled water
>sale increase

>>19870953
Regular cheese melts too.

>>19870921
>improving
The only thing they try to improve are their profits while worsening everything else. They literally kill you for profit.

Imagine if one brand said that and the others didn't nobody would buy them.

>>19874916
>He wants to eat Stay Puft Absesto's Cereal
Ha jokes on you buddy Red Farm 4 Lyfe

>>19870657
American cheese is real cheese, kraft singles are fake cheese that is flavored to taste like American cheese

>>19870657
i don't know why you people act like we can't walk into any walmart in the country and buy a decent enough cheese

>>19870657
Post timestamp in front of a street address obsessed eurofag and I might give you a response.

>>19875793
he won't
honestly i don't even know where you find shit like >>19870953 >>19870817

Cheese is like good whiskey, I'm not buying it if there isn't an age statement on the packaging.

>>19875925
>basing whiskey by its age
do a few blind taste tests

>>19870657
american here, i fucking hate it here, the cheese selection is so shit and other options are $10 for something smaller than a baseball

the reason it says that cause "cheese food" is a common thing in america cause its legally not cheese, like american cheese which is not actually cheese since theres just substitutions

either way all most of commercial american cheese are processed and not real cheese regardless of it saying 100% real cheese and pouring milk in it doesnt make it an actual cheese

>>19876043
forgot to add that i tried camembert for the first time today and felt pure joy, it cost $4 for about a 3 inch wedge

>>19870657
Were you shopping at a gas station?

>>19876121
He wasn't here at all because he's just another obsessed subhuman

>>19870672
Completely false unless you live in in redneck central. I live in a random 60k Midwestern town (not in Wisconsin). My grocery store has an entire isle for imported cheese. Saying American sliced cheese is the only option is only true if you live in retardville where dollar general is your grocery store.

>>19876134
>redneck central
Redneck central had much better cheese than leftard central where I currently live.

>>19870806
>I think because of American FDA regulations,(demanding milk is pasteurised) real cheese in the USA is a bit of a novelty
You think wrong retard

>>19876194
Real cheese is a privilege, cant get any unless you actually look, even if you do it's expensive for even the smallest of pieces

>>19876134
>unless you live in in redneck central
you can't really get more Appalachian then where i live and the Ingles had a whole wall down the side of the store of different imported cheese at

>>19876134
I live 15 miles outside of the nearest town of 1000 and they still have imported and domestic cheese.

To answer ops question the manufacturer puts whatever combination of words on the bag that statistically sells more product, regardless of how inane or redundant it is.

>>19876208
Why do you feel the need to larp as a first-worlder, Deng?

>>19870657
Who the fuck goes to a fucking grocery store when on a business trip?

>>19876958
>To answer ops question the manufacturer puts whatever combination of words on the bag that statistically sells more product, regardless of how inane or redundant it is.
This, it's why you see all kinds of retarded shit labeled prominently as gluten free despite being products that would have no good reason to contain gluten and should therefore require no labeling as such. Manufacturers recognize that retarded people will buy more of their thing if they add dumb shit to labels that any reasonably intelligent person would never pay attention to.

>>19876959
go back to /pol/ faggot, crawl back into youre eastern europe shit hole, im surprised you even have an internet connection

>>19870657
Cause everything is a scam, and the u.s. is scam central. Look up "blue milk" or how every juice related product has to say what percentage of juice it has above the nutrition label.

>>19875732
>i don't know why you people act like we can't walk into any walmart in the country and buy a decent enough cheese
Or that there aren't plenty of dairies and cheesemakers all over the country. Or that American cheeses haven't won international awards.

>>19877124
How do you find them?

>>19877172
phone book
honestly most grocery stores have a second cheese section for specialty, imported and locally sourced cheeses.
My winn dixie sells locally made goods like tamales, fresh corn tortillas and Amish butter

>>19877038
Hellow dere new fren
/ck/ and /pol/ are the same board

for me it's government cheese

>>19877243
Wow phone books still exists. Don't forget other legacy media like the pennysaver. Sounds like wanting to fail. Where is the app? All I have for you is jewgle maps......and as always....don't feed the jewgle.

Because it's one thing to poo-poo menudo for tripe, or chicken feet as part of dim sum.

And yet, cheez...

>>19877243
Hell, if I go to my local Wegmans their cheese section alone is larger than the entire cold food section of most grocery stores and they've got a dedicated cheese monger on staff at all times just sitting there waiting to recommend things for you and offer samples.

>>19877434
Still don't know how Wegmans exists.

>>19877440
It's baffling. They also have a fucking enormous beer and wine section with a way better selection and more local stuff than total wine or any other place I've found, and they're constantly offering tastings for whatever new stuff they have.

I need to get out there more often but every time I go I end up spending like $400 stocking up on all kinds of shit I can't find anywhere else.

>>19877487
They opened the biggest store I've ever seen in a warehouse district around here and the fucking yuppie cucks flock to it. Not a house around for a mile. Maybe they are just marketing geniuses I can't see.

>>19870672
I will never understand why you retards keep telling blatant lies like this, who do you think you're fooling?

>>19870657
It's a litmus test for yuropoors and domestic retards. Our immigration system is pretty shit, so we feed all the tards equally with shitty oil.

>>19877517
you kinda answered your own question
its perfectly legal to live in a storage unit as long as you don't get caught

>>19877652
That's not happening much in the richest state, and certainly not in the center.
>military flag
>living like this
>navy
There are no bigger masochists

>>19870953
> now melts
gets me every time